VIRL: Sidney / North Saanich Branch is Sidney’s public library

The library is 0.2 km from the centre of Sidney. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Sidney in particular.

ACivic life#17 of 254 in British Columbia

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Charities

3.3 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Behind Sidney’s civic life grade

With a A, Sidney ranks #17 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Sidney has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Sidney’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own ACharities3.3 per 1,000 · British Columbia towns 1.2 · Canada 1.4 B⁺Volunteering36.9% of residents · all of British Columbia, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

44 registered charities are based in Sidney, by mailing address

It works out to 3.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. 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.

Volunteering

36.9%

Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 36.9% of British Columbia’s people in 2023, give or take (35.2% to 38.7%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Sidney’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sidney.

0.2kmVIRL: Sidney / North Saanich BranchWebsite →

How to read these numbers

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 Sidney

Does Sidney have a public library?

Yes: VIRL: Sidney / North Saanich 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).