Photo: Roncanada · CC BY-SA 4.0L'Ancienne-Lorette’s public library is Bibliothèque Marie-Victorin
Bibliothèque Marie-Victorin serves 17,862 people from a single building. Visits ran to 4.3 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C−Civic life#274 of 507 in QuebecL'Ancienne-Lorette’s civic life grade, input by input
L'Ancienne-Lorette gets a C− for civic life, #274 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. L'Ancienne-Lorette 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.
L'Ancienne-Lorette mailing addresses hold 10 registered charities
It works out to 0.6 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 211 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Marie-Victorin in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
L'Ancienne-Lorette’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of L'Ancienne-Lorette.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Visitors and people from nearby towns are in the count too; how many live in L'Ancienne-Lorette isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in L'Ancienne-Lorette
Does L'Ancienne-Lorette have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Marie-Victorin.
How busy is Bibliothèque Marie-Victorin?
It counted 77,171 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).