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Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide Version 2021.06.0
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor or its representatives. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, without the written permission of Precisely, 2 Blue 1700 District Ave Ste 300 Burlington MA 01803-5231. © 1992, 2021 Precisely. All rights reserved. See www.precisely.com for information about our valuable trademarks. End User License Agreement (EULA) Use of the products mentioned in this document is governed by the terms of an end user license agreement (EULA). Please review this agreement carefully. You can also review the full terms of the EULA by visiting https://www.precisely.com/legal/licensing/data-end-user-license-agreement. Adapted from Statistics Canada’s 2016 Cartographic Boundary File, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 92-160-X (http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2016-eng.cfm). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. © 2006-2021 TomTom. All rights reserved. This material is proprietary and the subject of copyright protection, database right protection and other intellectual property rights owned by TomTom or its suppliers. The use of this material is subject to the terms of a license agreement. Any unauthorized copying or disclosure of this material will lead to criminal and civil liabilities. Please visit https://tomtom.com/legal for more information. Version 2021.06.0 Last Update: 08 June 2021
Table of Contents
1 Getting Started 5 Aggregate Dissemination Areas
Canadian Census Boundary Products Description ................................................... 13
Overview ........................................................ 3 Specifications ............................................... 13
Data Vintage .................................................. 3 Table Structure ............................................ 13
File Naming Convention ................................. 3
Specifications ................................................. 4 6 Census Subdivisions
Methodology................................................... 4 Description ................................................... 15
Notes.............................................................. 5 Specifications ............................................... 15
Document Conventions .................................. 5 Table Structure ............................................ 15
Field Names in Schema Tables .............. 5
7 Census Tracts
2 Provinces and Territories
Description ................................................... 17
Description ..................................................... 7 Specifications ............................................... 17
Specifications ................................................. 7 Census Tracts in Census Agglomerations
Table Structure............................................... 7 .................................................... 17
Province/Territory Codes ................................ 7 Census Tracts in Census Metropolitan
Areas ........................................... 17
3 Census Metropolitan Areas/Census Table Structure ............................................ 18
Agglomerations
Description ..................................................... 9 8 Dissemination Areas
Specifications ................................................. 9 Description ................................................... 20
Table Structure............................................... 9 Specifications ............................................... 20
Table Structure ............................................ 20
4 Census Divisions
Description ................................................... 11 Appendix A Census Metropolitan Areas/Census
Specifications ............................................... 11 Agglomerations by Name .............................. 21
Table Structure............................................. 11
Product Feedback and Support ................................. 24
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 11 Getting Started
In this section
Canadian Census Boundary Products Overview
Data Vintage
File Naming Convention
Update Frequency
Specifications
Methodology
Notes
Document Conventions
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2Canadian Census Boundary Products Overview
Canadian Census Boundary products depict census information, current as of the most recent census
year, 2016. Source data was provided by TomTom, with further file improvements made by Precisely.
Data Vintage
Data vintage is a reference to the currency of data. It may not correspond exactly to the time of product
release because of production time.
Our data vintage reference style depicts the vintage of source data in unambiguous terms. All product
media, product documentation, and product metadata now prominently display data vintage as
YYYY.MM (Month Year), where YYYY represents the year and MM is the two-digit representation of
the month.
Example:
2017.09 (September 2017)
File Naming Convention
Canadian Census Boundary products use the following file naming standard:
Geographic Coverage + Base Year + Data Layer + Data Vintage.filetype
Geographic Coverage is the abbreviated name of the geographic entity that forms the boundary layer.
Possible values are CN for nationwide coverage or individual province abbreviations. A complete list of
province/territory abbreviations is found in Provinces and Territories > Province/Territory Codes.
Base Year is Statistics Canada’s census base year.
Data Layer is the two-letter abbreviation for the data layer provided in the file, using the following
abbreviation:
Data Layer Abbreviation Data Layer Name
AD Aggregate Dissemination Area
DA Dissemination Area
CD Census Division
CM Census Metropolitan Area
CN Canada
CS Census Subdivision
CT Census Tract
PR Province/Territory
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 3Example:
cn16da2018_12.TAB is the file name for a national dataset of Dissemination Areas, base year 2016,
December 2018 data vintage. File format is MapInfo TAB in this example.
Specifications
The following specifications apply to all Canadian Census Boundary products mentioned in this
document:
Coverage Area National
Geographic Availability National
Reference Date 2016
• TomTom
Sources • Statistics Canada
• Precisely
• MapInfo TAB
File Formats • Shape (SHP)
• Well Known Text (WKT)
Update Frequency See below
Canadian Census Boundary data is updated quarterly in order to align boundaries with the latest street
products from TomTom.
