AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
[ARCHIVED] Business Registration Unit Office Locations and Hours

[ARCHIVED] This dataset has been superseded by Access Centres Office Locations & Hours (https://data.novascotia.ca/Public-Service/Access-Centres-Office-Locations-Hours/f35v-t3mg). Listing of provincial Business Registration Unit office locations and hours of operations

Organization: Government of Nova Scotia | Gouvernment de la Nouvelle-Écosse
Data of eelgrass (Zostera marina) and other seagrasses density, physical characteristics, cover, and biomass from Kouchibouguac National Park 

The Common Eelgrass (Zostera marina) monitoring program started in 2024 and follows a modified protocol based on the SeagrassNet protocol (https://www.scribd.com/document/39219811/Sea-Grass-Net-Manual-2006-Worldwide). It intends to track changes at 4 permanent sites composed of 3 transects/site and 12 quadrats/transect. The parameters recorded include percentage cover in a 50 X 50 cm quadrat, density (number of shoots) in a 25 X 25 cm quadrat and above + below ground biomass collected with a core sampler with a diameter of 7 cm. 



Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Qu'Appelle Valley Lakes system – Topography and Imagery 2008

The’ Qu'Appelle Valley Lakes system – Topography and Imagery’ series consists of topographic and imagery data for lakes within the Qu'Appelle River Valley in central Saskatchewan. This data was collected in the fall of 2008 and consists of contour lines, shorelines, spot heights, tile index, and imagery

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Access to Information Act - Annual Reports

The Access to Information Act (ATIA) (Revised Statutes of Canada 1985, Chapter A-1) was proclaimed on July 1, 1983. The ATIA gives Canadian citizens and permanent residents a broad right of access to information contained in government records, subject to certain specific and limited exceptions.

Section 94 of the ATIA stipulates that the head of every government institution shall prepare and submit to parliament an annual report on the administration of the ATIA for each fiscal year.

Consequently, these annual reports are submitted by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying (OCL) in accordance with the ATIA. They describe how the OCL fulfilled its access to information responsibilities during each fiscal year.

In addition, these annual reports are prepared and tabled in accordance with section 20 of the Services Fees Act.

Organization: Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada | Commissariat au lobbying du Canada
Privacy Act - Annual Reports

The Privacy Act (Revised Statute of Canada 1985, Chapter P-21) was proclaimed on July 1, 1983. The Privacy Act extends to individual Canadian citizens and permanent residents, the right of access to information about themselves held by the government, subject to specific and limited exceptions. The Privacy Act also protects the individual's right to privacy by preventing others from having access to personal information and gives individuals substantial control over its collection and use.

Section 72 of the Privacy Act requires that the head of every government institution prepare an annual report on the administration of the Privacy Act within the institution during each financial year for submission to Parliament.

These annual reports are submitted by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying (OCL) in accordance with the Privacy Act. They describe how the OCL fulfilled its responsibilities within each fiscal year.

Organization: Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada | Commissariat au lobbying du Canada
Lake Ontario Prey Fish Trawl Data

This dataset contains Lake Ontario prey fish abundance and distribution statistics, collected every year during spring and fall bottom trawl surveys. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Geological Survey have conducted annual, spring and fall bottom trawl surveys in U.S. waters of Lake Ontario since 1978. In 2015, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry started contributing to this program to include survey coverage in Ontario waters. The ministry also intermittently conducts mid-water trawling during the summer months on a limited geographic area largely confined to the Eastern Basin. The survey has varied sample distribution across lake depths and jurisdictions. The south shore of Lake Ontario has well-distributed coverage of depths between 8 and 200 metres. Coverage along the north shore is less uniform due to a lack of suitable trawl sites at shallower depths.

Organization: Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario
Soil Development by Ecoregion

The National Ecological Framework for Canada's "Soil Development by Ecoregion” dataset contains tables that provide soil development information for components within the ecoregion framework polygon. It provides soil development codes and their English and French-language descriptions as well as the percentage of the polygon that the component occupies.  The soil development descriptions are based on the second edition of the Canadian System of Soil Classification (Agriculture Canada Expert Committee on Soil Survey, 1987).

