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Subject:        1951 Census boundaries for Canadian cities
Date:   Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:03:30 -0700
From:   Tom Brittnacher <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   The University of British Columbia Library
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UBC Library has scanned and digitized the 1951 census boundary maps
found in Statistics Canada bound volumes.  The census tract and census
metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries were digitized in ArcGIS shapefile
format for 16 Canadian metropolitan areas:
Calgary
Edmonton
Halifax
Hamilton
London
Montreal
Ottawa
Quebec
Regina
Saint John
St. John's
Saskatoon
Toronto
Vancouver
Victoria
Winnipeg

The shapefiles are available to the general public through the online
data server /Abacus/:
http://abacus.library.ubc.ca/jspui/handle/10573/42754

As the original maps were not drawn to scale, much work went into
creating the datasets with as much accuracy as possible using other
sources from the time period.  If you know of any other resources that
would further help delineate accurate 1951 census boundaries, please
advise the Data Services and GIS staff at UBC Library:
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Thanks,
Tom

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Tom Brittnacher, GISP
GIS Librarian

University of British Columbia
Walter C. Koerner Library
1958 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z2
(604) 827-4450
(604) 822-9122 fax
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