Census year updates are updated every five years. Boundary files are updated once they become
available from TomTom. Enhancements from TomTom are also included in StreetPro Canada.
Methodology
Dissemination area boundaries are merged into the product with each new census and
enhanced/aligned to fit TomTom’s Canadian street network, using both automated and manual
processes.
Canadian Census Boundary products are enhanced with each quarterly release of StreetPro Canada.
These enhancements include, but are not limited to, using imagery to align boundaries to the street
network and detailed shorelining. Census boundaries are also used to provide hierarchy links in various
other products.
Boundary files supplied by TomTom are further enhanced by adding selected water features
(specifically large, internal, shoreline-defining bodies of water) from StreetPro Canada.
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 4Notes
The Dissemination Area boundary file is released using latitude/longitude coordinates. The default
datum is NAD83, using the GRS80 spheroid. Most user-defined datums are supported and available on
request.
The practice of using a “point-to-poly” to convert products created based on 2011 census
geography to 2016 geography is not recommended.
Document Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
Text Style Significance
Underlined Emphasis
Document or chapter titles, or references
Italics
to specific text
Bold Field or file name references in text
Underlined bold Commands or actions
Typewriter font, shaded
Keyboard input or screen output
background
Field Names in Schema Tables
Field names in schema tables are documented in upper-case letters. The appearance of field names in
the actual product may differ from this convention.
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 52 Provinces and
Territories
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
Province/Territory Codes
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6Description
The provincial boundary file is a geographic polygon file depicting the boundaries for Canada’s ten
provinces and 3 territories (PRs), which comprise the major political subdivision boundaries within the
country.
Specifications
The Provinces and Territories table contains 13 records.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
CODE CHAR (10) Yes 2-digit code identifying the province/territory
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Province/territory name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Province/Territory Codes
A two-digit code is used to identify each province or territory. The first digit represents the region of
Canada in which the province/territory is located. The second digit denotes the area within that region:
Code Region Province/Territory Name (English/French) Abbreviation
01 - Canada -
Newfoundland and Labrador/Terre-Neuve-
10 Atlantic NL
Labrador
11 Atlantic Prince Edward Island/Île-du-Prince-Édouard PE
12 Atlantic Nova Scotia/Nouvelle-Écosse NS
13 Atlantic New Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick NB
24 Quebec Quebec/Québec QC
35 Ontario Ontario ON
46 Prairies Manitoba MB
47 Prairies Saskatchewan SK
48 Prairies Alberta AB
59 British Columbia British Columbia/Colombie-Britannique BC
60 Territories Yukon Territory/Territoire du Yukon YT
61 Territories Northwest Territories/Territoires du Nord-Ouest NT
62 Territories Nunavut NU
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 73 Census Metropolitan
Areas/Census
Agglomerations
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 8Description
The Census Metropolitan Areas/Census Agglomerations boundary file is a geographic polygon
representation of the boundaries of Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) and Census
Agglomerations (CAs).
Census Metropolitan Areas are very large urban areas with populations of 100,000 or greater in the
previous census. CMAs will retain their designation even if the population of the core area decreases
below 100,000.
Census Agglomerations are smaller areas with cores having a population of between 10,000 and
100,000 in the previous census.
Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations are defined by Statistics Canada and
do not constitute political geographies. CMAs and CAs do not cover the entire land mass of
Canada.
The one CMA (Ottawa-Gatineau) and 3 CAs (Cambellton, Hawkesbury, and Lloydminster) that cross
provincial boundaries are each represented by a single polygon record in this boundary file.
Specifications
The Census Metropolitan Area/Census Agglomeration boundary file contains a total of 152 records –
35 CMAs and 117 CAs. For a complete list of these areas, please see Appendix A – Census
Metropolitan Areas/Census Agglomerations by Name.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
CODE CHAR (10) Yes 3-character CMA/CA identifier
AREANAME CHAR (100) No CMA/CA name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 94 Census Divisions
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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10Description
The Census Division boundary file is a geographic polygon file depicting the boundaries for Canada’s
Census Divisions (CDs).
Census Divisions are geographic areas at the level between provinces/territories and Census
Subdivisions. Where provincial law does not designate Census Divisions, Statistics Canada, in
cooperation with those provinces, has created Census Divisions for statistical purpose.
Census Divisions are identified by a unique code consisting of a two-digit province/territory code and a
2-digit Census Division code.
Specifications
The Census Divisions table contains 293 records.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
4-character code identifying province/territory
CODE CHAR (10) Yes
and Census Division
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Census Division name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 115 Aggregate
Dissemination Areas
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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12Description
The Aggregate Dissemination Area boundary file is a geographic polygon file of the boundaries for
Canada’s Aggregate Dissemination Areas (ADAs).
