Table A.2
Arable land and natural and semi-natural land lost to settled area by CMA-ecosystem, 1971 to 2011

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Table A.2 Arable land and natural and semi-natural land lost to settled area by census metropolitan area-ecosystem (CMA-E), 1971 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of Table A.2 Arable land and natural and semi-natural land lost to settled area by census metropolitan area-ecosystem (CMA-E) Arable land and Natural and semi-natural land, calculated using square kilometres units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Arable landNote 1 Natural and semi-natural landNote 2
square kilometres
CMA-ecosystem
Abbotsford–Mission 109 130
Barrie 124 154
Brantford 216 96
Calgary 214 154
Edmonton 402 169
Greater Sudbury 40 259
Guelph 132 80
Halifax 50 297
Hamilton 487 191
Kelowna 43 93
Kingston 83 98
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 214 102
London 256 94
Moncton 52 85
Montréal 448 462
Oshawa 290 155
Ottawa–Gatineau (Ont.) 295 217
Ottawa–Gatineau (Que.) 72 168
Peterborough 70 91
Québec 135 184
Regina 99 48
Saguenay 48 122
Saint John 31 124
Saskatoon 108 48
Sherbrooke 85 130
St. Catharines–Niagara 158 83
St. John's 19 91
Thunder Bay 20 130
Toronto 961 448
Trois-Rivières 131 110
Vancouver 166 296
Victoria 23 73
Windsor 134 24
Winnipeg 194 103
Note 1.

Arable land lost to settled area is calculated by overlaying the growth in settled areas from 1971 to 2011 on the Canada Land Inventory: Land Use (CLI: LU) base layer and, for areas where the 1971 settled area was trimmed, on the area reclassified using AAFC Land Use, 1990. The following CLI: LU classes were included: cropland, improved pasture and forage crops, orchards and vineyards and horticulture. Does not include arable land lost to roads.

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Note 2.

Natural and semi-natural land lost to settled area is calculated by overlaying the growth in settled areas from 1971 to 2011 on the CLI: LU base layer and, for areas where the 1971 settled area was trimmed, on the area reclassified using AAFC Land Use, 1990. The following CLI: LU classes were included: woodlands, rough grazing and rangeland, outdoor recreation areas, rock and unvegetated surfaces, open wetland, water and unmapped areas. Does not include natural and semi-natural land lost to roads.

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Notes: CMA-E are not spatially mutually exclusive—they overlap where a SLC polygon crosses more than one CMA boundary, as is the case in Vancouver and Abbotsford–Mission or Toronto and surrounding CMAs including Hamilton, Oshawa, Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, Guelph, Brantford and Barrie. For this reason, CMA-E data cannot be summed to generate a total and caution should be used when comparing data. See CMA-E maps in Section 3: Ecosystem accounts and statistics by census metropolitan area for a visual representation of the CMA-E boundaries.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2016, special tabulation of data from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), 1999, Canada Land Inventory Level-I Lat/Long Digital Data: CLI Land Use (circa 1966) (1:250,000), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/cli_250k/landuse/ (accessed September 15, 2015); NRCan, CCRS, 1999, Canada Land Use Monitoring Program (CLUMP) UTM Digital Data: CLUMP Land Use (1971) (1:50,000), ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/clump/clump_1971/ (accessed September 15, 2015); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2015, Land Use 1990, 2000 and 2010, http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/18e3ef1a-497c-40c6-8326-aac1a34a0dec (accessed September 16, 2015).


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