Talk:Census metropolitan area

Unstandard Names

Many of the names used in this article are not the names used by Statistics Canada. It is therefore misleading. The Calgary Regional Partnership? Sounds like a civic group, not a metropolitan area.

Those are informal names for the metro areas, or organizations that cover the metro areas. -- Earl Andrew - talk 15:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

There is a lot of disagreement about the names and borders of some of these areas. In the case of Calgary, the Calgary Regional Partnership is probably the best. It is not a civic group. Like Earl Andrew points out, it is and organization that covers the CMA. It is the corporate entity that represents Greater Calgary. This is no different than the GTA or Edmonton's ECR. The Calgary Economic Region is more like a civic group, but it is another possibility. Some people use health regions to define these borders... in which case the Calgary Health Region may be most appropriate. Some people consider Alberta census division #6 to represent Greater Calgary. Anyway, my point is that you have to pick one of these, and it so happens that the CRP is the same type of organization as the others on this list. --Tyson2k 01:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Unlabeled Comment

One time, the article Greater Sault Ste. Marie was put on VfD due to the fact it was described as a CMA in conjunction with the fact the population of the other cities near it does not add up to 100,000 or more. Despite that, I still consider Sault Ste. Marie to be a metroplex, I mean you got Echo Bay, Ontario as a suburb. Are all Canadian metropolises CMAs, or just those that exceed 100,000 in population? --SuperDude 04:37, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Metropilitan areas under 100,000 people are Census Agglomerations, not CMA's. Let's get articles on the CMA's before we move onto the CA's. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:18, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Additionally, it would have to be 100,000+ within Ontario alone; population figures of American cities are never factored into Canadian "metropolitan area" definitions. Bearcat 00:30, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

It's not about what you consider Sault Ste. Marie to be, SuperDude. There is a specific definition for what constitutes a metropolitan area, and SSM does not meet it. Bearcat 00:51, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Capitalisation

Not that it matters much, but Statistics Canada does not capitalise it within text (as opposed to titles where their style is to capitalise major words), so the move is OK by me. Luigizanasi 04:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Greater Toronto Area vs Toronto CMA;

From the article:

"All CMAs are subdivided into census tracts. A CMA may be consolidated with adjacent Census Agglomerations if they are socially and economically integrated. This new grouping is known as a consolidated CMA, and the component CMA and CAs are known as the primary census metropolitan area (PCMA) and primary census agglomeration(s) (PCA). A CMA may not be consolidated with another CMA."

"A CMA may not be considated with another CMA according to what?" What is the Oshawa CMA and part of the Hamilton CMA doing in the Greater Toronto Area (Ontario government administration area)? A qualifier is needed, such as, whatever Statistics Canada has to say about it, with a citation.

Too bad that there is no link for the Toronto CMA but it most certainly is not the Greater Toronto Area. And what documentation from Statistics Canada states anything about census tracts other than around census agglomerations that end up with 50,000 or more people in them? Show everyone the census tracts (and explain them, or provide citation that explains them) inside CMAs or even CAs with 50,000+ in "agglomerated" population. Note also that the Labrador "City" CA didn't have the requisite 10,000 between the CSDs making up the CA of Labrador "City", both of type T = Town, Labrador City (Town), Wabush (Town). CMAs, for no apparent reason, don't lose their "status" as such when, not if they do lose the requisite 100,000 in whatever alleged relationships, which is going to happen to the Thunder Bay and Greater Sudbury CMAs fairly soon if they keep losing the population they have been over the last couple of censuses, but not CAs.

Statistics Canada states nothing about CAs not losing their "status" when they lose the required 10,000 in alleged economic and cultural integration and Labrador Town, Wabush Town, don't have 10,000 in total population, period. Another StatsCon job.

The GTA is made up of Census Divisions (counties of whatever name, according to provincial legislation and unorganized nothings, type UNO): Toronto Division (nothing it in but the Toronto CSD), Peel, York, Durham and Halton Regional Municipalities make up the GTA. Everything federal, as usual, makes absolutely no sense around Toronto and its Toronto CMA thing is completely ignored, other than when there are no other stats to use around whatever, due to the Ontario feds not doing their jobs around Toronto as usual.