Aggregate Dissemination Areas are a new census geography created for the 2016 Census. ADAs
cover all of Canada and are formed from Census Tracts, Census Subdivisions, or Dissemination Areas.
Aggregate Dissemination Areas have a population of between 5,000 and 15,000 and are intended to
ensure the availability of census data.
Within CMAs/CAs, adjacent Census Tracts are grouped together to meet ADA population criteria. In
areas without tracts, Census Dissemination Areas (with less than 15,000 population) are grouped
together to meet ADA population criteria; otherwise Dissemination Areas (in Census Subdivisions
having a population greater than 15,000) are grouped together. Indian Reserves and a small number of
other areas where door-to-door canvassing occurred form their own individual ADAs.
ADAs are identified by a by an eight-character code consisting of a 2-character province/territory code
and a 4-character ADA identifier.
Specifications
The Aggregate Dissemination Area table contains 5,386 records.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
8-character Aggregate Dissemination Area
CODE CHAR (10) Yes
identifier
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Same as CODE
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 136 Census Subdivisions
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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14Description
The Census Subdivision boundary file is a geographic polygon file representing the boundaries of
Canada’s census subdivisions.
Census Subdivisions represent municipal political boundaries (cities, towns, villages, townships, and
Indian Reserves) within provincial or territorial census divisions. They must have a high degree of
economic and social integration with their core and a population of at least 50,000. Each Census
Subdivision is identified by a unique code consisting of a two-character province/territory code, a 2-
character Census Division code, and a 3-character Census Subdivision code.
Specifications
The Census Subdivisions table contains 5,162 records.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
7-character code identifying the Census
CODE CHAR (10) Yes
Subdivision
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Census Subdivision name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 157 Census Tracts
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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16Description
Census Tracts (CTs) are small, urban or rural, neighborhood-like communities nested within Census
Metropolitan Areas or Census Agglomerations. Population in Census Tracts ranges from 2,500 to
10,000, with a preferred average population of 5,000 (except for CTs in business districts). When
Census Tracts are delineated, Census Canada makes every effort to ensure that the population is as
homogenous as possible.
Census Tracts are identified by a ten-character code consisting of a CMA/CA code, and a 7-character
numeric code that includes leading zeroes, decimal point, and trailing zeroes.
Specifications
The Census Tract boundary table contains 5,721 records. Census Tracts are available for 49 major
markets in Canada.
Census Tracts do not cover all of Canada’s land mass. The program exists in all of Canada’s 35
CMAs and 14 of its 117 CAs:
Census Tracts in Census Agglomerations
Fredericton, NB Sault Ste. Marie, ON Kamloops, BC
Drummondville, QC Medicine Hat, AB Chilliwack, BC
Granby, QC Red Deer, AB Nanaimo, BC
Sarina, ON Grand Prairie, AB Prince George, BC
North Bay, ON Wood Buffalo, AB
Census Tracts in Census Metropolitan Areas
St. John’s, NF Barrie, ON Thunder Bay, ON
Halifax, NS Oshawa, ON Winnipeg, MB
Moncton, NB Toronto, ON Regina, SK
Saint John, NB Brantford, ON Saskatoon, SK
Quebec, QC Guelph, ON Lethbridge, AB
Saguenay, QC Hamilton, ON Calgary, AB
Sherbrooke, QC St. Catharine’s-Niagara, ON Edmonton, AB
Trois-Rivieres, QC Kitchener, ON Abbotsford-Mission, BC
Montreal, QC Kingston, ON Kelowna, BC
Ottawa, ON – Gattineau, QC London, ON Vancouver, BC
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 17Peterborough, ON Windsor, ON Victoria, BC
Belleville, ON Greater Sudbury, ON
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
CODE CHAR (10) Yes 10-character Census Tract identifier
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Census Tract name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 188 Dissemination Areas
In this section
Description
Specifications
Table Structure
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19Description
The Dissemination Area boundary file is a geographic polygon file depicting Canada’s 56,590 Census
Dissemination Areas (DAs).
Dissemination Areas are the smallest standard geographic unit for which census data is collected and
are composed of one or more neighboring blocks with a target population of 400-700 people.
Dissemination Areas follow road features to create the block while also respecting the boundaries of all
Census Subdivisions and Census Tracts.
All other levels of geography (provinces/territories, census divisions, census subdivisions, census
metropolitan areas/census agglomerations, census tracts, and aggregate dissemination areas) are
rollups of Dissemination Areas.
The identification code for Dissemination Areas consists of a two-letter provincial abbreviation, a 2-
character Census Division (CD) code, and a 4-character Dissemination Area code.
Specifications
The Dissemination Area table contains 56,590 records at the national level.
