Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0More visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Bibliothèque Langelier counts 6.5
Louis-Riel is served by Bibliothèque Langelier, the library of all of Montréal, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,948,747 people. These are 2025 figures, the library’s own yearly return to Quebec’s statistics.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Louis-Riel’s civic life grade weighs
Louis-Riel gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Louis-Riel 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.
Montréal mailing addresses hold 3,830 registered charities
There is no count for Louis-Riel on its own: the charities are those of all of Montréal. Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 25.2% of people in Quebec volunteered formally (likely 24.0% to 26.4%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 34,653 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Langelier in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Louis-Riel’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Louis-Riel.
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 Louis-Riel isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Louis-Riel
Does Louis-Riel have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Langelier.
How busy is Bibliothèque Langelier?
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).