Geographic Attribute File (GAF), 1986 Census Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: The Geographic Attribute File is a dataset that contains census geographic information at the Enumeration Area level for all of Canada for the 1986 census. Each record includes geographic coordinates, population and dwelling counts, land area, names, unique identifiers, and geographic codes for linkages with other census boundaries. The original dataset is available from Statistics Canada as a text file (.txt). For viewing in Scholars GeoPortal, the dataset was converted from this original format into a Shapefile format using the point coordinates available for each record. Each point is the population centre of an Enumeration Area. The original data, and other supporting files and documentation, are available as additional downloads from Scholars GeoPortal.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2016-06-02

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  datagis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  

  Series

  Name: Statistics Canada, Geographic Attribute File

  
  

  Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada

  Statistics Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: boundaries

  Keywords:

  Boundaries, Census, Urban areas, Dwellings, Population

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Dataset Language: eng

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -140.880350

  East Longitude: -52.681223

  North Latitude: 76.425414

  South Latitude: 41.781436

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: curve

  Object Count: 44042

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  The original dataset is available from Statistics Canada as a text file (.txt). For viewing in Scholars GeoPortal, the dataset was converted from this original format into a Shapefile format using the point coordinates available for each record. Each point is the population centre of an Enumeration Area.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada