The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure is a pan-Canadian, multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional effort to develop a set of interrelated databases centred on data from the 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941 and 1951 Canadian censuses. The long term plan is that these databases will be joined to other data that cover the periods from 1871 to 1901, and from 1961 to 2001.

The CCRI project successfully ran from 2003 to 2009, based at 7 university centres across Canada. Since its completion, the different components of the project are hosted in a number of different locations: the main site at the University of Alberta, as well as sites at CIEQ (Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises at Université Laval and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), and at the University of Toronto. Proposals are going forward to consolidate and enhance this work.

A gateway website is hosted at the University of Alberta.
http://ccri.library.ualberta.ca/

Distribution page for CCRI Geographic reference maps in PDF format:
http://mercator.geog.utoronto.ca/ccri/referencemaps.htm
Reference maps of all the Census Subdistricts as used for Geocoding in the CCRI project
have been completed, and are available to download in PDF format. The PDF map files have
a selectable map layer for attributes of the Census Subdistricts.
For more information contact Byron Moldofsky: byron@geog.utoronto.ca

Distribution of CCRI Geographic reference (GIS) layers:
The GIS layers have been completed for the CCRI project, and are available to researchers in
ESRI shapefile format.
To request files please download and fill out this form and submit by email:
Distribution of CCRI GIS data from GIS and Cart office.doc
For more information contact Byron Moldofsky: byron@geog.utoronto.ca
You will be sent the url and password to access the files.