Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Mary's has one public library, Sherbrooke Library
It sits 7 km from the centre of St. Mary's. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in Nova Scotia, so this page has none for St. Mary's.
A+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind St. Mary's’s civic life grade
St. Mary's’s civic life grade is A+. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for St. Mary's, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
26 registered charities give a St. Mary's mailing address
It works out to 11.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Nova Scotia town has 1.1 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.
37.0%
37.0% of people in Nova Scotia did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 34.3% and 39.8%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
St. Mary's’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of St. Mary's.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in St. Mary's
Does St. Mary's have a public library?
Yes: Sherbrooke 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).