About the data

These tables provide population counts and counts for total private dwellings and private dwellings occupied by usual residents, established by the 2006 Census of Canada. The levels of geography covered include provinces and territories, census subdivisions (CSDs) (municipalities), census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs), census divisions (CDs), urban areas (UAs), designated places (DPLs), federal electoral districts (FEDs) (according to the 2003 Representation Order), and statistical area classification (SAC). The geographic boundaries of these areas are those that were in effect on January 1, 2006 (the geographic reference date for the 2006 Census of Canada).

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