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We mapped 7,722 public bodies in Canada. 16% have no website we could find.

For every public body in open data, from federal departments to school boards and First Nations, we looked for a website in the official and open lists, then looked up the rest one by one. 6,491 of the 7,722 have one on record.

By Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026

The numbers

7,722
public bodies, from federal departments to First Nations #
6,491
with a website on record, 84% of them #
70,520
places to go, in 3,193 cities and towns #
140
services, with who handles each one where you live #

What "no website" means here

A body with no website here may still have one. It means no open list we use names one, and we could not find one we could check. Many small bodies have none: villages, improvement districts, water commissions and internal government funds. Some provinces list their agencies' websites only on web pages whose terms may not allow reuse; we copied nothing from those.

By kind of body

Provincial and territorial government bodies have the lowest share of websites on record: 375 of 535 (70%). Federal agencies have the highest: 72 of 72 (100%).

Public bodies with a website on record, by kind of body
Kind of body	With a website	Share
Federal agencies	72 of 72100%	100%
Federal departments	22 of 22100%	100%
Parliament and its offices	13 of 13100%	100%
Universities and colleges	289 of 29399%	99%
School boards	364 of 37098%	98%
Federal Crown and shared-governance corporations	139 of 14894%	94%
Health and social services bodies	206 of 22492%	92%
Public enterprises	241 of 27787%	87%
Hospitals	671 of 79884%	84%
Other federal bodies	49 of 5884%	84%
Local government bodies	3,531 of 4,27483%	83%
First Nations	519 of 63881%	81%
Provincial and territorial government bodies	375 of 53570%	70%

By province and territory

Each body counts in the province or territory it belongs to, and First Nations count where they are. Federal bodies have their own row. Nunavut has the lowest share: 28 of 64 (44%). Ontario has the highest: 1,254 of 1,337 (94%).

Public bodies with a website on record, by province and territory
Government	With a website	Share
Federal government	295 of 31394%	94%
British Columbia	700 of 88579%	79%
Alberta	706 of 78890%	90%
Saskatchewan	824 of 1,07577%	77%
Manitoba	309 of 37682%	82%
Ontario	1,254 of 1,33794%	94%
Quebec	1,633 of 1,87287%	87%
New Brunswick	176 of 20885%	85%
Nova Scotia	187 of 20790%	90%
Prince Edward Island	77 of 10871%	71%
Newfoundland and Labrador	225 of 37460%	60%
Yukon	35 of 4283%	83%
Northwest Territories	42 of 7358%	58%
Nunavut	28 of 6444%	44%

Why the gaps

Public enterprises: Statistics Canada lists city transit systems and utilities under names no list of websites uses, so we found most of their pages one by one, often on their city's site.
Provincial and territorial government: British Columbia withdrew its public directory in August 2026, and for most provinces we found no open list of their agencies' websites.
Hospitals: no hospital list carries websites, and most hospitals outside Ontario are run by a health authority. We link the hospital's own page on its health authority's site where there is one; some authorities have one page for many hospitals.
Local government: the official lists of municipalities we found for Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut carry no websites. The municipal websites we have there come from Wikidata or were found and checked by us, one by one.
Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: we found no open list of municipal or agency websites on their open data portals, so we found them one by one. Prince Edward Island's government site turns away automated checks, so some of its agencies are still missing.

Method

The list of public bodies starts with Statistics Canada's Public Sector Universe, which lists the units of every level of government. Federal bodies come from the federal Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests, and First Nations from Indigenous Services Canada. Hospitals come from provincial lists and Statistics Canada's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.

Websites come first from the official and open lists that name them, matched to each body by name and province. A name that could match two bodies is left unmatched rather than guessed.

For a body no list covers, we used the website of its Wikidata item, or found its website through official directories, the obvious web address or a web search. We kept a website only after loading it: it had to be the body's own site, or its own page on the site of the government that runs it, and the page had to name the body. We reviewed by hand the sites that name a body only by a newer name.

The counts of public bodies and websites are from the data of 14 October 2026. All 54 sources are listed with their licences. We use no personal data: we cut the federal staff directory down to its units as it loads, and keep no names, emails or phone numbers.

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Public bodies in Canada with a website on record, by kind of body: 6,491 of 7,722 in all

Federal agencies		100%
Federal departments		100%
Parliament and its offices		100%
Universities and colleges		99%
School boards		98%
Federal Crown and shared-governance corporations		94%
Health and social services bodies		92%
Public enterprises		87%
Hospitals		84%
Other federal bodies		84%
Local government bodies		83%
First Nations		81%
Provincial and territorial government bodies		70%

Source: Canada Service Map, "Canada's public web: 7,722 public bodies mapped", data of 14 October 2026.

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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Federal agencies</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Federal departments</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:100%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">100%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Parliament and its offices</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:100%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">100%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Universities and colleges</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:99%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">99%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">School boards</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:98%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">98%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Federal Crown and shared-governance corporations</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:94%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">94%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Health and social services bodies</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:92%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">92%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Public enterprises</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:87%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">87%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Hospitals</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:84%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">84%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Other federal bodies</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:84%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">84%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Local government bodies</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:83%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">83%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">First Nations</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:81%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">81%</td>
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      <td style="padding:4px 12px 4px 0">Provincial and territorial government bodies</td>
      <td style="width:40%;padding:4px 0"><div style="height:10px;background:#ebe6dd"><div style="width:70%;height:10px;background:#1b1916"></div></div></td>
      <td style="padding:4px 0 4px 12px;text-align:right;white-space:nowrap">70%</td>
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  <p style="margin:8px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#45413a">Source: <a href="https://canadaservicemap.ca/report/canadas-public-web" style="color:inherit">Canada Service Map, "Canada's public web: 7,722 public bodies mapped"</a>, data of 14 October 2026.</p>
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