Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque Reginald-Dawson draws 13 visits per person served, ahead of 95% of Quebec’s town libraries
A single building, Bibliothèque Reginald-Dawson, serves 22,396 people. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#114 of 507 in QuebecBehind Mont-Royal’s civic life grade
Mont-Royal gets a C+ for civic life, #114 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. 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 Mont-Royal.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
32 registered charities are based in Mont-Royal, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.4; the median is 1.4 for Quebec towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Quebec as a whole: 25.2% volunteered formally in 2023, between 24.0% and 26.4%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 797 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Reginald-Dawson in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Mont-Royal’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Mont-Royal, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Mont-Royal; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mont-Royal
Does Mont-Royal have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Reginald-Dawson.
How busy is Bibliothèque Reginald-Dawson?
It counted 290,811 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).