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Libraries · Fogo Island

Fogo Island has one public library, Fogo Island Public Library

It stands 5.2 km from the centre of Fogo Island. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in Newfoundland and Labrador, so this page has none for Fogo Island.

B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Libraries
1
Charities
4
2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Fogo Island’s civic life grade weighs

Civic life in Fogo Island grades B+. Fogo Island has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

B+
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Fogo Island’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

4 registered charities are based in Fogo Island, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; the median is 1.4 for Newfoundland and Labrador towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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

34.8%

The 2023 survey gives Newfoundland and Labrador one volunteering rate for all its towns, 34.8% (between 31.7% and 38.0%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Fogo Island’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Fogo Island.

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 Fogo Island

Does Fogo Island have a public library?

Yes: Fogo Island Public Library.

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).