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Canadian Geospatial Data
Geography Products from Statistics Canada

2011 Census Geography Products - Homepage

Maps

  • GeoSearch - tool for finding locations in Canada and related Census Data (2011)
  • Reference Maps - Online reference of classification for geographical areas in Canada.
  • Thematic Maps - Shows spatial distribution of data themes for geographic areas. ( e.g., percentage population change)

Spatial Information Products

  • Road Network File - Digital representation of road network in Canada, including street names, types, directions and address ranges.
  • Boundary Files - Cartographic or Digital boundary files portraying the geographic areas of Canada. Data can be downloaded in ArcGIS, MapInfo, or GML. Water features are also available. These files are useful for linking to, and mapping census data.

Attribute Information Products

  • Geographic Attribute File - Geographic data at block level. (population, land area, names, and more). Can be downloaded in Excel or Text, comma separated value.
  •  Geography Attribute Files, 1971 - 1996
  • Correspondence Files
    • - These files will correspond between current and past census geographic areas. GeoSuite: This downloadable product is used to retrieve, query and export data. Users can perform analysis with data within the tool, rather than downloaded several data files into a software product.

Previous Census Geography Files

Census of Canada Geography Files 2006 

Census of Canada Geography Files 2001

Census of Agriculture Geography Files

  • 2011 Census of Agriculture
  • 2006 Census of Agriculture  - Boundary files for the census of Agriculture available for download as well as online maps.
  • 2001 Census of Agriculture - Boundary files available for download.

