Photo: Gaétan Veillette · CC BY-SA 4.0Verchères’s public library is Bibliothèque municipale-scolaire Dansereau-Larose
Bibliothèque municipale-scolaire Dansereau-Larose has one location for the 5,832 people it serves. Visits ran to 3.4 per person served in 2025. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to Quebec’s public library statistics.
C−Civic life#317 of 507 in QuebecWhat Verchères’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Verchères grades C−: #317 of the 507 towns graded in Quebec. Verchères 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.
8 registered charities are based in Verchères, by mailing address
That is 1.4 per 1,000 residents, against 1.4 in the typical Quebec town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
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 54 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Bibliothèque municipale-scolaire Dansereau-Larose, in the library’s own counts.
Verchères’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Verchères.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Verchères
Does Verchères have a public library?
Yes: Bibliothèque municipale-scolaire Dansereau-Larose.
How busy is Bibliothèque municipale-scolaire Dansereau-Larose?
It counted 19,761 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).