Boundary Files, 1911 Census of Canada Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: This data set reconstructs the census compilation and dissemination geography of the 1911 Canadian Census at the census division (CD) and census subdivision (CSD) level of geography. The shapefiles (.shp) were derived from a comprehensive geodatabase, as part of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI). Detailed water polygons were replaced with a selection of major lakes in this version, indicated with the abbreviation MW in the file name, which stands for ‘major water’. These data are a part of a geographical framework constructed to enable the location, selection, aggregation, and analysis of census data, for census enumerations between 1911 and 1951.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2016-05-05

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  Metadata was created using metadata provided by University of Alberta Libraries.

  Metadata Contact:

  Moldofsky, Byron, University of Toronto Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  byron@geog.utoronto.ca

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO 19115 Geographic Information Metadata

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: Canadian Century Research Infrastructure

  
  

  Canadian Century Research Infrastructure , Canada

  Amrhein, Carl, University of Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Richard, Laurent, Université Laval Quebec, Canada

  Moldofsky, Byron, University of Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Beaudry, Mariange, University of Toronto Ontario, Canada

  St-Hilaire, Marc, Université Laval Quebec, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: boundaries

  Keywords:

  Boundaries, Society, Census Division, CD, Historic Census of Canada, CCRI, Canadian Century Research Infrastructure, Open Data, 1911, Geographic Data, Census Subdivision, Township

  Boundaries, Frontière, Census, Recensement, Census data, Données du recensement

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Purpose:

  This shapefile was created by the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) project, and consists of boundary polygons that reconstruct the census compilation and dissemination geography of the 1911 Canadian Census at the census division (CD) and census subdivision (CSD) level of geography. It can be used on its own with the attribute data fields included in the file, or it can be joined to other tabular data based on a linking field and a unique identifier (CCRIUID).

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.0.3035

  Extent

  West Longitude: -173.461347

  East Longitude: -13.554898

  North Latitude: 83.774123

  South Latitude: 36.912965

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Principal funding support came from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. The provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador provided essential matching funds for the work done in their respective provinces. The eight participating universities provided significant further assistance as did project partners Statistics Canada, IBM, MITEL, the Harold Crabtree Foundation, the Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency, L’Institut de la Statistique du Québec, and Library and Archives Canada.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 223

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  The file was generated from a comprehensive geodatabase created by the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI) project. As part of the shapefile construction process, detailed water polygons were deleted and replaced with a selection of major lakes. In order to distinguish this file, as defined by that characteristic, from other versions, the file name includes the abbreviation MW, which stands for Major Water. The 2001 Census geographic files produced by the Statistics Canada Geography Division constituted the primary reference base. Care was taken to conform as much as possible to the precedents set in level of detail and coding in this modern reference source. Other modern GIS reference sources, such as the National Topographic Data Base and provincial base layers at appropriate scales, were used to supplement this source. Historical sources, primarily maps from Library and Archives Canada, were used to identify and guide the editing of the Statistics Canada geographic files to reconstruct the boundaries of the 1911 census. Some background information on the initial planning is found in the article : "Geocoding and Mapping Historical Census Data: The Geographical Component of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure", by Marc St-Hilaire, Byron Moldofsky, Laurent Richard and Mariange Beaudry, Historical Methods, volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2007, p. 76-91. DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.40.2.76-91.

  
  

  Statistics Canada: Subdivisions Cartographic Boundary File. 2001 Census: Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census Subdivisions Cartographic Boundary File, 2001 Census, Second Edition, 2002. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  University of Alberta Libraries Edmonton Alberta, Canada

• Related Links

  • Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI), 1911 Census of Canada: Aggregate data and geography