Photo: Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0VIRL: Cortes Island Branch and Cortes Island Branch are Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s two public libraries
Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Electoral Area B, Strathcona in particular.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringElectoral Area B, Strathcona’s civic life grade, input by input
Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s civic life grade is B. Electoral Area B, Strathcona 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.
No registered charity gives a Electoral Area B, Strathcona mailing address
Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
2 public libraries in Electoral Area B, Strathcona
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Electoral Area B, Strathcona.















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 Electoral Area B, Strathcona
Does Electoral Area B, Strathcona have a public library?
Yes, 2: VIRL: Cortes Island Branch and Cortes Island 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).