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CMAs and CAs subdivided into census tracts. * Denotes “part of”. ** new entity from 2006, updated in its creation year. *** new entity from 2006, updated after its creation year. 4 Statistics Canada Standard Geographical Classifi cation (SGC), 2011, Volume I Status The Standard Geographical Classifi cation (SGC) 2011 is the current departmental standard and was approved on May 16, 2011. Preface The Standard Geographical Classifi cation (SGC) is Statistics Canada’s offi cial classifi cation for geographic areas in Canada. The SGC covers all of the provinces and territories of Canada. This classifi cation provides names and codes for the geographical regions of Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions (counties, regional municipalities), census subdivisions (municipalities), census metropolitan categories (census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, outside census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations) and economic regions. The SGC was developed to enable the production of integrated statistics by geographic area. It provides a range of geographic units that are convenient for data collection and compilation, and useful for spatial analysis of economic and social statistics. It is intended primarily for the classifi cation of statistical units, such as establishments or households, whose activities are normally associated with a specifi c location. The classifi cation consists of two parts, volume I and volume II. Volume I describes the classifi cation and related standard areas and place names. It also explains the changes between the 2011 edition of the SGC and the 2006 edition that impact directly upon the SGC, such as changes in name, type, or code, and indicates how the new and old codes relate to one another. Volume II contains reference maps showing the locations and boundaries of the standard geographic areas in the classifi cation. Concordances between the 2011 classifi cation and the 2006 classifi cation as well as annual changes in the census subdivision names, types and codes are also available. The 2011 Standard Geographical Classifi cation is published by Standards Division, under the guidance of Alice Born, Director. The primary authors of this publication are Kaveri Mechanda and Richard Fortin. The Internet version of this publication was created jointly with Sylvain Boucher and Niloufar Zanganeh. Major contributors included: • Geography Division, which was responsible for the source data for the tables, defi ning the geographic areas and for the preparation of the maps; • System Engineering Division, which was responsible for a database containing this classifi cation and its dynamic publication on the Internet; and • Dissemination Division, which was responsible for setting PDF tables and text formats. Standard Geographical Classifi cation (SGC), 2011, Volume I Statistics Canada 5 Table of contents Page Status 5 Preface 5 What’s new? 7 The Standard Geographical Classifi cation 2011 8 Conceptual framework and defi nitions 8 Classifi cation structure and codes 10 Updates and concordances 14 Classifi cation variants 21 Statistical Area Classifi cation – Variant of SGC 2011 21 Statistical Area Classifi cation by Province and Territory – Variant of SGC 2011 23 Economic Regions – Variant of SGC 2011 24 Presentation of classifi cation and related maps 26 Volume I, The Classifi cation 26 Volume II, Reference Maps 28 References 28 Tables 1. Provinces and territories in numerical order, by geographical region, 2011 29 2. Census divisions in numerical order, by province and territory, 2011 30 3. Census divisions in alphabetical order, by province and territory, 2011 33 4. Census divisions and census subdivisions in numerical order, by province and territory, 2011 36 5. Census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census metropolitan infl uenced zones in alphabetical order, by census metropolitan category, 2011 90 6. Census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, census metropolitan infl uenced zones and their component census subdivisions in alphabetical order, by census metropolitan category and, by province and territory, 2011 92 7. Economic regions and their component census divisions in numerical order, by province and territory, 2011 180 8. Index of place names with associated census subdivision code, by province and territory, 2011 187 Appendices 1. Changes to census subdivision codes, names and types, between 2006 and 2011, by province and territory, in 2006 code order 527 2. Changes to census subdivision codes, names and types, between 2006 and 2011, by province and territory, in 2011 code order 545 3. Annual changes to census subdivision codes, names and types, between 2006 and 2011, by province and territory, and by year 561 4. Annual revisions to 2006 census population counts of census subdivisions affected by a change, by province and territory 581 6 Statistics Canada Standard Geographical Classifi cation (SGC), 2011, Volume I What’s new? 1) Statistical Area Classifi cation – Variant of SGC 2011 The 2011 version of the SGC includes signifi cant structural changes to the classifi cation. This structural revision This classification variant covers all of Canada was undertaken to formally recognize and standardize outside census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and geographic areas commonly used in the publication census agglomerations (CAs) with the inclusion of of Statistics Canada data as well as to ensure that the census metropolitan infl uenced zones (MIZs). The classifi cation variants concerning census metropolitan classifi cation variant meets the classifi cation principle areas meet the classifi cation