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Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011

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Toronto Montréal Edmonton Vancouver Calgary Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario) Winnipeg Québec Halifax Hamilton London St. Catharines–Niagara Ottawa–Gatineau (Quebec) Saskatoon Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo Greater Sudbury Windsor Saint John Oshawa Victoria Regina Kingston Sherbrooke Thunder Bay Saguenay Kelowna Moncton St. John's Peterborough Barrie Brantford Trois-Rivières Abbotsford–Mission Guelph 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 square kilometres 1971 built-up area1971 built-up area 1991 new built-up area1991 new built-up area 2001 new built-up area2001 new built-up area 2011 new built-up area2011 new built-up area
Note(s):
Built-up area data were taken from multiple sources. The 1971 built-up areas were based on Canada Land Inventory: Land Use and Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) with modelling of roads. CLUMP data excluded the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Moncton, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Peterborough, Kingston, Barrie, Brantford, Kelowna and Abbotsford–Mission. As a result, 1971 built-up areas may be underestimated for these CMAs. Built-up area estimates for other years were taken from Land Use, 1990, 2000 and 2010. 2011 CMA boundaries were used for all years.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2016, special tabulation of data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), 1999, Canada Land Inventory: Land Use (circa 1966), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/cli_250k/landuse/ (accessed September 15, 2015); NRCan, CCRS, 1999, CLUMP: Land Use (1971), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/clump/clump_1971/ (accessed September 15, 2015); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18e3ef1a-497c-40c6-8326-aac1a34a0dec (accessed September 16, 2015).

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Built-up area by census metropolitan area, 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011, square kilometres
  1971 built-up area 1991 new built-up area 2001 new built-up area 2011 new built-up area
Toronto 995 719 369 102
Montréal 755 542 113 161
Edmonton 342 549 146 56
Vancouver 492 309 159 35
Calgary 273 298 62 66
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ontario) 219 353 19 45
Winnipeg 326 191 19 23
Québec 183 180 46 67
Halifax 148 166 115 39
Hamilton 187 136 74 23
London 167 164 66 18
St. Catharines–Niagara 187 128 81 17
Ottawa–Gatineau (Quebec) 67 169 16 76
Saskatoon 103 188 13 16
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 119 99 48 16
Greater Sudbury 85 121 43 20
Windsor 113 101 36 8
Saint John 74 103 61 11
Oshawa 77 97 47 16
Victoria 120 64 33 16
Regina 102 108 9 11
Kingston 43 132 18 14
Sherbrooke 44 108 18 33
Thunder Bay 71 72 43 6
Saguenay 63 91 14 20
Kelowna 12 128 25 19
Moncton 30 99 39 14
St. John's 60 60 49 12
Peterborough 38 89 31 8
Barrie 24 85 37 9
Brantford 44 66 40 5
Trois-Rivières 36 82 13 16
Abbotsford–Mission 18 84 29 9
Guelph 35 49 23 5
Note(s):
Built-up area data were taken from multiple sources. The 1971 built-up areas were based on Canada Land Inventory: Land Use and Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) with modelling of roads. CLUMP data excluded the census metropolitan areas (CMAs) of Moncton, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Peterborough, Kingston, Barrie, Brantford, Kelowna and Abbotsford–Mission. As a result, 1971 built-up areas may be underestimated for these CMAs. Built-up area estimates for other years were taken from Land Use, 1990, 2000 and 2010. 2011 CMA boundaries were used for all years.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2016, special tabulation of data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), 1999, Canada Land Inventory: Land Use (circa 1966), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/cli_250k/landuse/ (accessed September 15, 2015); NRCan, CCRS, 1999, CLUMP: Land Use (1971), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/clump/clump_1971/ (accessed September 15, 2015); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18e3ef1a-497c-40c6-8326-aac1a34a0dec (accessed September 16, 2015).
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