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Open Data

Canada: Open Government Information and Data
Site has 120,000 data sets that are freely available for anyone to use. They are from ten departments: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Environment Canada; Department of Finance Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Library and Archives Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Statistics Canada; Transport Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat.
2011 Census of Population
Profile and analytical tables from the Census are available on many topics.
Available under Open License for use and reuse by anyone

Statistics Canada Data Portal (formerly CANSIM)
Statistics Canadas key socioeconomic database. Access data tables, microdata, statistical profiles, maps, visualizations, reports, and other products from Statistics Canada. Topics include Aboriginal peoples, agriculture, business, children and youth, crime and justice, culture and leisure, economy, education, environment, immigration, households and housing, government, health, income, pensions, spending, information and communications technology, labour, languages, population and demography, society and community, transportation, travel, tourism, and more.
This is an Open Access resource freely available on the Internet.

openparliament.ca
Not sponsored by the Government of Canada.

About Open Data

Open data catalogues provide curated, machine-readable (e.g. xml) shareable (free, public domain or creative commons licensed) listed, data sets. Curators are responsible for data integrity and version control. Datasets can be used by anyone to create apps, map, visualizations, etc.