---
title: "Data and sources"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/data"
description: "Every open data source behind Canada Service Map, with its publisher, licence and link: 54 sources for 7,722 public bodies and 70,520 places to go."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Data and sources

This site is built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Here are the 54 open data sources that feed it, who publishes each one, and its licence. Each record on the site keeps the licence of its source.

By Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026.

## Licences

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.

## Public bodies and their websites

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

- [AI Answers programmable-search domain allowlist](https://github.com/cds-snc/ai-answers), Canadian Digital Service. Licence: MIT.
- [Alberta schools and authorities (authority list)](https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/alberta-education-schools-and-authorities), Alberta Education and Childcare. Licence: Open Government Licence - Alberta.
- [Crown and other government links (Manitoba)](https://www.gov.mb.ca/government/other.html), Government of Manitoba. Licence: OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence.
- [Data Reference Standard on Government of Canada Organization Names and Codes (concordance)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/57180b36-3428-4a7f-afe3-2161a6b44ec5), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Departments (Manitoba)](https://www.gov.mb.ca/government/departments.html), Government of Manitoba. Licence: OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence.
- [First Nations locations (Indigenous Services Canada)](https://geo.sac-isc.gc.ca/geomatics/rest/services/Donnees_Ouvertes-Open_Data/Premiere_Nation_First_Nation/MapServer/0), Indigenous Services Canada. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [GC InfoBase Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [GC Service Inventory (service identification and metrics)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/3ac0d080-6149-499a-8b06-7ce5f00ec56c), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [GEDS open data, reduced to organizational units](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/8ec4a9df-b76b-4a67-8f93-cdbc2e040098), Shared Services Canada. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Hospital Services in Alberta, general hospitals (approved hospitals list)](https://open.alberta.ca/publications/hospital-services-in-alberta), Alberta Health, Health Facilities Planning Branch. Licence: OGL-Alberta.
- [List of charities 2024, identification and web addresses (Canada Revenue Agency)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/80c00cdb-1358-415c-bb8b-0de7f12675b8), Canada Revenue Agency. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [List of provincial agencies (Ontario)](https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/list-of-provincial-agencies), Government of Ontario. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [Manitoba School Divisions](https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/datasets/manitoba::manitoba-school-divisions), Government of Manitoba (Manitoba Education and Director of Surveys), via the Manitoba GeoPortal. Licence: OGL-Manitoba.
- [Ministry of Health Service Provider Locations (MOHSERLO), hospitals and public health units (Ontario)](https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/ministry-of-health-service-provider-locations-mohserlo), Ontario Ministry of Health (served through Land Information Ontario). Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [MSSS M02 list of health and social services establishments (Liste des établissements) (Québec)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/fichiers-cartographiques-m02-des-installations-et-etablissements), Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [MSSS M02 list of health and social services installations (Liste des installations) (Québec)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/fichiers-cartographiques-m02-des-installations-et-etablissements), Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Municipalities (Ontario)](https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/municipalities), Government of Ontario. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [Official websites found and checked by Canada Service Map](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data), XY Space. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Official websites from Wikidata, for bodies matched to a Wikidata item](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P856), Wikidata, compiled by XY Space. Licence: CC0.
- [Public Post-Secondary Education Institutions (Manitoba)](https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ald/uni_coll.html), Manitoba Advanced Education and Training. Licence: OGL-Manitoba.
- [Public Sector Universe (all reference years; active units have no last year)](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/68-516-x/68-516-x2016001-eng.htm), Statistics Canada. Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- [Québec school bodies, colleges and universities (Localisation des établissements d'enseignement)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/localisation-des-etablissements-d-enseignement-du-reseau-scolaire-au-quebec), Ministère de l'Éducation and Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Répertoire des municipalités du Québec (MUN.csv)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/repertoire-des-municipalites-du-quebec), Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Répertoire des municipalités du Québec, regional county municipalities (MRC_CM_Arg.csv)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/repertoire-des-municipalites-du-quebec/resource/bc4e0842-3fe0-4e46-b23f-8218bcff6f72), Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Research Organization Registry (ROR) data dump, Canadian organizations](https://zenodo.org/records/23187250), Research Organization Registry (California Digital Library, Crossref and DataCite). Licence: CC0 1.0.
- [School board and school authority contact information (Ontario)](https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/school-board-and-school-authority-contact-information), Ontario Ministry of Education. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [Wikidata, Canadian public bodies (four queries)](https://www.wikidata.org/), Wikimedia Foundation and contributors. Licence: CC0.

