Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau logs 7.3 visits per person served, more than 87% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Laval’s: Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau serves all 458,981 people of the city, Saint-François among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
CCivic life#199 of 507 in QuebecSaint-François’s civic life grade, input by input
Saint-François gets a C for civic life, #199 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Saint-François 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.
425 registered charities are based in Laval, by mailing address
There is no count for Saint-François on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. It works out to 0.9 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%
Across Quebec, 25.2% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 24.0% to 26.4%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 9,128 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Saint-François’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Saint-François.
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 Saint-François.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-François
Does Saint-François have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau.
How busy is Bibliothèque Marius-Barbeau?
It counted 3,331,901 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).