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Explore Our Maps
Map Topics |
- Environment
- This section explores the physical geography of Canada. Discover the country’s geology, its important water resources, and its ecology. Learn about Canada’s land cover with maps on relief, vegetation, ecozones, permafrost and surficial materials. Find out where natural hazards such as avalanches, volcanoes and major floods prevail in Canada. Observe Canada’s climate and how it is likely to change over the next century.
- People & Society
- This section explores subjects that describe the Canadian population including aspects of their cultural environment. Languages, Population Distribution, Age Structure and highlights of the Canadian Family provide a snapshot of the Canadian demographics including related characteristics. Examples of Canadian Society are introduced through the investigation of Aboriginal Populations and a complete profile of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut, is presented in the context of the Nunavut population, their society and their physical and economic environment.
- Economy
- This section explores subjects that describe the economic activities of people, including aspects of how they make a living, the patterns of production, and the distribution and consumption of goods and services.
- History
- Historical geography is the study of spatial patterns of the past and how these patterns have evolved over time.
- Climate Change
- Over the past 150 years, abundant scientific data has demonstrated that the earth's climate has become warmer, and that the warming has been accelerating over the past two decades. This change in the climate has become a global issue of concern. This map series aims to provide policy makers, researchers and the general public with a geographical perspective to climate change. The series also attempts to integrate human activities and the environment, and links science and government policy.
- Freshwater
- Water covers nearly three-quarters of the earth's surface, mainly in oceans but also as rivers, lakes, snow and glaciers. Water is also found in the atmosphere and underground. Over 97% of the earth's water is salty with the remainder in various forms of freshwater.
- Health
- This series of 21 health related maps is grouped into five themes: Health Resources, Health Status, Non-Medical Determinants of Health, Health Behaviours and Health Services Utilization.
What is the status of rural health in Canada? What are the influences on the health of those living in rural areas? Check out our new “Rural Health” maps listed below.
- Reference Maps
- Reference maps encompass international, national and provincial maps in addition to basic black and white outline maps that include capital city locations and/or names.
- Map Archives
- This Archive section contains 943 maps from seven previously printed collections. They include all five past editions of the Atlas of Canada, 1906 to 1995, the Canadian sector of the International Map of the World, 1956 to 1987, and the first Glacier Atlas of Canada, 1969 to 1972. The mapping scales are varied and range from small overviews at 1: 30 000 000 to more detailed ones at 1: 1 000 000. The maps contained in this section are scans of the original printed maps that are made easy to view using current viewing technology that offers a number of tools to explore them. These tools include zooming in and out, panning or moving the map left, right, up or down and a special print tool. These will allow you to explore all the detail contained in these exceptional historical maps dating as far back as 1906.
- Topographic Maps
- One of the Atlas of Canada’s special 100th Anniversary projects is offering topographical maps for all of Canada. These new maps are the next generation of the Centre for Topographic Information’s very successful Toporama product. The National Topographic System (NTS) provides general-purpose topographic map coverage of Canada. These maps depict, in detail, ground relief (landforms and terrain), drainage (lakes and rivers), forest cover, administrative areas, populated areas, transportation routes and facilities (including roads and railways), and other constructed features. The maps show data from the 1:250 000 and 1:50 000 National Topographic Databases.
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