[CivicAccess-discuss] Free & Not Free Statistics Canada Geography Files

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

I met with an official at Statistics Canada some weeks ago and was pleased
to hear about the following geography files, in three formats GML, ESRI .shp
and MapInfo .tab  formats.

This is a good start.  It means that you can do some national analysis using
census sub-divisions  (CSD), census divisions (CD), census metropolitan
areas (CMA), and provinces and territories, etc. but not as large scales
such as postal code, dissemination area, enumeration area and census
tracts.  That means you cannot study neighbourhoods.  Also note, these are
just the empty shell geography files, you would still have to purchase the
census data to go along with these.

a) 2006 FREE Boundary Files for (
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/geo/bound-limit-eng.cfm):

   - provinces and territories
   - census divisions
   - economic regions
   - census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations
   - census consolidated subdivisions
   - census subdivisions
   - ecumene

b) 2006 FREE - Road Network File (
http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/1814062006_05-eng.jsp).
This does not include attributes and therefore it is hard to use it for
geocoding.  There is a National Road Network file that will soon be
available on Geobase with the attributes (
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/description.html).

c) 2006 FREE - Population Ecumene Census Division Cartographic Boundary File
(
http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/16151605032113051405_05-eng.jsp
)

d) FOR *FEE* 1991~2006-

   - GeoSuite ($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/IPS/display?cat_num=92-150-X>
   - Geographic Attribute File
($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/IPS/display?cat_num=92-151-X>
   - Correspondence
Files<http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss2006/DataProducts/BoundaryFiles/DAC_e.jsp>
   - Postal Code Conversion File
($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/IPS/display?cat_num=92-153-X>
   - Postal Code Conversion File – Update
($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/IPS/display?cat_num=92-153-U>
   - Postal Codes by Federal Ridings File
($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?lang=eng&catno=92F0193X>
   - Postal Codes by Federal Ridings File – Update
($)<http://www.statcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/IPS/display?cat_num=92F0193U>

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Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault
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