REFERENCE MAP FILES - CENSUS TRACTS BY CMA/CA (PDF Version)

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Description:

Census data are disseminated for a wide range of geographic areas ranging from the national level down to the highly detailed dissemination area level. Reference maps depict the boundaries of these geographic areas and help users put the census data in a spatial context.

The Census Tract Reference Maps, by Census Metropolitan Area or Census Agglomeration series presents census tracts for census metropolitan areas and tracted census agglomerations. Census tract names and boundaries are shown on all the maps. Maps for census agglomerations that are not tracted can be found in the Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Non-tracted Census Agglomeration (Catalogue No. 92F0147XIB).
For the 2001 Census, census agglomerations were eligible for census tracts based on the population size of their urban cores (50,000 or more at the previous census).

For the 2001 Census, the census tract programme was extended to include three additional census agglomerations: Medicine Hat, Alberta and Granby and Drummondville, Quebec. This brings the total number of census-tracted centres to 46.

There are 27 census metropolitan areas and 113 census agglomerations defined for the 2001 Census. Census tracts are defined for all of the census metropolitan areas and for 19 of the largest census agglomerations. The Census Tract Reference Maps, by Census Metropolitan Area or Census Agglomeration depict the components of the metropolitan hierarchy for those larger urban centres with census tracts.

Each census metropolitan area and census agglomeration is covered by from one to four maps.

See Reference Guide for further details.

(Source: Statistics Canada 2002)

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Maps:

The 2001 Maps are available in PDF format.
In the TDR the following products are stored:

NOTE: Parts shown providing no links to files are not available at that particular geographic level. Some CMAs are divided into sections due to size. A map indicating 1&2 indicates a large CMA is presented in one file, and several sections are produced to provide smaller files for researchers.

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