Description:

The Census Division Cartographic Boundary File for Canada contains the boundaries of all 288 census divisions for the 2001 Census. A Census Division (CD) is an administrative area, which is a component of the Standard Geographic Classification and comprised of Census Subdivisions. Census division is the general term for provincially legislated areas (such as county, municipalité régionale de comté and regional district) or their equivalents. Census divisions are intermediate geographic areas between the province level and the municipality (census subdivision).

The Census Division Cartogtaphic Boundary File consists of polygons representing the census divisions. Every polygon encoded as part of the land area of Canada has a CDuid (a code to uniquely identify each census division) associated with it. The Census Division Cartogtaphic Boundary File is available at the national level only. The Census Division Cartogtaphic Boundary File consists of polygons representing census divisions. There are more polygons than census divisions primarily because of the additional polygons needed to represent islands.

(Source: Statistics Canada 2002)

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Datasets:

The Data are available in Arc/Info(r) Export format (*.E00), or in MapInfo(r) format in the Lambert Projection or in the Latitude / Longitude Projection.

In the TDR the following products are stored:

Example:

- some Census Divisions in Ontario