Canada Municipalities represents the municipalities (townships) within Canada of types including cities, cantons, hamlets, towns/ville, villages, Indian reserves, parishes/paroisse, communities, unorganized, districts, and terre Inuite. The boundaries are digitized from CanMapr.
Canada Municipalities provides the municipalities of Canada with detail appropriate for national, regional, and local levels.
Largest scale when displaying the data: 1:50,000.
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The shapefile is converted to SDC (Smart Data Compression) format using either ESRI SDC Data Development Kit Professional 2 (DDKP2) or tools in ArcGIS. The SDC data set is then loaded into ArcSDEr to verify and validate the geometry.
After processing, the data set is checked for drawing display and number of records and file sizes compared with source materials.
The positional accuracy ranges from sub-meter (GPS derived) to 5 meters (1:50,000 National Topographic Data Base (NTDB) areas) or greater, in the case of Northern areas in Canada not covered by NTDB, namely, most of Nunavut, much of Northwest Territories and northern parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
Attribute and geospatial data
The data set is a fully georeferenced, purely digital product. The boundaries are digitized from CanMapr. The Municipalities layer is comprised of political administrative entities such as cities, towns, or villages. The DMTI Spatial Municipalities layer corresponds to the Statistics Canada 2001 Census Subdivisions (CSD). Source data ranges from municipal mapping at a very large scale of 1:2,000 or larger, to a medium scale of 1:50,000 scale from NTDB*. Source time period of content ranges from a few to several years (as in the case of NTDB*). *NTDB is the National Topographic Data Base, developed and maintained by Natural Resources Canada.
The following steps were performed by ESRI: Extracted data set from DMTI SpatialT Canadian Data Bundle. Clipped the features to the coastline. Adjusted the width of attribute NAME. Renamed attribute AREA_SQKM to SHORE_AREA. Added attribute SQKM and calculated its values. Created ArcGISr layer file (.lyr), projection file (.prj), and spatial indices.
Internal feature number.
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The two-letter abbreviation for the province or territory in which the municipality is located.
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Alberta
Canada Post Corporation
British Columbia
Canada Post Corporation
Manitoba
Canada Post Corporation
New Brunswick
Canada Post Corporation
Newfoundland and Labrador
Canada Post Corporation
Nova Scotia
Canada Post Corporation
Northwest Territories
Canada Post Corporation
Nunavut
Canada Post Corporation
Ontario
Canada Post Corporation
Prince Edward Island
Canada Post Corporation
Quebec
Canada Post Corporation
Saskatchewan
Canada Post Corporation
Yukon Territory
Canada Post Corporation
The municipality name.
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The type of municipality. Type is used to help distinguish municipalities having the same name from one another.
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City - Cit.
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Chartered Community.
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County (Municipality).
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Community.
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Canton (Municipalit de).
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Cantons Unis (Municipalit de).
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District Municipality.
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Hamlet.
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Improvement District.
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Indian Government District.
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Island Municipality.
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Local Government District.
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Township and Royalty.
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Municipalit.
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Municipal District.
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Northern Hamlet.
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Nisga'a Land.
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Northern Village.
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Nisga'a Village.
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Paroisse (Municipalit de).
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Parish.
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Indian Reserve - Rserve indienne.
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Rural Community.
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Regional District Electoral Area.
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Region.
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Regional Municipality.
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Rural Municipality.
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Resort Village.
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Indian Settlement - tablissement indien.
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Special Area.
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Subdivision of County Municipality.
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Settlement.
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Specialized Municipality.
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Subdivision of Unorganized.
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Summer Village.
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Town.
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Terre Inuite.
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Teslin Land.
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Township.
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Terres Rserves.
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Unorganized - Non organis.
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Ville.
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Village Cri.
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Village Naskapi.
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Village.
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Village Nordique.
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The 2001 population of the municipality.
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The 2001 dwelling counts of the municipality.
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The land area of the municipality in square kilometers (not including any part of the municipality covered by water) using a Robinson projection.
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The measure of area in square kilometers using Albers Equal Area projection.
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Feature geometry.
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