Photo: Minoumi · CC BY 3.0Matane has one public library, Bibliothèque municipale Fonds de solidarité FTQ
Bibliothèque municipale Fonds de solidarité FTQ serves 14,436 people from a single building. It counted 3.9 in-person visits per person served in 2025. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
CCivic life#219 of 507 in QuebecMatane’s civic life grade, input by input
With a C, Matane ranks #219 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Matane.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
23 registered charities are based in Matane, by mailing address
That is 1.6 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 25.2% of Quebec’s people in 2023, give or take (24.0% to 26.4%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 154 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque municipale Fonds de solidarité FTQ, in the library’s own counts.
Matane’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Matane.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Matane
Does Matane have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque municipale Fonds de solidarité FTQ.
How busy is Bibliothèque municipale Fonds de solidarité FTQ?
It counted 56,333 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).