Population centre tutorial, part 1

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Population centres are created using adjacent dissemination blocks as building blocks. During their delineation, population centres are required to respect census metropolitan areas (CMAs) and census agglomerations (CAs); this means that they cannot overlap CMA or CA boundaries.

Population centres are not required to respect census subdivision (CSD) boundaries. Therefore, population centres may cross municipal boundaries; they may even cross provincial boundaries. In fact, five population centres in Canada cross provincial boundaries: Campbellton (N.B./Que.), Hawkesbury (Ont./Que.), Ottawa - Gatineau (Ont./Que.), Flin Flon (Man./Sask.) and Lloydminster (Sask./Alta.).

Chart Population centres in Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec, 2011 Census

Population centres in and around the Ottawa - Gatineau census metropolitan area, 2011 Census

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Source: Statistics Canada, Geography Division, 2011 Census of Population

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