Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Census Subdivisions, for areas outside Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, Update - ARCHIVED

The Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Census Subdivisions, for areas outside Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations cover areas outside census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations. Each map in this series covers one census subdivision and displays the boundaries and codes of dissemination areas, designated places and their names, as well as urban and rural areas within that census subdivision. There are 4,470 maps in this series.

The maps also display census subdivision boundaries with street network and other visible features such as railroads, rivers and lakes. The maps vary in scale and size; the maximum dimensions are 86 cm by 61 cm (34 inches by 24 inches).

Dissemination areas reference maps are also available by census tracts for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations (92-147-XIB), and by non-tracted census agglomerations (92-148-UIB). Together, the three sets of dissemination area maps cover all of Canada.

A reference guide is available (92-145-GIE).

Reference maps are available free on the Internet (www.statcan.gc.ca). To purchase this product in electronic format (PDF on CD-ROM) or paper format, please contact us.

The 2001 Census Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Census Divisions, for areas outside Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations was discontinued and replaced, in 2006, by the Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Census Subdivisions, for areas outside Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations.

All maps in the Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Census Subdivisions, for areas outside Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations are issued in two versions. The first version released on January 16, 2007 (92-145-XIB) depicts census subdivisions with dissemination areas. The second version released on March 13, 2007 (92-145-UIB) includes additional information depicting urban areas, as well as designated places. The urban areas and designated places available in the March 13, 2007 series are delineated based on population distributions from the 2006 Census.

The maps are in colour.

The maps vary in scale (ranging from 1:100 to 1:9,223,400) and size, the maximum dimensions being approximately 86 cm by 61 cm (34 inches by 24 inches).