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Guide to Eating Ontario Fish: Advisory Database

Fish consumption advisories for Ontario's lakes and rivers are available in the Guide to Eating Ontario Fish. The zip file below includes a GIS shapefile of all lake/river locations and a text file of all consumption advisory data from the current edition of the Guide. [Fish consumption advice map](https://ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/eating-ontario-fish) *[GIS]: geographic information systems Keywords: Sport Fish Guide, mercury, PCB, dioxin, furan, metals, PFAS, contaminants

Organization: Government of Ontario | Gouvernement de l'Ontario
HRDPS Forecasted Accumulated Precipitation - 24 & 48 hrs

This feature layer showcases ultra-fine (2.5 km) short-range precipitation forecasts from the High Resolution Deterministic Prediction System (HRDPS), a convection-permitting model by Environment and Climate Change Canada. It identifies local-scale rainfall or snowfall patterns up to 48 hours, supporting urban flood forecasting, severe weather response, and detailed water resource planning.  
  
  Convection-Permitting: The HRDPS can explicitly resolve thunderstorms and other small-scale weather events by running at ~2.5 km. Short-Range Focus: Typically provides forecasts out to 36–48 hours, updated several times daily. Local Impact: Valuable for pinpointing high-impact precipitation in complex terrain or urban environments, aiding emergency managers and hydrologists in short-lead-time decisions. Nested Model: Receives lateral boundary conditions from RDPS, maintaining consistency with regional forecasts while refining detail in local domains.

Organization: Government of Manitoba | Gouvernement du Manitoba
Yearly Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) Withdrawals by Forward Sortation Area 

Educational Assistance Payments (EAPs) are amounts paid from a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) to an eligible youth to assist with post-secondary education expenses. EAPs consist of the Canada Education Savings Grant, the Canada Learning Bond, provincial education savings incentives, and income earned on the money saved in the RESP. Payments to a beneficiary are made according to the specific terms of the RESP. 

  

Post-Secondary Education (PSE) withdrawals are drawn from the contributions made to the youth’s RESP, and exclude education savings incentive amounts and income earned (i.e., EAPs). 

 

The sum of EAPs and PSE withdrawals represents the amount of money available for the beneficiary’s PSE expenses. 

  

This dataset presents the following information by Forward Sortation Area (FSA) for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 which were obtained from the Canada Education Savings Program (CESP) administrative data: 

- EAP amounts for CESP beneficiaries 15 years of age or older; 

- PSE withdrawal amounts for CESP beneficiaries 15 years of age or older; 

- Number of CESP beneficiaries 15 years of age or older who received some EAP and; 

- Number of CESP beneficiaries 15 years of age or older whose subscriber made a PSE withdrawal

 

All population counts of 30 or below (and their corresponding dollar values) are suppressed due to privacy issues and are replaced by an asterisk in the dataset. 



**Please note that the Open Government Portal provides data that add to those already available in the Canada Education Savings Program Annual Statistical Review. The most recent version of the report, which includes data up to 2024, was published on August 5, 2025 and can be found here:** https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/student-financial-aid/education-savings/reports/statistical-review.html

Organization: Employment and Social Development Canada | Emploi et Développement social Canada
HMS Erebus Underwater Archaeological Survey 2018

This research bulletin presents the results of archaeological fieldwork conducted by Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team at the wreck of HMS Erebus in September 2018. The project’s prime objective was to begin excavation of selected areas of the upper and lower decks, while continuing to document the wreck by mapping, photography and video. Unfortunately, Adverse Arctic ice conditions caused the project to be greatly shortened. Two out of four moorings were installed on site for the diving and excavation support barge Qiniqtiryuaq, from which five, two-person dives were staged. Nine artifacts were recovered, including a pitcher, a mercurial artificial horizon roof, and selected rigging elements. Wave action had moved structural timbers since the previous site inspection: recently a large portion of the upper deck had been detached and deposited upside down, further illustrating the dynamic nature of the site. 

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada
Annual Crop Inventory 2024

In 2024, the Earth Observation Team of the Science and Technology Branch (STB) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) repeated the process of generating annual crop inventory digital maps using satellite imagery for all Canadian provinces and the Yukon Territory, in support of a national crop inventory. A Decision Tree (DT) based methodology was applied using optical (Landsat-8, Landsat-9, Sentinel-2), and radar (RCM) based satellite images, and having a final spatial resolution of 30m. In conjunction with satellite acquisitions, ground-truth information was provided by: provincial crop insurance companies in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, & Quebec; point observations from the PEI Department of Environment, Water and Climate Change; and data collection supported by our regional AAFC Research and Development Centres in St. John's, Kentville, Fredericton, Guelph, Summerland and Whitehorse. Forest Fire Perimeter Estimate polygons from Natural Resources Canada’s Canadian Forest Service are used to show burned areas of landcover (Class - 60).

