Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAt 8.4 visits per person served, Gatineau public library is busier than 89% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Gatineau’s: Gatineau public library serves all 302,616 people of the city, Les Golfs among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#164 of 507 in QuebecLes Golfs’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C+, Les Golfs 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 Les Golfs.
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 Les Golfs 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%
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.
Some 6,930 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Gatineau public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 3.2 km from Les Golfs
In order of distance from the centre of Les Golfs, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Les Golfs.
Questions about the library and civic life in Les Golfs
Does Les Golfs have a public library?
No, but Bibliothèque Donalda-Charron in Du Plateau is the nearest public library to Les Golfs.
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).