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Quesnel drinking water hardness is 179 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#326 of 343
34% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Quesnel packs 7 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Quesnel from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Quesnel.
Quesnel sits at City Score rank #326 with a standing of 34%, from 7 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #296 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #67 of 343 at 229 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #144 of 343 (10.50 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Quesnel.
Wood truss pedestrian span and Riverfront Trail centerpiece between Downtown and West Quesnel. Night lighting marks holidays when the array
Municipal museum stop for local photo history and exhibits such as Mandy the Haunted Doll. A solid rainy-day counterweight to the trail.
The 1929 walking bridge linked Downtown and West Quesnel until Moffat Bridge opened for vehicles in 1971.
Where Quesnel sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Quesnel orients around the Fraser River. Downtown meets West Quesnel across the Fraser River Footbridge, the wood Howe truss that began as a 1929 traffic span and now anchors the Riverfront Trail as a pedestrian landmark. Heritage pages still point to Carson Avenue and Front Street on the east bank and North Fraser Drive on the west. When Moffat Bridge took vehicles in 1971, the old deck stayed as the town's favourite crossing, complete with programmable lights for holidays when the array cooperates and the river below stays in view.
July belongs to Billy Barker Days at LeBourdais Park, a multi-day stage and midway weekend the Observer covers like civic weather. The 50th annual festival in 2026 keeps the third full weekend of July marked on every fridge magnet in town, from parade chairs on Front Street to Kids Day in the park. Quesnel and District Museum and Archives keeps Mandy the Haunted Doll and early photo collections in the same heritage conversation as the walking bridge and the old horses-must-not-exceed-walking-pace sign lore.
City headlines toggle between Johnston Bridge rehabilitation and Vaughan Street construction while summer wildfire desks fill the Cariboo Observer. Fire season is not abstract here. Regional blaze coverage sits beside hospital auxiliary volunteer drives and parade photos from Billy Barker weekend. Locals still give directions as Downtown or West Quesnel side, then ask whether you are walking the Riverfront Trail or driving Moffat across the Fraser. Construction season on Johnston Bridge is another reminder that crossing the Fraser still shapes the week.
Drawn from City of Quesnel - Fraser River Footbridge, City of Quesnel - Fraser River Walking Bridge, Billy Barker Days, Quesnel Cariboo Observer.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats
Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Growth · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Quesnel in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Fraser River Footbridge is the centerpiece of the Riverfront Trail and is described by the city as the longest wood truss walking bridge in the world.
The 1929 walking bridge linked Downtown and West Quesnel until Moffat Bridge opened for vehicles in 1971.
Billy Barker Days fills LeBourdais Park on the third full weekend of July, marking its 50th annual festival in 2026.
Quesnel Museum pages highlight Mandy the Haunted Doll among interactive heritage exhibits.
Wood truss pedestrian span and Riverfront Trail centerpiece between Downtown and West Quesnel. Night lighting marks holidays when the array cooperates.
Home ground for Billy Barker Days stages, midway, and Kids Day. July weekends in Quesnel usually start here.
Municipal museum stop for local photo history and exhibits such as Mandy the Haunted Doll. A solid rainy-day counterweight to the trail.
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