Guest, Sign inJoin
Channel Head Lighthouse (Port aux Basques, NL)Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0
Libraries · Channel-Port aux Basques

No public library stands in Channel-Port aux Basques: the closest, Codroy Valley Public Library, is 31 km away

Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in Newfoundland and Labrador, so this page has none for Channel-Port aux Basques.

C+Civic life#16 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Civic life grade

Behind Channel-Port aux Basques’s civic life grade

Channel-Port aux Basques gets a C+ for civic life, #16 of 32 towns graded in Newfoundland and Labrador. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Channel-Port aux Basques has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

C+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Channel-Port aux Basques’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

3 registered charities give a Channel-Port aux Basques mailing address

It works out to 0.9 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Newfoundland and Labrador town has 1.4 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.

Volunteering

34.8%

In 2023, 34.8% of people in Newfoundland and Labrador volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 31.7% and 38.0%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 31 km from Channel-Port aux Basques

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Channel-Port aux Basques.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Channel-Port aux Basques

Does Channel-Port aux Basques have a public library?

Channel-Port aux Basques has none mapped; the closest public library is Codroy Valley Public Library, in Division No. 4, Subdivision A.

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).