    • Health Statistics Geography files

  • Health Regions: Boundary and Correspondence Files
  • Health related Data tables and maps - maps include health regions, and thematic maps alphabetically (includes topics such as obesity, asthma, mortality etc)
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    Topographic & Base Maps
  • ArcGIS.com: Worldwide online mapping. Includes World Topographic Map. Mapping includes data from NRCAN, Ag. Canada, ESRI, USGS, etc.
  • CanMap Parks: Available through Equinox. Includes Canadian park boundaries and point features. Also includes area codes, time zones, provinces and more.
  • CanMap Postal Geography: In Equinox, search under postal geography: enables geocoding and consists of: Postal Code File, Enhanced Postal Code File ( point database representation of postal codes across canada, and links each postal code to the 1996 Census Demographic Boundaries) and the Forward Sortation Area (first three digits of postal code) boundaries.
  • CanMap Rail File: Available through Equinox.Includes railway and transit lines, capital cities, transportation stops, water and provincial boundaries.
  • CanMap Route Logistics - features include road name and number, exit numbers, time travel in minutes, truck route information, highway attributes and more.
  • CanMap Street Files - (Preview)
    CanMap Streetfiles     updated annually and includes: major roads, street addresses, populated place names, regional and municipal boundaries, points of interest, etc.
  • CanMap Water : Vector data of all watercourses, waterbodies and special water features for all provinces in Canada.
  • CanMatrix (Preview)
    CanMatrix    : CanMatrix (Georeferenced)- Digital Topographic Maps of Canada,  was produced by scanning federal-government topographic maps at the 1:50 000 and 1:250 000 scales. CanMatrix is basically a raster image, it can also be used as background data for a variety of applications.
  • CanTopo: CanTopo is the new generation of topographic maps being produced by NRCan
  • CanVec: offers quality topographic information in vector format that complies with international geomatics standards.
    CanVec is a multi-source product coming mainly from the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB), the GeoBase initiative (www.geobase.ca) and the data update using Landsat 7 imagery coverage. CanVec product contains more than 90 topographic entities thematically organized into 11 distribution themes: Administrative Boundaries, Buildings and Structures, Energy, Hydrography, Industrial and Commercial Areas, Places of Interest, Relief and Landforms, Toponymy, Transportation, Vegetation and Water Saturated Soils. Having trouble downloading from CanVec? see this tutorial for downloading and displaying elevation in Google Earth.
  • DMTI Digital Elevation Models  - Created from the interpolation of the National Topographic Database (NTDB) 1:50,000 scale digital mapping (Standards and Specifications V3.0 and later). 30 metre resolutions captured from 1:50,000 NTDB. 90 metre resolutions resampled from the 30 metre. Download by request, please include resolution (90 or 30m) and NTS numbers you wish to aquire. See reference maps: What NTS areas are available and NTS reference Maps: Canada's North , Ontario, Quebec, BC, Prairies, and Atlantic.
  •  DMTI neighbourhood files : National neighbourhood files.
  • DMTI Platinum Postal Suite: Includes: Enhanced Postal Codes (MEP), Retired Postal Codes, Forward Sortation Area Boundaries (FSA), Local Delivery Area Unit Boundaries(DLU).
  • DMTI Enhanced Points of Interest - National database of nearly 1 million Canadian businesses and points of interest. Features include: coordinate location, record name, address,city,province,postalcode, telephone number, geocode and attribute precision code and more.
  • ESRI - ESRI has recently released all basemaps for public use
  • GeoBase: Government of Canada and the Natural Resources Canada Centre for Topographic Information.  This resource provides Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED), (Preview)
    Digital Elevation Data consists of an ordered array of ground elevations at regularly spaced intervals.  The CDED data is used in GIS for land-management applications by providing a powerful analytical tool for estimating values of elevation points, determining orientation and slope of each point, developing terrain models, and calculating the significance of the terrain on line-of-sight, an extremely useful tool in such practices as radar imaging and flood simulation. GeoBase also offers Administrative Boundaries, Geodetic Network, Geographical Names, Land Cover, National Hydro Network, National Road Network and Satellite Imagery.
  • GEOSCAN: Image files from Natural Resources Canada, including scanned topographic maps.
  • Digital Elevation Data is an ordered array of ground elevations at regularly spaced intervals.  The CDED data is used in GIS for land-management applications by providing a powerful analytical tool for estimating values of elevation points, determining orientation and slope of each point, developing terrain models, and calculating the significance of the terrain on line-of-sight, an extremely useful tool in such practices as radar imaging and flood simulation. GeoBase also offers Administrative Boundaries, Geodetic Network, Geographical Names, Land Cover, National Hydro Network, National Road Network and Satellite Imagery.
  • National Topographic Database: (NTDB) This collection is static now. User of the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB) should use CanVec maps in place of the old NTS maps. The National Topographic Data Base (NTDB) comprises digital vector data sets that cover the entire Canadian landmass. Geomatics Canada has digitized and structured thousands of topographic maps, creating a complete and uniform product that can be highly useful in a broad range of industries. The NTDB includes features such as watercourses, urban areas, railways, roads, vegetation, and relief.
