Laird has no public library of its own; the nearest is Township of St. Joseph Public Library, 12 km away

After it comes Arthur Wishart Library / West Wing (Sault Ste. Marie), 19 km away.

C⁻Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

Directions Nearest libraries

No figures to show. The 2024 statistics list Laird public library, but without visits, loans or cards for it.

Civic life grade

Laird’s civic life grade, input by input

Laird gets a C− for civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Laird.

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

D⁻Library visits0 per resident · Ontario towns 4.5 C⁺Charities0 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁺Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

No registered charity gives a Laird mailing address

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

32.1%

One figure covers all of Ontario: in 2023, 32.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 31.0% and 33.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 12 km from Laird

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

12kmTownship of St. Joseph Public LibrarySt. JosephDirections →19kmArthur Wishart Library / West WingSault Ste. MarieDirections →22kmJames L. McIntyre Centennial LibrarySault Ste. MarieWebsite →35kmPrince Twp Public LibraryPrinceDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Laird

Does Laird have a public library?

Not within Laird itself: the closest is Township of St. Joseph Public Library, in St. Joseph.

Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. 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).