Bibliothèque De Lyster (Graziella-Ouellet) is Lyster’s public library

It sits 1.2 km from the centre of Lyster. No library board reports for Lyster alone: its libraries belong to a county or regional system, whose figures cover many towns.

C⁻Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

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Libraries

Charities

1.2 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Behind Lyster’s civic life grade

Lyster’s civic life grade is C−. Lyster has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Lyster’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own CCharities1.2 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

2 registered charities are based in Lyster, by mailing address

That is 1.2 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%

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.

The libraries

Lyster’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Lyster.

1.2kmBibliothèque De Lyster (Graziella-Ouellet)Directions →

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 Lyster

Does Lyster have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque De Lyster (Graziella-Ouellet).

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).