## Places to go

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

- [Building Symbols (recreation facilities, community centres, libraries), Halifax Regional Municipality](https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4d44051e006b457580ab4d86fa30c949), Halifax Regional Municipality. Licence: OGL-Halifax.
- [Casernes de pompiers (fire stations), Québec](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset/31a13f95-e506-43ff-9e4b-219d900409ae), Ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- [City Facilities, protective services layer (fire and police stations), City of Ottawa](https://open.ottawa.ca/), City of Ottawa. Licence: OGL-Ottawa.
- [City Facilities, recreation layer (community centres, recreation complexes, arenas, indoor pools), City of Ottawa](https://open.ottawa.ca/), City of Ottawa. Licence: OGL-Ottawa.
- [Court Locations, British Columbia](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/court-locations), Court Services Branch, BC Ministry of Attorney General. Licence: OGL-BC.
- [Department of Justice, Justice Centres and Courts, Nova Scotia](https://data.novascotia.ca/d/xdjw-yy9m), Nova Scotia Department of Justice. Licence: OGL-Nova Scotia.
- [Desserte de la Sûreté du Québec, bureaux (provincial police offices), Québec](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset/desserte-surete-du-quebec), Sûreté du Québec. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- [Directory of Federal Real Property, RCMP detachments](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/08013e71-101a-457c-af76-c7b13a08ff64), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Fire Station Locations, City of Edmonton](https://data.edmonton.ca/d/b4y7-zhnz), City of Edmonton. Licence: OGL-Edmonton.
- [First Responders (police, fire halls, ambulance), British Columbia](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/first-responders), GeoBC, Government of British Columbia. Licence: OGL-BC.
- [Indoor Ice Rinks, City of Toronto](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/indoor-ice-rinks/), City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation. Licence: OGL-Toronto.
- [Latitude and longitude of Ontario courthouses](https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/849b516b-e355-48e9-89f0-9190598814c9), Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [Lieux et bâtiments à vocation publique (arenas, pools, libraries, community and sports centres, splash pads), Ville de Montréal](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/lieux-batiments-vocation-publique), Ville de Montréal. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- [List of SNB Service Centres](https://gnb.socrata.com/d/5dff-c385), Service New Brunswick. Licence: OGL-New Brunswick.
- [Manitoba hospitals missing from the open provincial lists (compiled from Wikidata and federal open data)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14875035), XY Space, compiled from Wikidata, Natural Resources Canada and Statistics Canada. Licence: CC0 (Wikidata items) and OGL-Canada (NRCan Geolocation service, ODHF).
- [Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (ODCAF), version 1.0](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/lode/databases/odcaf), Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment). Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Open Database of Educational Facilities (ODEF), version 2.1](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/lode/databases/odef), Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment). Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF), version 2.0](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/13-26-0001/132600012020001-eng.htm), Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment). Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Open Database of Recreational and Sport Facilities (ODRSF), version 1.0](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/lode/databases/odrsf), Statistics Canada (Linkable Open Data Environment). Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Parks and Amenities (arenas, pools, leisure and neighbourhood centres, spray pads, outdoor rinks), City of Regina](https://openregina.ca/dataset/parks-and-amenities), City of Regina. Licence: OGL-Regina.
- [Parks and Recreation Facilities (community centres), City of Toronto](https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/parks-and-recreation-facilities/), City of Toronto, Parks, Forestry and Recreation. Licence: OGL-Toronto.
- [Police Station Locations, City of Edmonton](https://data.edmonton.ca/d/e7aq-scxv), City of Edmonton. Licence: OGL-Edmonton.
- [Recreation Facilities (arenas, aquatic and leisure centres, outdoor pools, spray parks, skate parks), City of Calgary](https://data.calgary.ca/d/hxfu-6d96), City of Calgary. Licence: OGL-Calgary.
- [Rural Health Care Facilities in Manitoba](https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0562249d2ee649f897ccea5725edc0c2), Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care, via the Manitoba GeoPortal (ArcGIS Online). Licence: OGL-Manitoba (OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence).
- [Service BC Office Locations](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/service-bc-office-locations), Service BC, BC Ministry of Citizens' Services. Licence: OGL-BC.
- [Service Canada Centres from the federal office directory (Burolis, 2018-03-31), geocoded](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/fe02caa3-44e4-4eb6-a7fa-1521f866d86f), XY Space, compiled from Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat open data and Natural Resources Canada's Geolocation service. Licence: OGL-Canada.

## Descriptions and populations

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)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.
- [Statistics Canada, Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), table 98-10-0002-01, 2021 Census of Population](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000201). Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- [Wikidata (structured data only: description, instance of, inception, parent organization, population)](https://www.wikidata.org). Licence: CC0 1.0.

For the descriptions, a script queries Wikidata through [QLever](https://qlever.dev/), 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.

## Service facts and payment dates

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.

