Data and sources

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. It also contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; the Open Government Licences of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario; and the open government licences of Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Ottawa, Regina and Toronto. Other records come under the MIT Licence, the OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence and the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0). Some records are in the public domain under CC0 1.0.

To reuse a record, credit its source the way its licence asks, and link the page on this site you took it from.

We use 54 more sources only to cross-check what is here. The site shows nothing from them.

Who the public bodies are, how they relate to each other, and their official websites.

• AI Answers programmable-search domain allowlist

  Canadian Digital Service

  MIT

• Alberta schools and authorities (authority list)

  Alberta Education and Childcare

  Open Government Licence - Alberta

• Crown and other government links (Manitoba)

  Government of Manitoba

  OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence

• Data Reference Standard on Government of Canada Organization Names and Codes (concordance)

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• Departments (Manitoba)

  Government of Manitoba

  OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence

• First Nations locations (Indigenous Services Canada)

  Indigenous Services Canada

  OGL-Canada

• GC InfoBase Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• GC Service Inventory (service identification and metrics)

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• GEDS open data, reduced to organizational units

  Shared Services Canada

  OGL-Canada

• Hospital Services in Alberta, general hospitals (approved hospitals list)

  Alberta Health, Health Facilities Planning Branch

  OGL-Alberta

• List of charities 2024, identification and web addresses (Canada Revenue Agency)

  Canada Revenue Agency

  OGL-Canada

• List of provincial agencies (Ontario)

  Government of Ontario

  OGL-Ontario

• Manitoba School Divisions

  Government of Manitoba (Manitoba Education and Director of Surveys), via the Manitoba GeoPortal

  OGL-Manitoba

• Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (MOHSERLO), hospitals and public health units (Ontario)

  Ontario Ministry of Health (served through Land Information Ontario)

  OGL-Ontario

• MSSS M02 list of health and social services establishments (Liste des établissements) (Québec)

  Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux

  CC BY 4.0

• MSSS M02 list of health and social services installations (Liste des installations) (Québec)

  Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux

  CC BY 4.0

• Municipalities (Ontario)

  Government of Ontario

  OGL-Ontario

• Official websites found and checked by Canada Service Map

  XY Space

  CC BY 4.0

• Official websites from Wikidata, for bodies matched to a Wikidata item

  Wikidata, compiled by XY Space

  CC0

• Public Post-Secondary Education Institutions (Manitoba)

  Manitoba Advanced Education and Training

  OGL-Manitoba

• Public Sector Universe (all reference years; active units have no last year)

  Statistics Canada

  Statistics Canada Open Licence

• Québec school bodies, colleges and universities (Localisation des établissements d'enseignement)

  Ministère de l'Éducation and Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur

  CC BY 4.0

• Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (MUN.csv)

  Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation

  CC BY 4.0

• Répertoire des municipalités du Québec, regional county municipalities (MRC_CM_Arg.csv)

  Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation

  CC BY 4.0

• Research Organization Registry (ROR) data dump, Canadian organizations

  Research Organization Registry (California Digital Library, Crossref and DataCite)

  CC0 1.0

• School board and school authority contact information (Ontario)

  Ontario Ministry of Education

  OGL-Ontario

• Wikidata, Canadian public bodies (four queries)

  Wikimedia Foundation and contributors

  CC0

Hospitals, clinics, schools, libraries, recreation centres, service counters, police and fire stations, and courthouses.

• Building Symbols (recreation facilities, community centres, libraries), Halifax Regional Municipality

  Halifax Regional Municipality

  OGL-Halifax

• Casernes de pompiers (fire stations), Québec

  Ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec

  CC-BY-4.0

• City Facilities, protective services layer (fire and police stations), City of Ottawa

  City of Ottawa

  OGL-Ottawa

• City Facilities, recreation layer (community centres, recreation complexes, arenas, indoor pools), City of Ottawa

  City of Ottawa

  OGL-Ottawa

• Court Locations, British Columbia

  Court Services Branch, BC Ministry of Attorney General

  OGL-BC

• Department of Justice, Justice Centres and Courts, Nova Scotia

  Nova Scotia Department of Justice

  OGL-Nova Scotia

• Desserte de la Sûreté du Québec, bureaux (provincial police offices), Québec

  Sûreté du Québec

  CC-BY-4.0

• Directory of Federal Real Property, RCMP detachments

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• Fire Station Locations, City of Edmonton

  City of Edmonton

  OGL-Edmonton

• First Responders (police, fire halls, ambulance), British Columbia

  GeoBC, Government of British Columbia

  OGL-BC

• Indoor Ice Rinks, City of Toronto

  City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation

  OGL-Toronto

• Latitude and longitude of Ontario courthouses

  Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General

  OGL-Ontario

• Lieux et bâtiments à vocation publique (arenas, pools, libraries, community and sports centres, splash pads), Ville de Montréal

  Ville de Montréal

  CC-BY-4.0

• List of SNB Service Centres

  Service New Brunswick

  OGL-New Brunswick

• Manitoba hospitals missing from the open provincial lists (compiled from Wikidata and federal open data)

  XY Space, compiled from Wikidata, Natural Resources Canada and Statistics Canada

  CC0 (Wikidata items) and OGL-Canada (NRCan Geolocation service, ODHF)

• Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (ODCAF), version 1.0

  Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment)

  OGL-Canada

• Open Database of Educational Facilities (ODEF), version 2.1

  Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment)

  OGL-Canada

• Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF), version 2.0

  Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment)

