Photo: Ross Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0More visits per person served than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries: Gatineau public library counts 8.4
Du Parc is served by Gatineau public library, the library of all of Gatineau, so the figures here are the city’s, for 302,616 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecBehind Du Parc’s civic life grade
With a C+, Du Parc ranks #164 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Du Parc: 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.
Gatineau mailing addresses hold 354 registered charities
There is no count for Du Parc on its own: the charities are those of all of Gatineau. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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.
Some 6,930 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Gatineau public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.8 km from Du Parc
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Du Parc.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Du Parc or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Du Parc
Does Du Parc have a public library?
Not in Du Parc: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque Lucien-Lalonde, in Lac-des-Fées.
How busy is Gatineau public library?
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).