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Cation exchange capacity (meq/100g) - Soil Landscape Grids of Canada, 100m

Predicted cation exchange capacity (meq/100g) at a defined depth range (0–5 cm, 5–15 cm, 15–30 cm, 30–60 cm, 60–100 cm). The interchange of a cation in solution and another cation on the surface of any surface-active material such as clay colloid or organic colloid.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
pH in CaCl2 - Soil Landscape Grids of Canada, 100m

Predicted soil pH in CaCl2 at a defined depth range (0–5 cm, 5–15 cm, 15–30 cm, 30–60 cm, 60–100 cm). The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a soil expressed in terms of the pH scale.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Soil Landscape Grids of Canada, 100m

This data product is currently under evaluation and review. It may contain inaccuracies or be subject to change. Users should exercise caution and discretion when interpreting or relying on this information. The government assumes no liability for any errors or decisions based on this preliminary data. For more details, please see the Government of Canada's Open Commons license (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada).  
  
            The Canadian Soil Information Service has developed a detailed dataset of Canada's soils and associated properties using advanced machine learning techniques. The Soil Landscape Grids of Canada is produced using a combination of historical and current data from both soil sampling and remote sensing. The machine learning model is trained using over 10,000 pedon locations from across Canada as well as 70 covariate datasets. This new dataset is pivotal in addressing the gaps left by legacy soil surveys and facilitates more comprehensive assessments nationwide. As new data becomes available and machine learning techniques advance, this information can be updated much faster than with traditional soil surveying methods.

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Canadian Student Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CSADS): Public Use Microdata File

Every two years, Health Canada conducts the Canadian Student Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CSADS), a cross-sectional survey of students in grades 7 to 12 across the Canadian provinces. 

With tens of thousands of participants each cycle, it is one of the largest youth surveys in the world. For over 30 years, the survey—previously known as the Youth Smoking Survey (YSS; pre-2014) and the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CSTADS; 2014–2022)—has collected data on substance use, perceptions, and wellbeing, providing a rich data source for both trend and intersectional analyses. Summary results from each cycle are available here: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canadian-student-tobacco-alcohol-drugs-survey.html.

The Office of Drug Research and Surveillance releases this Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) to allow researchers, provincial governments, and others to conduct independent analyses of these important data. 

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada
Recalls and Safety Alerts

The Recalls and Safety alerts website is the official Government of Canada centralized website providing information on recalls and safety alerts related to food, consumer products, health products, medical devices, cannabis and vehicles sold in Canada. 

Visitors to the website can view the latest recalls and safety alerts, search new and archived information as well as subscribe to receive immediate or daily notifications via email.

Updated daily, the Recalls and Safety Alerts open dataset provides content for use on third party platforms or applications.

Organization: Health Canada | Santé Canada
Canadian Gridded Homogenized Surface Air Temperature (CanGridT V4)

These gridded daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature datasets (CanGridT dlyV4), as well as their monthly means (CanGridT mlyV4), were generated by interpolating the fourth generation of homogenized daily and monthly surface air temperature data (named CanHomT V4 and also available on this portal; Wan et al., 2025) onto a 10-km EASE grid using a kriging-based gridding scheme (Abbasnezhadi and Wang, 2024; Cheng, 2025). Ordinary kriging was used to grid the stations’ 1961-1990 climatology and temperature anomalies separately. This approach ensures that the resulting gridded dataset contains both temperature values and anomalies, with the temperature values obtained by adding the climatology and anomalies at each grid point. Monthly gridded data are available starting from 1948, and daily data from 1949. These version 4 datasets succeed CanGridT mlyV3.1 and CanGridT dlyV3.1, also available on this portal. Please refer to the README file for instructions on how to read the gridded products. 


References:
Abbasnezhadi, K. and X. L. Wang, 2024: Comparison of gridding methods for precipitation over Canada and assessment of station/data density effects on gridding results. Atmos.-Ocean, 62:4, 320-346, https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.2024.2394829.
Cheng, V. Y. S.,2025: RCanGrid user manual. Climate Research Division, Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada. In Preparation.
Wan, H., A. C., Spassiani & L. A. Vincent, 2025: Canada’s fourth generation of homogenized surface air temperature and its trends for 1948-2023. Atmosphere-Ocean, DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2025.2516796

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Canadian National Report for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management - Canada’s Eighth National Report

Canada’s Eighth National Report demonstrates how Canada continued to meet its obligations under the articles of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management during the reporting period, from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2024. This report is a collaboration between the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), other federal government departments, and industry. It focuses specifically on the progress of long-term management initiatives for spent fuel and radioactive wastes in Canada, revisions and updates to Canada’s Seventh National Report, as well as comments and issues outstanding from the Sixth Review Meeting and those raised at the Seventh Review Meeting, which took place in July 2022.