Table Structure
Data Type
Field Name Index Description
(Length)
8-digit code identifying the Dissemination
CODE CHAR (10) Yes
Area
AREANAME CHAR (100) No Area name
TYPE CHAR (3) No Geographic type
AREA NUMERIC (20,3) No Area in square kilometers
LATITUDE NUMERIC (20,6) No Latitude of geographic centroid
LONGITUDE NUMERIC (20,6) No Longitude of geographic centroid
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 20Appendix A Census Metropolitan Areas/Census
Agglomerations by Name
Name Province Type Name Province Type
Abbotsford-Mission BC CMA Fort St. John BC CA
Alma QC CA Fredericton NB CA
Amprior ON CA Gander NL CA
Baie-Comeau QC CA Granby QC CA
Barrie ON CMA Grand Falls-Windsor NL CA
Bathurst NB CA Grande Prairie AB CA
Bay Roberts NL CMA Greater Sudbury ON CA
Belleville ON CMA Guelph ON CMA
Brandon MB CA Halifax NS CMA
Brantford ON CMA Hamilton ON CMA
Brockville ON CA Hawkesbury ON-QC CA
Brooks AB CA High River AB CA
Calgary AB CMA Ingersoll ON CA
Campbell River BC CA Joliette QC CA
Campbellton NB-QC CA Kamloops BC CA
Camrose AB CA Kawartha Lakes ON CA
Canmore AB CA Kelowna BC CMA
Cape Breton NS CA Kenora ON CA
Carleton Place ON CA Kentville NS CA
Centre Wellington ON CA Kingston ON CMA
Kitchener-Cambridge-
Charlottetown PEI CA ON CMA
Waterloo
Chatham-Kent ON CA Lachute QC CA
Chilliwack BC CA Lacombe AB CA
Cobourg ON CA Leamington ON CA
Cold Lake AB CA Lethbridge AB CMA
Collingwood ON CA Llodyminster AB-SK CA
Corner Brook NL CA London ON CMA
Cornwall ON CA Matane QC CA
Courtenay BC CA Medicine Hat AB CA
Cowansville QC CA Midland ON CA
Cranbrook BC CA Miramichi NB CA
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 21Name Province Type Name Province Type
Dawson Creek BC CA Moncton NB CMA
Dolbeau-Mistassini QC CA Montreal QC CMA
Drummondville QC CA Moose Jaw SK CA
Duncan BC CA Nanaimo BC CA
Edmonton AB CMA Nelson BC CA
Edmundston AB CMA New Glasgow NS CA
Elliot Lake ON CA Norfolk ON CA
Estevan SK CA North Battleford SK CA
North Bay ON CA Squamish BC CA
St. Catharine’s-
Okotoks AB CA ON CMA
Niagara
Orillia ON CA St. John’s NL CMA
Oshawa ON CMA Steinbach MB CA
Ottawa-Gatineau ON-QC CMA Stratford ON CA
Owen Sound ON CA Strathmore AB CA
Parksville BC CA Summerside PEI CA
Pembroke ON CA Swift Current SK CA
Penticton AB CA Sylvan Lake AB CA
Petawawa ON CA Terrace BC CA
Peterborough ON CMA Thetford Mines QC CA
Port Alberni BC CA Thompson MB CA
Port Hope ON CA Thunder Bay ON CMA
Portage la Prairie MB CA Tillsonburg ON CA
Powell River BC CA Timmins ON CA
Prince Albert SK CA Toronto ON CMA
Prince George BC CA Trois-Rivieres QC CMA
Prince Rupert MC CA Truro NS CA
Quebec QC CMA Val-d’Or QC CA
Quesnel BC CA Vancouver BC CMA
Red Deer AB CA Vernon BC CA
Regina SK CMA Victoria BC CMA
Rimouski QC CA Victoriaville QC CA
Riviere-du-Loup QC CA Wasaga Beach ON CA
Rouyn-Noranda QC CA Wetaskiwin AB CA
Saguenay QC CMA Weyburn SK CA
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 22Name Province Type Name Province Type
Saint John NB CMA Whitehorse YK CA
Sainte-Marie QC CA Williams Lake BC CA
Saint-Georges QC CA Windsor ON CMA
Saint-Hyacinthe QC CA Winkler MB CA
Salaberry-de-
QC CA Winnipeg MB CMA
Valleyfield
Salmon Arm BC CA Wood Buffalo AB CA
Sarnia ON CA Woodstock ON CA
Saskatoon SK CMA Yellowknife NT CA
Sault Ste. Marie ON CA Yorkton SK CA
Sept-Iles QC CA
Shawnigan QC CA
Sherbrooke QC CMA
Sorel-Tracy QC CA
Canadian Census Boundary Products Product Guide 23Product Feedback and Support
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