Place Name Master File (PN), 1991 Census Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: The 1991 Place Name Master File (PNMF) is a digital product which provides population and dwelling counts for census subdivisions (CSDs) and unincorporated places (UPs) linked to enumeration areas (EAs). In addition, the current version of the PNMF also provides over 21,000 other place names (PNs) linked to standard geographic areas through the Standard Geographical Classification (SGC). Each point represents a record in the PNMF. The original dataset is available from Statistics Canada as a text files (.txt). For view in Scholars Portal, the dataset was converted from this original format into a Shapefile using the point coordinates available for each record. Each point is the population centre of an Enumeration Area. The original data, and other supporting files and documentation, are available as additional downloads from Scholars GeoPortal.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2016-05-26

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  

  Series

  Name: Statistics Canada, Place Name Master File

  
  

  Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada

  Statistics Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: boundaries

  Keywords:

  Boundaries, Census, Urban areas, Dwellings, Population

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Dataset Language: eng

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -140.879269

  East Longitude: -52.685013

  North Latitude: 76.395809

  South Latitude: 41.758742

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: curve

  Object Count: 42938

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

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

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  The files were converted from text files (.txt) into an ESRI Shapefile (.shp) for view and download on Scholars GeoPortal.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), Statistics Canada Ottawa Ontario, Canada