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Selection of Statistics Canada 2016 geographic boundaries

Here is a selection of web services displaying the geographic boundaries of the most common administrative and statistical areas published by Statistics Canada.

Administrative areas are defined, with a few exceptions, by federal and provincial statutes and are adopted by Statistics Canada to support the collection and dissemination of data. Administrative areas supported by Statistics Canada include:

Province and territory (PR)

Federal electoral district (FED)

Census division (CD)

Census subdivision (CSD)

Designated place (DPL)

Statistical areas are defined by Statistics Canada to support the dissemination of data. They are created according to a set of rules based on geographic attributes and one or more characteristics of the resident population. Some statistical areas maintained by Statistics Canada include:

Census agricultural region (CAR)

Economic region (ER)

Census consolidated subdivision (CSS)

Census metropolitan area and census agglomeration (CMA/CA)

Census tract (CT)

Aggregate Dissemination Areas (ADA)

Dissemination area (DA)

Dissemination block (DB)

To have a better understanding of the relationships between these areas, refer to the "Hierarchy of standard geographic areas for dissemination" diagram in the Data Resources below.

NOTE: Services may not all be listed in the Related Products section below as they are added individually only once available for publication.

Simple

Date ( RI_366 )
2018
Date ( RI_367 )
2018-06
RI_413
  Government of Canada; Statistics Canada - ( )
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0T6 , Canada
1-800-263-1136
1-514-283-9350
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
Hours of service
Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Collections
  • Census
  • Statistics
  • Geographic data
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; fra; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Reference system identifier
EPSG:3978
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 10.3.1 )

  • WMS ( 1.3.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Statistics Canada - ( )
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0T6 , Canada
1-800-263-1136
1-514-283-9350
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
Hours of service
Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
OnLine resource
Administrative areas (english) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Administrative areas (french) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Statistical areas (english) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Statistical areas (french) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Hierarchy of standard geographic areas for dissemination, Census 2016 (english) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Hierarchy of standard geographic areas for dissemination, Census 2016 (french) ( HTTP )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

File identifier
1a337ccf-1943-484a-bd2b-77048736b3ca XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2018-07-11T12:27:12
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Statistics Canada - ( )
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0T6 , Canada
1-800-263-1136
1-514-283-9350
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/
Hours of service
Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
 
 

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