Photo: outofthought · CC BY-SA 3.0ORL: Lake Country Branch and Oyama Branch are Lake Country’s two public libraries
No library board reports for Lake Country alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.
CCivic life#246 of 254 in British ColumbiaLake Country’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Lake Country grades C: #246 of the 254 towns graded in British Columbia. Lake Country 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.
11 registered charities give a Lake Country mailing address
That is 0.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.2 in the typical British Columbia town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
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.
2 public libraries in Lake Country
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lake Country.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lake Country
Does Lake Country have a public library?
Yes, 2: ORL: Lake Country Branch and Oyama Branch.
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).