Title: Interim list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names.

Series title:

Principal investigator(s): Statistics Canada. Geography Division.

Producer: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Geography Division. (92F0009XPB)

Date of creation: 2010-03-29 [latest]

Funding agency:

Collector:

Distributor: Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative

Date of distribution: 2010-05-04 [latest]

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only. See DLI licence.

Summary: Each Interim List provides a summary of the changes to census subdivisions (eg. municipal boundary changes) in effect in each calendar year period. Municipal changes information is received through provincial/territorial gazettes, letters patent, and orders-in-council. This information is processed by Statistics Canada's Geography Division. This report represents the changes which have been processed by the Geography Division based on the information received and, therefore, does not include all the changes which may have occurred in each time period.

Keywords:

Geographic coverage: Canada, census subdivisions (CSDs)

Time period: 1974-2010

Periodicity:

Date(s) of collection: 1974-2010

Universe:

Data type: metadata

Sample:

Unit of observation: census subdivison

Mode of collection: process-produced.

Notification of the changes that take place during each period are obtained from the provincial gazette and statutes, the orders of the Municipal Board, and special provincial acts.

Boundary changes are compiled from legal descriptions and accompanying sketch maps onto a digital compilation base map which is maintained by thge Geography Division, using the best available information. Copies of these maps are sent for verification to the municipal authority in each province/territory on an annual basis. Any corrections or additional changes reported back to the Geography Division are represented in the subsequqnet issue of the Interim List as change types 8, 8C, 9, or 9C (boundary revisions).

Extent of file: 64 data files (pdf and MS Excel format; number of logical records varies) & accompanying documentation (pdf, MS Word and rtf formats)

Citation: Statistics Canada. Interim list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names, 2008-2009: table 1 [computer file]. Ottawa, Ont.: Statistics Canada [producer]; Statistics Canada. Data Liberation Initiative [distributor], 2009-01 (92F0009XPB)

Notes:

Related data:

• Unrestricted data on Statistics Canada web site 2004/2004 - [latest]
• Supercedes:
  • 1965-1966: List of changes in municipal boundaries between November 19yy and October 19yy (Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Census Division. Geography Section. (G-30, no. 4, 5)(UT: CA1 BS -C35 GOVT)
  • 1968-1972: Changes in municipal boundaries: annual report, Dec. 1968 - Jan. 1973 (Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Census Division. Geography Section. (G-30, no. 6-10)(UT: CA1 BS -C35 GOVT)
  • 1972-1974: Standard geographical classification manual. vol 1: appendices I-III (Statistics Canada, cat. 12-545)
  • 1973-1974: Changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names. Feb. 1976 (Statistics Canada, cat. 12-549)
  • 1975-1986: Changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names. (Statistics Canada, cat. 12-201)
  • 1986-1988: Interim list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names. (Statistics Canada, unnumbered)
  • 1991-    : Interim list of changes to municipal boundaries, status, and names. (Statistics Canada, 92F002XPB?)