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Libraries · Sainte-Dorothée

Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault draws 7.3 visits per person served, ahead of 87% of Quebec’s town libraries

The library figures on this page are Laval’s: Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault serves all 458,981 people of the city, Sainte-Dorothée among them. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.

CCivic life#199 of 507 in Quebec

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Visits a year

3,331,901

7.3 per person served

Libraries

Charities

425

0.9 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

What Sainte-Dorothée’s civic life grade weighs

With a C, Sainte-Dorothée ranks #199 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Sainte-Dorothée has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Sainte-Dorothée’s overall grade.

ALibrary visits7.3 per resident · Quebec towns 6.5 DCharities0.9 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

Laval mailing addresses hold 425 registered charities

There is no count for Sainte-Dorothée on its own: the charities are those of all of Laval. That is 0.9 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

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.

A year at the library

Some 9,128 visits on an average day

What Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault counted in 2025, as the library reported it.

3,331,901

in-person visits

7.3 per person served

Every week64,075visits

458,981 people served

The libraries

Sainte-Dorothée’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sainte-Dorothée.

0.4kmBibliothèque Yves-ThériaultDirections →

How to read these numbers

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 Sainte-Dorothée isn’t recorded.

Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Dorothée

Does Sainte-Dorothée have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault.

How busy is Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault?

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).