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Photo: Unknown Unknown · Public domainBibliothèque Maisonneuve logs 6.5 visits per person served, more than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Montréal’s: Bibliothèque Maisonneuve serves all 1,948,747 people of the city, Maisonneuve among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
B−Civic life#14 of 507 in QuebecWhat Maisonneuve’s civic life grade weighs
Maisonneuve gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Maisonneuve 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 Maisonneuve 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. 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 34,653 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Maisonneuve, in the library’s own counts.
Maisonneuve’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Maisonneuve, as the crow flies.
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 Maisonneuve isn’t recorded.
Questions about the library and civic life in Maisonneuve
Does Maisonneuve have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Maisonneuve.
How busy is Bibliothèque Maisonneuve?
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).