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Morgen Peers
In my geographically biased opinion, I view the technical information about a nation's places as the basis for all other analysis. The US Census Bureau makes this information available online. Is there a Canadian equivalent to the openly available US Gazatteer data files? 

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Tracey P. Lauriault
Hey Morgan;

My old colleague Doug, Canada's place name guys has an answer to your question:

Tracey,

"I saw the word gazetteer and immediately thought of NRCan and official place names, etc.  But when I looked at the example I realized that he is looking for statistical information tied to a common, named geography.  This is StatCan.  Their common geography (Census Divisions and Sub-Division) is freely available, as are many of the (2006) census stats tied to this geography.  Are all their stats freely available, or available in a single form as per the example... I am not sure."

Sorry for the incomplete answer.

Doug

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Morgen Peers <[hidden email]> wrote:
In my geographically biased opinion, I view the technical information about a nation's places as the basis for all other analysis. The US Census Bureau makes this information available online. Is there a Canadian equivalent to the openly available US Gazatteer data files? 


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