Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Bibliothèque Armand-Cardinal logs 6.6 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Bibliothèque Armand-Cardinal has one location for the 19,444 people it serves. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
C+Civic life#159 of 507 in QuebecWhat Mont-Saint-Hilaire’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Mont-Saint-Hilaire ranks #159 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Mont-Saint-Hilaire has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
25 registered charities are based in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, by mailing address
That is 1.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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.
25.2%
Across Quebec, 25.2% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 24.0% to 26.4%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 349 visits on an average day
What Bibliothèque Armand-Cardinal counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Mont-Saint-Hilaire.
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 Mont-Saint-Hilaire isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Does Mont-Saint-Hilaire have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Armand-Cardinal.
How busy is Bibliothèque Armand-Cardinal?
It counted 127,513 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).