Photo: Archives de la Ville de Montréal - VM166-R3209-2-022. · Public domainMore visits per person served than 84% of Quebec’s town libraries: Montréal public library counts 6.5
Snowdon 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 QuebecBehind Snowdon’s civic life grade
Snowdon gets a B− for civic life, #14 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. Snowdon 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 Snowdon 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. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 25.2% of Quebec’s people in 2023, give or take (24.0% to 26.4%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Some 34,653 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Montréal public library in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 0.6 km from Snowdon
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Snowdon.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Anyone through the door counts as a visit, from Snowdon or not, and the statistics have no resident share.
Questions about the library and civic life in Snowdon
Does Snowdon have a public library?
No, but Bibliothèque publique juive in Savane is the nearest public library to Snowdon.
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).