What's new?

• The 2006 Boundary Files for census subdivisions and other high-level geographies are available free of charge.

• All boundary files are available for download from the Statistics Canada website (www.statcan.gc.ca).

• 2006 Standard Geographical Classification, Volume II: Reference Maps are available free of charge from the Statistics Canada website as a complementary product to the 2006 Boundary Files.

• Digital boundary files are reinstated for the 2006 Census.

• A 2006 Dissemination Block Cartographic Boundary File is available.

• The 2006 Census Metropolitan Area/Census Agglomeration Boundary Files now include census metropolitan area/census agglomeration parts where limits cross provincial boundaries.

• The Designated Place Parts Boundary File showing census subdivision components is no longer available.

• The hydrographic files contain improved detail including water feature names and types, and scale dependent ranking.

• All high-level geographic attributes are available in the Census Subdivision Boundary File.

• Changes were made to the census subdivision names and types to accommodate new bilingual names. To date, there are six new bilingual census subdivision names: Beaubassin East/Beaubassin-est (N.B.), Grand Falls/Grand-Sault (N.B.), French River/Rivière des Français (Ont.), Greater Sudbury/Grand Sudbury (Ont.), The Nation/La Nation (Ont.) and West Nipissing/Nipissing Ouest (Ont.).

• The Dissemination Block Boundary Files contain coordinates for dissemination block representative points. These representative points are a single x,y coordinate that represents each dissemination block. The representative points are in latitude and longitude coordinates.