No public library stands in Boissevain: the closest, Lakeland Regional Library, is 29 km away

After it comes Bren Del Win Centennial Library (Deloraine-Winchester), 32 km away. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in Manitoba, so this page has none for Boissevain.

A⁺Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Civic life grade

Boissevain’s civic life grade, input by input

Boissevain gets a A+ for civic life. Boissevain has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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

–Library visitsNo open library statistics in Manitoba A⁺Charities9.7 per 1,000 · Manitoba towns 2.1 · Canada 1.4 A⁺Volunteering38.3% of residents · all of Manitoba, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Boissevain mailing addresses hold 23 registered charities

It works out to 9.7 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Manitoba town has 2.1 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

38.3%

One figure covers all of Manitoba: in 2023, 38.3% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.6% and 41.1%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 29 km from Boissevain

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

29kmLakeland Regional LibraryKillarneyWebsite →32kmBren Del Win Centennial LibraryDeloraine-WinchesterDirections →43kmGrassland Public LibraryGrasslandDirections →45kmGlenwood & Souris Regional LibrarySourisDirections →

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 Boissevain

Does Boissevain have a public library?

There isn’t one in Boissevain; people there use libraries such as Lakeland Regional Library, in Killarney.

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).