Photo: Kossin · CC BY-SA 3.0Bibliothèque Camille-Laurin draws 1.2 visits per person served, behind 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
A single building, Bibliothèque Camille-Laurin, serves 6,666 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
D−Civic life#484 of 507 in QuebecCharlemagne’s civic life grade, input by input
Charlemagne gets a D− for civic life, #484 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Charlemagne has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Charlemagne mailing addresses hold 4 registered charities
That is 0.6 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.
25.2%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Quebec as a whole: 25.2% volunteered formally in 2023, between 24.0% and 26.4%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 22 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Camille-Laurin in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Charlemagne’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Charlemagne, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Charlemagne
Does Charlemagne have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Camille-Laurin.
How busy is Bibliothèque Camille-Laurin?
It counted 8,080 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: Statistiques des bibliothèques publiques du Québec, 2025. 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).