Sainte-Marie’s public library is Bibliothèque Honorius-Provost

It sits 1.2 km from the centre of Sainte-Marie.

C⁻Civic life#264 of 507 in Quebec

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Libraries

Charities

1.8 per 1,000 residents

No figures to show. The 2025 statistics list Bibliothèque Honorius-Provost, but without visits, loans or cards for it.

Civic life grade

What Sainte-Marie’s civic life grade weighs

With a C−, Sainte-Marie ranks #264 of 507 Quebec towns on civic life. Sainte-Marie has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Sainte-Marie’s overall grade.

–Library visitsVisits not reported C⁺Charities1.8 per 1,000 · Quebec towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁻Volunteering25.2% of residents · all of Quebec, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Sainte-Marie mailing addresses hold 25 registered charities

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.8; 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.

Volunteering

25.2%

One figure covers all of Quebec: in 2023, 25.2% of its people gave time to an organization (between 24.0% and 26.4%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Sainte-Marie’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Sainte-Marie.

1.2kmBibliothèque Honorius-ProvostDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Sainte-Marie

Does Sainte-Marie have a public library?

Yes: Bibliothèque Honorius-Provost.

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).