Photo: MTLskyline · CC BY-SA 3.0Bibliothèque Commémorative Pettes is Lac-Brome’s public library
A single building, Bibliothèque Commémorative Pettes, serves 6,302 people. Visits ran to 1.9 per person served in 2025. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
CCivic life#233 of 507 in QuebecWhat Lac-Brome’s civic life grade weighs
Lac-Brome gets a C for civic life, #233 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. 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 Lac-Brome.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
30 registered charities give a Lac-Brome mailing address
It works out to 4.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Quebec as a whole: 25.2% volunteered formally in 2023, between 24.0% and 26.4%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Commémorative Pettes, in the library’s own counts.
Lac-Brome’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Lac-Brome, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lac-Brome
Does Lac-Brome have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Commémorative Pettes.
How busy is Bibliothèque Commémorative Pettes?
It counted 12,242 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).