Organization: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
Atlas of Canada - Relief Map of Canada MCR0101E

The Atlas of Canada's Relief Map shows Canada's relief with a colour ramp of elevation ranges. Colour tints of depth ranges show ocean bathymetry.  
  
  This map shows the relief of Canada using three different resolutions. Starting with low resolution, as you zoom in, it transitions to medium and then high resolution. The low resolution is derived from the merging of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) High Resolution Digital Elevation Model (HRDEM) from 2021 and the legacy Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDEM), 1945-2011, resampled to 804 metres. The medium resolution is the NRCan, Medium Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM) from 2024, with modifications by the Atlas of Canada for cartographic purposes.  The high resolution is NRCan's 2021 HRDEM product with 1 metre pixels.   
  
  Also included, is a bathymetric layer from GEBCO 2021 (https://download.gebco.net/) resampled to 804 metre pixels.    
  
  Other sources: Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) 2021; Government of Iceland; United States. National Geodetic Survey’s Integrated Database, 2021 (https://geodesy.noaa.gov/)  
  
  All layers have been symbolized to match the Atlas of Canada Relief wall map.  
  
  Copies of this map may be obtained from authorized map dealers in Canada, USA and abroad. For further information on purchasing the paper map MCR 0101 or downloading the digital version free of charge, go to atlas.gc.ca.   
  
  Produced by the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada. Printed in 2025.  
  
  ISBN 978-0-660-37948-7  
  
  Catalogue No. m57-1/46-2021e  
  
  Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/pe5mnk08hr  
  
  Further information on all these maps can be found on the Atlas of Canada web site atlas.gc.ca.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Plant Health and Contaminants, Oil Sands Region

Plant health assessments and vegetation surveys are undertaken at both terrestrial and wetland sites in the oil sands region and in reference areas. Plant monitoring is being conducted for biodiversity and contaminants, and because plants are important both as wildlife habitat and as traditional-use species. Plant and soil samples are collected at monitoring sites near and at varying distances from oil sands operations. Plant tissues are being examined for levels of naphthenic acids (NAs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals. Plant indicator species include Vaccinium spp. (blueberry), Ledum groenlandicum (Labrador tea), Arctostaphyllos uva-ursi (common bearberry), and Cornus canadensis (bunchberry). Soil samples from riparian banks and boreal forest locations are also collected for greenhouse studies. These experiments evaluate the uptake, distribution, and toxicity of the contaminants in plant tissue.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Decadal climate predictions for the Volcanic Response Readiness Exercise (VolRes-RE)

The Volcanic Response activities under the World Climate Research Programme's (WCRP's) Atmospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate (APARC) and the Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) organized a community exercise to respond to a hypothetical large eruption occurring in April 2022. As part of this Volcanic Response Readiness Exercise (VolRes-RE), the Easy Volcanic Aerosol forcing generator was used to provide stratospheric sulfate aerosol optical properties customized to the configurations of individual decadal prediction models. Participating centers reran forecasts for 2022–26 from their original initialization dates (beginning of November 2021 or January 2022) and, in most cases, also from just before the eruption at the beginning of April 2022, according to two candidate response protocols. The forecast data requested for VolRes-RE are monthly averages of six two-dimensional variables including (priority 1) near-surface air temperature (tas), precipitation rate (pr), and sea level pressure (psl), and (priority 2) surface temperature (ts), sea ice concentration (siconc), and Atlantic meridional overturning streamfunction (msftmz). This product contains raw ensemble decadal forecasts of these variables produced without volcanic forcing (f1) and with volcanic forcing (f2) for the two initialization dates by each of the 9 participating models. Data are available on the native grids. Forecast ranges vary from at least 5 years to up to 10 years for some models. Details of the VolRes-RE experiment, technical aspects of the participating decadal prediction systems, and the outcome of this exercise are available at https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0111.1.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Regulatory Oversight Report for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Sites: 2022

The Regulatory Oversight Report for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Sites: 2022
describes the safety performance of the sites that are licensed to Canadian Nuclear
Laboratories (CNL) by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). It also
provides details on CNSC staff’s work to ensure the safety and protection of the people
and the environment around the sites. CNSC staff evaluated CNL’s performance across the CNSC’s standard set of 14 safety and control areas (SCAs). This report provides the resulting performance ratings for the 2022 calendar year.

Organization: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission | Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
Total Oxidizable Precursors (TOP) of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Canadian Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems

This data set contains concentrations of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) following conversion of oxidizable PFAS into terminal perfluorinated carboxylic acids (PFCAs) in wastewater Influent (INF), Effluent (EFF), Landfill Leachate (LCH), Biosolids (BIOS) and Sludge (SLG) sampled from various Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) and Landfills across Canada.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada