Photo: Wilfredor · CC0At 8.5 visits per person served, Québec public library is busier than 90% of Quebec’s town libraries
Québec public library serves the whole of Québec, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 594,443 people, Montcalm among them. The figures come from Quebec’s public library statistics for 2025, as the library filed them.
C+Civic life#117 of 507 in QuebecBehind Montcalm’s civic life grade
Montcalm gets a C+ for civic life, #117 of 507 towns graded in Quebec. All three civic life inputs exist for Montcalm: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
883 registered charities are based in Québec, by mailing address
There is no count for Montcalm on its own: the charities are those of all of Québec. It works out to 1.5 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Quebec town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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 13,841 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Québec public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.2 km from Montcalm
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Montcalm.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. A busy library may owe some of its visits to people who live outside Montcalm; the figure can’t tell them apart.
Questions about the library and civic life in Montcalm
Does Montcalm have a public library?
Not in Montcalm: the nearest public library is Bibliothèque de Saint-Sauveur, in Saint-Sauveur.
How busy is Québec public library?
It counted 5,051,797 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).