Photo: railfan 44 · Public domainFort St. James has one public library, Fort St. James Public Library
Fort St. James Public Library serves 4,335 people, more than Fort St. James alone, so its figures cover the wider area. It counted 5.8 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
ACivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringFort St. James’s civic life grade, input by input
Fort St. James gets a A for civic life. Fort St. James has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
14 registered charities are based in Fort St. James, by mailing address
It works out to 9.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
36.9%
36.9% of people in British Columbia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.2% and 38.7%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 68 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Fort St. James Public Library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Fort St. James’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Fort St. James.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Fort St. James
Does Fort St. James have a public library?
Yes: Fort St. James Public Library.
How busy is Fort St. James Public Library?
It counted 24,942 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).