Photo: Philippe Du Berger from Montréal · CC BY 2.0Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau draws 6.5 visits per person served, ahead of 84% of Quebec’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Montréal’s: Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau serves all 1,948,747 people of the city, Saint-Édouard 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 QuebecBehind Saint-Édouard’s civic life grade
Civic life in Saint-Édouard 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 Saint-Édouard.
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 Saint-Édouard 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 25.2% of people across Quebec in 2023, likely 24.0% to 26.4%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau, in the library’s own counts.
Saint-Édouard’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Saint-Édouard, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Saint-Édouard’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Saint-Édouard
Does Saint-Édouard have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau.
How busy is Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau?
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).