Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris draws 8.4 visits per person served, ahead of 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris serves the whole of Gatineau, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 302,616 people, Des Explorateurs among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecBehind Des Explorateurs’s civic life grade
With a C+, Des Explorateurs ranks #164 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Des Explorateurs: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
354 registered charities give a Gatineau mailing address
There is no count for Des Explorateurs on its own: the charities are those of all of Gatineau. That is 1.2 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 6,930 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris, in the library’s own counts.
Des Explorateurs’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Des Explorateurs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Des Explorateurs; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Des Explorateurs
Does Des Explorateurs have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris.
How busy is Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris?
It counted 2,529,593 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).