Bedford’s public library is Bibliothèque Léon-Maurice-Côté de Bedford

From the centre of Bedford, it is 0.9 km away. Bedford has no library board of its own in the provincial statistics, so no visit or loan figures appear here.

C⁺Civic life#160 of 507 in Quebec

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4.9 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

What Bedford’s civic life grade weighs

Bedford gets a C+ for civic life, #160 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Bedford has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁺Charities4.9 per 1,000 · Quebec towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁻Volunteering25.2% of residents · all of Quebec, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Bedford mailing addresses hold 14 registered charities

That is 4.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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

25.2%

25.2% of people in Quebec did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 24.0% and 26.4%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Bedford’s public library

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

0.9kmBibliothèque Léon-Maurice-Côté de BedfordDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Bedford

Does Bedford have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque Léon-Maurice-Côté de Bedford.

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).