  • Toporama : Toporama is a digital topographic reference product developed by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). Toporama is essentially based on the CanVec product, and covers the following themes: Buildings and Structures, Energy, Hydrography, Places of Interest, Relief and Landforms, Water-saturated Soils, Toponymy, Transportation, Vegetation, and Industrial and Commercial Areas.
  •   CanMatrixDMTI- Can Map NTDB
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    Thematic Data
  • Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada: Timelines and Maps - This series of maps illustrates the historical evolution of Canada through treaty-making between 1867 and 1999, focussing on the Numbered Treaties.
  • Aboriginal Communities and Friendship Centres in Google Earth:  Aboriginal Communities and Friendship Centres in Google Earth is a virtual globe program that is made freely available from the Google Corporation. The program maps the earth by superimposing images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.
  • Atlas of Suburbanisms - The objective of the Atlas of Suburbanisms is to make publicly available research and data analysis of Canada’s changing cities with an explicit focus on suburbanization.
  • AVHRR Land Cover Data, Canada : Offered via GeoGratis, this land cover data set was derived from the advanced very high resolution radiometer sensor on NOAA satellites. Includes land cover and vegetation data.
  • Canadian Century Research Infrastructure : The CCRI is composed of microdata, namely, data created from Canadian census enumerations between 1911 to 1951, a geographical framework constructed to enable the location, selection, aggregation, and analysis of census data, and contextual data, namely the textual data used to situate the census in time and to enhance appropriate analysis of the data. The U of T offers links to download pdf maps and GIS layers from this infrastructure.
  • Canada's Nutrition and Health Atlas - Here you'll find maps and tables that make it easy to access information about the health and nutrition of Canadians. You can either view maps for each indicator or view the data for each province. 
  • Canadian Geographical Names Database  - Access nearly 320 000 geographical names stored in the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base  
  • DMTI Spatial Clutter: 11 class land use raster dataset based on the NTDB 1:50,000 scale maps.
  • Environment Canada: National Pollutant Release Inventory map (for Google Earth)
  • Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - GeoViewer : The GeoViewer is web based mapping tool that can be used to view, gather and query geographic information regarding INAC.
  • Postal Code Conversion File: (PCCF) - The Postal Code Conversion File  provides a link between six character postal codes and standard Census geographic areas ( such as dissemination areas, municipalities, and census tracts). It also provides the latitutde and longitude coordinates for a point representing the approximate location of the postal code to support mapping.
  • Postal Code Conversion File, Plus: (PCCF+) - The Postal Code Conversion File Plus (PCCF+) is a complementary product to the Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF). It is an automated system that uses postal codes to assign census geography. PCCF+ is based on the latest Postal Code Conversion File and the Postal Code Population consists of two SAS control programs (GEORES4x for residential coding, GEOINS4x for office coding) and a series of reference files derived from the Statistic s Canada Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF), the Postal Code Population Weight File (WCF) and other sources. It automatically assigns a full range of geographic identifiers (PR CD CSD CMA CT DA BLK LAT LONG etc.) based on postal codes.
  • Postal Codes by Federal Ridings: (PCFR)  
  • Scholars GeoPortal : This new geospatial data discovery tool offers search, preview, and download functionality for a growing selection of datasets licensed by Ontario university libraries, covering such topics as land use, transportation networks, census boundaries, points of interest (such as schools, airports, and golf courses), orthophotography, and more.
  • SimplyMap Canada - online mapping application for thematic mapping of Canadian demographic and business data. Must be used on campus. Quick reference guide can be found here.
  • Timezones of Canada : shp files available online
  • Climate Map - Online mapping application for climate change, variability and extremes.
  • Community Information Database : Free online resource for socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada.
  • DRI: Drought Research Initiative - A searchable database of relevant data sources for the study of drought in Western Canada is available for download.
  • Geoscience Data Repository : NRCAN products including: Aeromagnetic and Electromagnetic data, Borehole data, Gravity data, Radioactivity data and more.
  • Great Lakes Information Network -   Data regarding biota, boundaries, climate, imagery, elevation, environment, and more - relating to the Great Lakes. Data available in PDF, KML,SHP and GML. Layers are accompanied by metadata.
  • National Soil Database, The National Soil Database is available from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website. This database provides soil, landscape, and climate data for all of Canada. Data is freely available from links that are posted on the website. Interactive online map also available.
