Photo: Simon Villeneuve · CC BY-SA 3.0Lac-Mégantic public library logs 13.2 visits per person served, more than 95% of Quebec’s town libraries
Lac-Mégantic public library serves 5,955 people from a single building. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
BCivic life#7 of 507 in QuebecWhat Lac-Mégantic’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Lac-Mégantic grades B: #7 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Lac-Mégantic has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
18 registered charities are based in Lac-Mégantic, by mailing address
That is 3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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.
About 215 visits a day
What Lac-Mégantic public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Lac-Mégantic’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Lac-Mégantic, 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 Lac-Mégantic; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Lac-Mégantic
Does Lac-Mégantic have a public library?
Yes: Médiathèque Nelly-Arcan.
How busy is Lac-Mégantic public library?
It counted 78,551 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).