  OGL-Canada

• Open Database of Recreational and Sport Facilities (ODRSF), version 1.0

  Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment)

  OGL-Canada

• Parks and Amenities (arenas, pools, leisure and neighbourhood centres, spray pads, outdoor rinks), City of Regina

  City of Regina

  OGL-Regina

• Parks and Recreation Facilities (community centres), City of Toronto

  City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation

  OGL-Toronto

• Police Station Locations, City of Edmonton

  City of Edmonton

  OGL-Edmonton

• Recreation Facilities (arenas, aquatic and leisure centres, outdoor pools, spray parks, skate parks), City of Calgary

  City of Calgary

  OGL-Calgary

• Rural Health Care Facilities in Manitoba

  Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care, via the Manitoba GeoPortal (ArcGIS Online)

  OGL-Manitoba (OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence)

• Service BC Office Locations

  Service BC, BC Ministry of Citizens' Services

  OGL-BC

• Service Canada Centres from the federal office directory (Burolis, 2018-03-31), geocoded

  XY Space, compiled from Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat open data and Natural Resources Canada's Geolocation service

  OGL-Canada

The short description on each public body's page, and the population of each municipality.

• GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)

  Open Government Licence - Canada

• Statistics Canada, Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), table 98-10-0002-01, 2021 Census of Population

  Statistics Canada Open Licence

• Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)

  CC0 1.0

For the descriptions, a script queries Wikidata through QLever, the University of Freiburg's public Wikidata service, because Wikidata's own query service asks scripts not to use it. When no source has a description, the page gives one plain sentence built from the body's own record.

The facts on service pages, like fees, steps and processing times, and the benefit payment dates come from the official page each one names. That page and the date it was checked sit next to each fact.

These 31 sources are approved for use, but nothing from them is on the site yet. Each row shows what its publisher says about reuse.

• Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries

  Natural Resources Canada

  OGL-Canada

• Agencies, boards and commissions, alphabetical list (Manitoba)

  Government of Manitoba

  OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence

• AI Answers department list

  Canadian Digital Service

  MIT

• Alberta municipal officials directory

  Government of Alberta

  OGL-Alberta

• Canada.ca topic tree

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• Canadian Classification of Functions of Government (CCOFOG 2014)

  Statistics Canada

  Statistics Canada Open Licence

• Census boundary files

  Statistics Canada

  Statistics Canada Open Licence

• Census subdivisions (Standard Geographical Classification)

  Statistics Canada

  Statistics Canada Open Licence

• Child and Family Services authorities and mandated agencies (Manitoba)

  Manitoba Families

  OGL-Manitoba

• Community government funding (Northwest Territories)

  NWT Department of Municipal and Community Affairs

  Open Government Licence - Northwest Territories

• Electricity distributors: service areas mapping data (Ontario Energy Board)

  Ontario Energy Board

  OGL-Ontario

• EU eGovernment Benchmark life events and CPSV-AP code lists

  European Commission

  CC BY 4.0 (CPSV-AP); the Life Events vocabulary page states no licence

• Federal Identity Program applied titles registry

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• Financial Information Return, Schedule 76: municipal government business enterprises (Ontario)

  Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

  OGL-Ontario

• GC InfoBase programs

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• K-12 school division boundaries of Saskatchewan (public, separate and francophone)

  Saskatchewan Ministry of Education

  GOS Standard Unrestricted Use Data Licence 2.0

• List of service managers (Ontario), including District Social Services Administration Boards

  Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

  OGL-Ontario

• Local advisory areas (Yukon)

  Geomatics Yukon

  Open Government Licence - Yukon

• MAMH municipal directory: list of paramunicipal bodies (Liste des organismes périmunicipaux) (Québec)

  Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation

  CC BY 4.0

• Manitoba Annual Report and Public Accounts 2025-26: Government Reporting Entity (Schedule 8)

  Manitoba Finance (Office of the Provincial Comptroller)

  OGL-Manitoba

• Manitoba Licensed Personal Care Homes

  Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care (Licensing and Compliance Branch), via the Manitoba GeoPortal

  OGL-Manitoba

• Municipal boundaries (Yukon)

  Geomatics Yukon

  Open Government Licence - Yukon

• Municipal codes (Alberta)

  Alberta Municipal Affairs

  Open Government Licence - Alberta

• Municipalities (Manitoba)

  Government of Manitoba, via DataMB

  OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence

• Municipalities and Local Service Districts, 2014 (Newfoundland and Labrador)

  Open Data NL (Economics and Statistics Branch)

  Open Government Licence - Newfoundland and Labrador

• Municipalities, legally defined administrative areas (British Columbia)

  GeoBC (custodian: Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs)

  Open Government Licence - British Columbia

• Open Civic Data division identifiers, Canada

  Open Civic Data

  CC0 1.0

• Open Government Portal organizations

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

  OGL-Canada

• Public Accounts of Canada, enterprise Crown corporations and other government business enterprises

  Public Services and Procurement Canada (Receiver General for Canada)

  OGL-Canada

• Regional districts, legally defined administrative areas (British Columbia)

  GeoBC (custodian: Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs)

  Open Government Licence - British Columbia

• Yukon Public Accounts 2024-25: government reporting entity (Note 2(a))

  Government of Yukon, Department of Finance (Office of the Comptroller)

  OGL-Yukon

Look things up with the JSON API, or the MCP server for AI assistants. Every page also has a Markdown copy at its address plus .md, and a JSON copy at .json.

There is no bulk download. The API and the MCP server return at most 25 results a request, each with a link to its page.