Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0At 1.7 visits per person served, Bibliothèque Gisèle Paré is quieter than 77% of Quebec’s town libraries
A single building, Bibliothèque Gisèle Paré, serves 12,518 people. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
DCivic life#449 of 507 in QuebecWhat Sainte-Julienne’s civic life grade weighs
With a D, Sainte-Julienne ranks #449 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Sainte-Julienne 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.
Sainte-Julienne mailing addresses hold 9 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.7; 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%
Between 24.0% and 26.4% of people in Quebec volunteered formally in 2023, 25.2% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
About 58 visits a day
Everything counted at Bibliothèque Gisèle Paré in 2025: visits, loans and cards.
Sainte-Julienne’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sainte-Julienne.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Julienne
Does Sainte-Julienne have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque Gisèle Paré.
How busy is Bibliothèque Gisèle Paré?
It counted 21,300 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).