  • North American Environmental Atlas - This website is provided by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America, a joint project between environmental authorities from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. They provide this free online atlas as a tool for analysis of environmental data in North Americaupon which many different layers of environmental-related data can be layered. Main categories include Terrestrial Ecosystems, Marine Ecosystems, Pollution and Waste, and Human Influence. One can use the map to view data such as basic physical features and infrastructure, designated ecoregions within North America, protected and priority conservation areas, natural ranges of various species of concern, nighttime light pollution, and more. It is a useful resource for anyone researching ecosystems of North America and human impact upon the environment. Access is provided free of charge, maps can be downloaded in a variety of different formats, and data is integrated with Google Earth Viewer.
  • Prairie Region Invasive Plant Species Inventory and Map Display -  invasive species online map
  • Public Health Agency of Canada - Chronic Disease Infobase: online mapping of diseases across Canada, includes alchohol use, diabetes, cancer, hospital stay, etc.
  • Watershed Boundaries of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) Project - The GIS database is the authoritative source for gross and effective drainage areas in the Prairie Provinces. The access to the information is easily obtainable through maps, tables, data and news. The best feature is the easy to follow web page along with the free hydrologically-based mapping and analysis systemProvincial GIS
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    Satellite Imagery
  • Alberta Terrestrial Imaging Center (ATIC) - SPOT satellite imagery bought on an as-needed basis. Contact Data and GIS services for information. Archived imagery also available.
  • CanImage: Natural Resources Canada, satellite image from resampled Landsat 7 orthoimages. Based on 1:50,000 NTS sheets. GeoTIFF format.
  • Landsat Mosaic: World Data Set (Raster) (Preview)
    Landsat Mosaic     - CD ROM from Geocommunity
  • DMTI (Preview)
    Satellite Street View    Satellite imagery for Saskatoon and Regina
  • GeoBase : Free access to Canadian Orthorectified imagery, Raw Imagery, and auxiliary products.
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    Other Canadian GIS data
    • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Interactive maps and data download related to agriculture in Canada. Interactive mapping (soil landscapes, ecosystem framework, plant zones, crop heat etc) and Agri-Geomatics (Canada Land Inventory, Climate data, Census of Agriculture, Land Cover and more) Detailed soil survey compilations available here.
    • Canadian Atlas Bundle for 2006 Census products. Database of topographic maps including: 1:2. 1:7.5 and 1:30 million scale maps and the Canadian Names Database.CAMB includes placenames, geographic features, roads, administrative regions and more.
    • Canada Lands Survey System - Includes Canada Lands Digital Cadastral Data ( parcel framework for specified lands), the Canada Lands in Google Earth Overlay,  Survey documentation, Oil and Gas Grid and more.
    • CEOCat - Catalogue of satellite images acquired by CCRS receiving stations since 1972 - organized by satellite/sensor - searchable by track/frame, lat/long, place name or NTS - primarily Canadian data - displays browse images and location maps - includes some image mosaics . Price quoted by supplier varies by satellite/sensor and product.
    • Equinox Data Delivery System - Formerly IDLS, includes census files and DMTI spatial data.
    • Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Spatial Data Holdings, download selected datasets as ESRI shapefiles directly.
    • GEO-STAT web mapping and data reporting: Géo-Stat combines statistics with mapping. Includes Canadian and USA maps with demographic data. 
    •  GeoConnections:The GeoConnections program is a Federal Government Initiative to build up the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure and to provide geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet. Data includes raster and vector data, as well as WMS services.
    • GeoCommunity Data Catalogue - (Preview)
      Geocommunity       Some free data, must register (free registration).
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    • Geography Network Canada: The Geography Network Canada is an online resource for finding and sharing Canadian geographic content, including maps and data from many of our country's leading providers (ESRI, GeoBase and DMTI are the main contributors).
    • GeoGratis: The Geogratis database provided by the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada offers a wealth of geospatial information at no cost. Must register for access.
    • Green Kanue - advanced data preparation, analysis, and visualization tool for hydrolic modellers. Integrades environmental data with geospatial data.
    • Government of Canada - Open Data: contains free statistical and GIS data.
    • HYDAT Database - flow rates, water levels and sediment data.
    • Natural Resources Canada - Mapping : Topo maps, The Atlas of Canada, Aerial Photos, Satellite Imagery, Geological Maps, Land Surveying, Forest Maps and Mining Maps.  There is also a link to the ftp site for fast download - index includes NTS mapsheets for google earth. Geoscience Data Repository ( from NRCAN)
    • NRCAN- The North: Offers Maps of various locations in Northern Canada via the Atlas of Canada.
    • Placenames - tabular data set from GeoCommunity bundle