Holds historical data for mineral and placer, claims and leases, as well as, coal license applications, licenses and leases within the Province of British Columbia. This layer is utilized by Mineral Titles Online title history on the mineral, placer and coal viewers, respectively.

Fire History

An interactive online atlas that shares culture, history, traditional knowledge and land use of the Gwich'in through place names.

>Warning: as of June 2020, this dataset is no longer updated and has been replaced. Please see https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/fr/dataset/evenements-de-securite-civile for data on civil security events since June 2020. This database brings together in a structured way information related to past claims that have been systematically grouped and centralized by the Ministry of Public Security (MSP). The consequences and evolution of the events are documented and they have been categorized according to their level of impact on the safety of citizens, goods and services to the population based on criteria defined in the Canadian profile of the Common Alert Protocol. It is updated continuously by the MSP Operations Department (DO). This database will allow analyses to be carried out at regional and local levels and can be used by municipalities in the implementation of their emergency measures plans. The event history archives come from event reports and status reports that were produced by the Government Operations Center (COG) and by the regional directorates of the MSP. Among other things, it includes: 1- Observations entered directly into the Geoportal by civil security advisers from regional directorates; 2- A compilation of information recorded in COG event reports and DO status reports distributed to MSP partners since 1996; 3- A compilation of information contained in the files of the regional directorates. This may be information on paper, event reports or field visits, paper or digital maps, etc. The information in this database is in accordance with the Canadian Common Alert Protocol Profile (PC-PAC). The PC-PAC is a set of rules and controlled values that support the translation and composition of a message to make it possible to send it by different means and from different sources. The severity level is an attribute defined in the PC-PAC. It is used to characterize the severity level of the event based on the harm to the lives of people or damage to property. This severity level is defined by the following characteristics: Extreme: extraordinary threat to life or property; Important: significant threat to life or property; Moderate: possible threat to life or property; Minor: low or non-existent threat to life or property; Minor: low or non-existent threat to life or property; Unknown: unknown severity, used among other things during tests and exercises. The emergency level is determined based on the reactive measures that need to be taken in response to the current situation. It is defined by the following characteristics: Immediate: a reactive action must be taken immediately; Planned: a reactive action must be taken soon (within the next hour); Future: a reactive action must be taken in the near future; Past: a reactive measure is no longer necessary; Unknown: Unknown: Unknown emergency, to be used during tests and exercises. The state relates to the context of the event, real or simulated. It is defined by the following characteristics: Current: information on a real event or situation; Exercise: fictional or real information carried out as part of a civil security exercise; Test: technical tests only; to be ignored by all. Certainty is defined by the following characteristics: Observed: would have happened or is currently taking place; Probable: probability of the event happening > 50%; Possible: probability of the event happening < 50%; Unlikely: probability of the event happening around 0%; Unlikely: probability of the event happening around 0%; Unknown: unknown certainty. When an event date was not known, the year 1900-01-01 was recorded. ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTION: Date of observation: date of the event or observation; Type: name of the hazard; Name: name of the municipality; Municipality code: municipal code; State and certainty: as these are real events, the state is generally “current” and the certainty is generally “observed”; Emergency: the term “past” was generally used for events that occurred before the compilation work was carried out; Inprecision: imprecision: imprecision is generally “observed”; Urgency: the term “past” was generally used for events that occurred before the compilation work was carried out; Inaccuracy: imprecision: imprecision precision in a data (the date of the event, its location, the source of the data or none inaccuracy noted).**This third party metadata element was translated using an automated translation tool (Amazon Translate).**

This report outlines the results of a project that created a series of maps tracking inshore historical Lobster fishing district boundaries from 1899 to present. This work has been part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Blue Economy Lobster Team (BELT) pilot project on the Lobster fishery. To provide the context for the use of historical information within fisheries research, this report provides a brief summation of the discipline of history, its purpose, and its methods. It also describes the different ways that historical data has been used to support the analysis of fisheries, and some of the ways that historians have integrated the techniques of natural and social sciences into their own work. It provides an overview of how the BELT has incorporated historical methods and methodologies into the team’s overall work. The report presents two sets of maps that outline geographical changes in Lobster fishing districts (called Lobster Fishing Areas after 1985) as well as changes in minimum legal size (MLS) and season length information. These maps help to inform a larger understanding of the historical Lobster fishery in the present-day Maritimes Region, and highlight several themes within the fishery. This includes the increasingly intensive regulation of the fishery over time, the inshore nature of the Lobster fishery for the majority of the twentieth century, the variability in the boundaries of Lobster districts over time, and the broad transition from a cannery-based market to a live Lobster market. The maps taken as a whole help to demonstrate consistency of the regulatory approach to Lobster over the twentieth century. However, there are limitations to the interpretive capacity of these maps, as more work should be done to investigate the specific reasoning behind why each change occurred.**Note: The outer boundaries depicted from 1899-1974 are not meant to represent areas where DFO or its predecessor departments had complete or authoritative control of the inshore fishery. In past regulations, districts were described as “on and along the coast.” The outer boundaries assigned to maps prior to 1985 were chosen to make the maps easy to understand relative to current lobster fishing areas.

Historic view of areas within the province of British Columbia where mineral, placer and coal titles were once restricted and placer titles are permitted. This business view contains a detailed set of attributes.

644 datasets of hourly meteorological data for all of Canada from various periods (1998 to 2020). The values of the records for solar irradiance are primarily based on satellite-derived solar estimates. This dataset has been updated with the most recent changes made in March 2023. The solar values in these files are based on 0.1° x 0.1° (11 km x 11 km grid) for all of Canada. Refer to Data Resources below for additional information on the CWEEDS file format and revision history.

Canada’s landmass is very diversified and comprises 7 distinctive areas called physiographic regions, each of which has its own unique topography and geology. Physiographic regions are large areas that share similar relief and landforms shaped by common geomorphic processes and geological history. Physiographic regions are often used to describe Canada’s geography to show regional differences in climate, vegetation, population and the economy.This dataset collection contains three interrelated datasets mapping the location of Canada’s 7 different physiographic regions, their 21 subregions and many divisions (landforms).

Data set contains geographical referencing information like: * type of feature or place * location coordinates * geographic township * municipal and map references Also contains places and background information behind their official naming like: * name status * naming date * name origin * naming history This layer used to be distributed under the name "Geographic Name Extent" but was modified to "Geographic Named Extent" in November 2011. [About Geographic Names](https://www.ontario.ca/page/geographic-names)

Layer that includes the known information on harbor seal breeding and feeding areas in the Saguenay Fjord, the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence according to a literature review of documents produced between 1968 and 2001.Additional InformationHarbor seal breeding and feeding areas were produced according to a literature review of the following documents: Andersen, A. et M. Gagnon. 1980. Les ressources halieutiques de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent. Rapp. can. ind. sci. halieut. aquat., 119: iv + 56 p.Communications personnelles par Fournier, C. 1999.Communications personnelles par Gosselin, J-F-. 1996.Communications personnelles par Gosselin. J.-F. 2001.Communications personnelles par Lavigueur, L. 1996.Dignard, N., R. Lalumière, A. Reed et M. Julien. 1991. Les habitats côtiers du nord-est de la Baie James. Publication hors-série no. 70. Environnement Canada, Service canadien de la faune. 30 p. + carte.Enquête auprès des pêcheurs et agents du MEF et du MPO. 1995.Mansfield, A. W. 1968. Seals and walruses. In: Beals, C.S., ed. Science, History and Hudson Bay. Vol. 1. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer. 501 p.