Description: The 2021 Agricultural Ecumene Boundary File represents Canada’s agricultural ecumene. Ecumene is a term used by geographers to indicate inhabited land, or utilized by humans. Statistics Canada applies this definition in agriculture to designate the regions where the country’s main agricultural activities take place.
Description: Census consolidated subdivisions 2021
A census consolidated subdivision (CCS) is a group of adjacent census subdivisions within the same census division. Generally, the smaller, more densely-populated census subdivisions (towns, villages, etc.) are combined with the surrounding, larger, more rural census subdivision, in order to create a geographic level between the census subdivision and the census division.