Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque de l'Île des soeurs counts 6.5
Bibliothèque de l'Île des soeurs serves the whole of Montréal, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,948,747 people, Ile-des-Soeurs among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecIle-des-Soeurs’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Ile-des-Soeurs grades B−: #14 of the 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 Ile-des-Soeurs.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
3,830 registered charities are based in Montréal, by mailing address
There is no count for Ile-des-Soeurs on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. It works out to 2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Quebec at 25.2% in 2023, somewhere between 24.0% and 26.4%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque de l'Île des soeurs in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Ile-des-Soeurs’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Ile-des-Soeurs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Ile-des-Soeurs’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Ile-des-Soeurs
Does Ile-des-Soeurs have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque de l'Île des soeurs.
How busy is Bibliothèque de l'Île des soeurs?
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).