## Approved, not on the site yet

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](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/522b07b9-78e2-4819-b736-ad9208eb1067), Natural Resources Canada. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Agencies, boards and commissions, alphabetical list (Manitoba)](https://www.gov.mb.ca/government/abc/alphalist.html), Government of Manitoba. Licence: OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence.
- [AI Answers department list](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cds-snc/ai-answers/main/agents/prompts/scenarios/departments_EN.js), Canadian Digital Service. Licence: MIT.
- [Alberta municipal officials directory](https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/alberta-municipal-officials-directory), Government of Alberta. Licence: OGL-Alberta.
- [Canada.ca topic tree](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/5df94ada-6659-4bab-8a26-2a990c135380), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Canadian Classification of Functions of Government (CCOFOG 2014)](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/5218_D3_V4), Statistics Canada. Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- [Census boundary files](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/geo/sip-pis/boundary-limites/index2021-eng.cfm?year=21), Statistics Canada. Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- [Census subdivisions (Standard Geographical Classification)](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/statistical-programs/document/sgc-cgt-2021-structure-eng.csv), Statistics Canada. Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- [Child and Family Services authorities and mandated agencies (Manitoba)](https://www.gov.mb.ca/fs/childfam/cfsagencies.html), Manitoba Families. Licence: OGL-Manitoba.
- [Community government funding (Northwest Territories)](https://opendata.gov.nt.ca/dataset/community-government-funding), NWT Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. Licence: Open Government Licence - Northwest Territories.
- [Electricity distributors: service areas mapping data (Ontario Energy Board)](https://www.oeb.ca/open-data/electricity-and-natural-gas-distributors-service-areas-mapping-data), Ontario Energy Board. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [EU eGovernment Benchmark life events and CPSV-AP code lists](https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/semic-support-centre/solution/core-public-service-vocabulary-application-profile), European Commission. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (CPSV-AP); the Life Events vocabulary page states no licence.
- [Federal Identity Program applied titles registry](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/83320390-7715-43bc-a281-2049bf5d4232), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Financial Information Return, Schedule 76: municipal government business enterprises (Ontario)](https://efis.fma.csc.gov.on.ca/fir/index.php/en/open-data/fir-by-schedule-and-year/), Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [GC InfoBase programs](https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f/resource/8d3cd22d-15b0-468a-bb75-c1e736107c45/download/programs.csv), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [K-12 school division boundaries of Saskatchewan (public, separate and francophone)](https://gis.saskatchewan.ca/arcgis/rest/services/Education/SchoolsAndDivisions/MapServer), Saskatchewan Ministry of Education. Licence: GOS Standard Unrestricted Use Data Licence 2.0.
- [List of service managers (Ontario), including District Social Services Administration Boards](https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/list-of-service-managers), Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Licence: OGL-Ontario.
- [Local advisory areas (Yukon)](https://open.yukon.ca/data/local-advisory-areas), Geomatics Yukon. Licence: Open Government Licence - Yukon.
- [MAMH municipal directory: list of paramunicipal bodies (Liste des organismes périmunicipaux) (Québec)](https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/repertoire-des-municipalites-du-quebec/resource/b8ad19c5-3ac7-4a9a-b964-6d9b3fa25f73), Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- [Manitoba Annual Report and Public Accounts 2025-26: Government Reporting Entity (Schedule 8)](https://www.gov.mb.ca/asset_library/en/finances/annual-report-and-public-accounts-2025-26.pdf), Manitoba Finance (Office of the Provincial Comptroller). Licence: OGL-Manitoba.
- [Manitoba Licensed Personal Care Homes](https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/datasets/manitoba::manitoba-licence-personal-care-homes), Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care (Licensing and Compliance Branch), via the Manitoba GeoPortal. Licence: OGL-Manitoba.
- [Municipal boundaries (Yukon)](https://open.yukon.ca/data/municipal-boundaries), Geomatics Yukon. Licence: Open Government Licence - Yukon.
- [Municipal codes (Alberta)](https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/municipal-codes), Alberta Municipal Affairs. Licence: Open Government Licence - Alberta.
- [Municipalities (Manitoba)](https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/api/download/v1/items/8b64285c3bf6445a8d0d8ea4a1c43849/csv?layers=0), Government of Manitoba, via DataMB. Licence: OpenMB Information and Data Use Licence.
- [Municipalities and Local Service Districts, 2014 (Newfoundland and Labrador)](https://opendata.gov.nl.ca/public/opendata/page/?page-id=datasetdetails&id=265), Open Data NL (Economics and Statistics Branch). Licence: Open Government Licence - Newfoundland and Labrador.
- [Municipalities, legally defined administrative areas (British Columbia)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc), GeoBC (custodian: Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs). Licence: Open Government Licence - British Columbia.
- [Open Civic Data division identifiers, Canada](https://github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/tree/master/identifiers/country-ca), Open Civic Data. Licence: CC0 1.0.
- [Open Government Portal organizations](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/organization), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Public Accounts of Canada, enterprise Crown corporations and other government business enterprises](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ae2dd6b8-e846-4158-980b-41c9dfc63073), Public Services and Procurement Canada (Receiver General for Canada). Licence: OGL-Canada.
- [Regional districts, legally defined administrative areas (British Columbia)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/regional-districts-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc), GeoBC (custodian: Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs). Licence: Open Government Licence - British Columbia.
- [Yukon Public Accounts 2024-25: government reporting entity (Note 2(a))](https://open.yukon.ca/information/2024-25-public-accounts), Government of Yukon, Department of Finance (Office of the Comptroller). Licence: OGL-Yukon.

## Use the data

Look things up with [the JSON API, or the MCP server for AI assistants](https://canadaservicemap.ca/developers). 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.

Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Data and sources", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/data