Photo: Gaetan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche logs 8.4 visits per person served, more than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Gatineau’s: Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche serves all 302,616 people of the city, La Cité 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 La Cité’s civic life grade
With a C+, La Cité ranks #164 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for La Cité: 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 are based in Gatineau, by mailing address
There is no count for La Cité 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 25.2% of Quebec’s people in 2023, give or take (24.0% to 26.4%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 6,930 visits a day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche, in the library’s own counts.
La Cité’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of La Cité.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from La Cité or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in La Cité
Does La Cité have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche.
How busy is Bibliothèque Guy-Sanche?
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).