Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0At 6.5 visits per person served, Montréal public library is busier than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
Cecil-P.-Newman is served by Montréal public library, the library of all of Montréal, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,948,747 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecCecil-P.-Newman’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Cecil-P.-Newman grades B−: #14 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Cecil-P.-Newman: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Montréal mailing addresses hold 3,830 registered charities
There is no count for Cecil-P.-Newman on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. That is 2 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%
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 34,653 visits on an average day
What Montréal public library counted in 2025, as the library reported it.
Cecil-P.-Newman’s 2 public libraries
In order of distance from the centre of Cecil-P.-Newman, 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 Cecil-P.-Newman; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Cecil-P.-Newman
Does Cecil-P.-Newman have a public library?
Yes, 2: Bibliothèque L’Octogone and Bibliothèque l'Octogone.
How busy is Montréal public library?
It counted 12,648,282 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).