Photo: SamuelFreli · CC BY-SA 3.0Bibliotheque Gabrielle-Giroux-Bertrand is Cowansville’s public library
A single building, Bibliotheque Gabrielle-Giroux-Bertrand, serves 16,906 people. It counted 3.1 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
CCivic life#198 of 507 in QuebecBehind Cowansville’s civic life grade
Civic life in Cowansville grades C: #198 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Cowansville 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.
35 registered charities give a Cowansville mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
25.2%
In 2023, 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 24.0% and 26.4%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 144 visits on an average day
What Bibliotheque Gabrielle-Giroux-Bertrand counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Cowansville’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Cowansville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cowansville
Does Cowansville have a public library?
Yes: Bibliotheque Gabrielle-Giroux-Bertrand.
How busy is Bibliotheque Gabrielle-Giroux-Bertrand?
It counted 52,598 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).