No public library stands in Messines: the closest, Bibliothèque De Bouchette, is 6.5 km away

Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Messines in particular.

B⁻Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering

Civic life grade

What Messines’s civic life grade weighs

Messines’s civic life grade is B−. A civic life grade needs two of its three inputs, and Messines has charities and volunteering, though not library visits.

B⁻

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

–Library visitsNo library board of its own A⁻Charities1.8 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

Messines mailing addresses hold 3 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.

Volunteering

25.2%

The whole province shares one estimate: 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023 (between 24.0% and 26.4%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The closest is 6.5 km from Messines

In order of distance from the centre of Messines, as the crow flies.

6.5kmBibliothèque De BouchetteDirections →8.9kmBibliothèque De Blue SeaDirections →12kmBibliothèque Paulette-Huneault-SiroisDéléageWebsite →15kmBibliothèque De Maniwaki/Deleage/Egan-SudManiwakiDirections →25kmBibliothèque De AumondDirections →

How to read these numbers

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 Messines

Does Messines have a public library?

Not in Messines: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque De Bouchette, in Quebec.

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).