Lac-Etchemin has one public library, Bibliothèque L'Élan

It sits 0.3 km from the centre of Lac-Etchemin. No library board reports for Lac-Etchemin alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

CCivic life#217 of 507 in Quebec

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Charities

5.1 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Behind Lac-Etchemin’s civic life grade

With a C, Lac-Etchemin ranks #217 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Lac-Etchemin has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Lac-Etchemin’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own BCharities5.1 per 1,000 · Quebec towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁻Volunteering25.2% of residents · all of Quebec, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

21 registered charities give a Lac-Etchemin mailing address

That is 5.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.

Volunteering

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.

The libraries

Lac-Etchemin’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lac-Etchemin.

0.3kmBibliothèque L'ÉlanDirections →

How to read these numbers

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-Etchemin

Does Lac-Etchemin have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque L'Élan.

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).