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Last updated October 16, 2026

Draft — under legal review. This text is being prepared with our lawyer and may change before launch.

Postal areas, town names and distances on PLMBR are built from Statistics Canada open data.

Source

Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census – Boundary files (Census forward sortation areas; Census subdivisions; Population centres) and 2021 Census – Geographic Attribute File (Catalogue no. 92-151-X), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Products used

  • 2021 Census – Boundary files: Census forward sortation areas©, Digital Boundary Files, reference date 2021
  • 2021 Census – Boundary files: Census subdivisions, Digital Boundary Files, reference date 2021
  • 2021 Census – Boundary files: Population centres, Digital Boundary Files, reference date 2021
  • 2021 Census – Geographic Attribute File, Catalogue no. 92-151-X, reference date 2021

What we changed

  • We use only the first three characters of postal codes (forward sortation areas), never full postal codes.
  • The centre of each area is calculated from the population-weighted representative points of census dissemination areas, so that it falls where people live.
  • Each area is matched to the official English and French name of the municipality its centre lies in.

Licence

The data is used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. We do not use the name, crest or logos of Statistics Canada to suggest any endorsement.

Fonts

PLMBR uses the Manrope typeface. Copyright 2019 The Manrope Project Authors (https://github.com/sharanda/manrope). Manrope is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, which allows free commercial use. The font files are served from our own site, unmodified, and are not sold separately. Our emails use only the fonts already installed on your device.