Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis · CC BY-SA 4.0At 8.4 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron is busier than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Gatineau’s: Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron serves all 302,616 people of the city, Du Plateau among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecWhat Du Plateau’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Du Plateau ranks #164 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Du Plateau.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
354 registered charities are based in Gatineau, by mailing address
There is no count for Du Plateau 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
25.2%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 25.2% of people across Quebec in 2023, likely 24.0% to 26.4%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 6,930 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron, in the library’s own counts.
Du Plateau’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Du Plateau, as the crow flies.
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 Du Plateau; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Du Plateau
Does Du Plateau have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron.
How busy is Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron?
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).