Greater Toronto Area vs. Toronto [census] metropolitan area, 2001

After each census subdivision (CSD) / municipality name the census division (CD) name is abbreviated as follows:

TD = Toronto Division
PR = Peel Regional Municipality
YR = York Regional Municipality
DR = Durham Regional Municipality
HR = Halton Regional Municipality
SC = Simcoe County
DC = Dufferin County

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                                                 Population
Name                               Type   2001      1996     Change
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Toronto (TD)                         C 2,481,494 2,385,421 A 96,073
Mississauga (PR)                     C   612,925   544,382   68,543
Brampton (PR)                        C   325,428   268,251   57,177
Markham (YR)                         T   208,615   173,383   35,232
Vaughan (YR)                         C   182,022   132,549   49,473
Burlington (HR) * .................. C   150,836   136,976   13,860
Oakville (HR)                        T   144,738   128,405   16,333
Oshawa (DR) * ...................... C   139,051   134,364    4,687
Richmond Hill (YR)                   T   132,030   101,725   30,305
Barrie-unofficial or otherwise (SC)  C   103,710    79,191   24,519
Whitby (DR) * ...................... T    87,413    73,794   13,619
Pickering (DR)                       C    87,139    78,989    8,150
Ajax (DR)                            T    73,753    64,430    9,323
Clarington (DR) * .................. T    69,834    60,615    9,219
Newmarket (YR)                       T    65,788    57,125    8,663
Caledon (PR)                         T    50,595    39,893   10,702
Halton Hills (HR)                    T    48,184    42,390    5,794
Aurora (YR)                          T    40,167    34,857    5,310
Georgina (YR)                        T    39,263    34,777    4,486
Milton (HR)                          T    31,471    32,104     -633
Whitchurch-Stouffville (YR)          T    22,008    19,835    2,173
[New Tecumseth] (SC) **              T    26,141    22,904    3,237
[Orangeville] (DC) **                T    25,248    21,498    3,750
[Bradford West Gwillimbury] (SC) **  T    22,228    20,213    2,015
[Whitchurch-Stouffville] (YR) **     T    22,008    19,835    2,173
East Gwillimbury (YR)                T    20,555    19,770      785
Scugog (DR) * ...................... TP   20,173     7,244    1,336
King (YR)                            TP   18,533    18,223      310
Uxbridge (DR)                        TP   17,377    15,882    1,495
Brock (DR) * ....................... TP   12,110    11,705      405
[Mono] (DC) **                       T     6,922     6,552      370
Chippewas of Georgina Island
 First Nation (YR)                   R       273       201       72
[Mississaugas of
 Scugog Isand] (DR) * .............. R        51         ¶        ¶
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¶ Incompletely enumerated Indian reserve or Indian settlement. For further information, see the “Special Notes”.

* ... Municipalities/CSDs with one asterisk and a line of periods are in the version of the Toronto city-region the Ontario feds created but are not in the confederate "[census] metropolitan area" ([C]MA) version.

[]** Municipalities in brackets followed by two asterisks are not in the "Greater Toronto Area" the Ontario feds created but are in the confederate version of the Toronto city-region ([C]MA).

Derived from: Statistics Canada - Population, Dwellings and Geography (Index), Census Subdivisions (CSDs) - Municipalities then by CMA and CD (Toronto Division, Peel, York, Durham and Halton Regional Municipalities) to get both alleged “official Toronto city-regions”.

Date modified (by source): 2002-07-16
Last updated/checked: 2005-02-18
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Census Subdivisions (Municipalities) not included in the Toronto CMA but included in the GTA

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                                                 Population
Name                               Type   2001      1996     Change
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Burlington (HR) .................... C   150,836   136,976   13,860
Oshawa (DR) ........................ C   139,051   134,364    4,687
Barrie-unofficial or otherwise (SC)  C   103,710    79,191   24,519
Whitby (DR) ........................ T    87,413    73,794   13,619
Clarington (DR) .................... T    69,834    60,615    9,219
Scugog (DR) ........................ TP   20,173     7,244    1,336
Brock (DR) ......................... TP   12,110    11,705      405
Mississaugas of
 Scugog Isand] (DR) ................ R        51         ¶        ¶
___________________________________________________________________
TOTAL                                    583,178   503,889   79,289
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Barrie has a 400-series highway (the 400) running right to/from it at the 401 through Toronto, the 401 at the 400 is jammed pretty much all the time and it gets even worse on the weekends in the summers, because we don't know any "city folk" who have or ever will just hang around in Toronto all the time. If you can't get out of the province or country on a weekend, at least get up north to a cottage, campground, little provincial park, and usually via the 400, which runs right to Barrie, which, due to the amount of commuting involved on weekdays,should either be its own CMA given that it had over the 100,000 requisite population in 2001 and cannot possibly not be socially and economically integrated with itself (but it's still a CA because Abbotsford, BC became a CMA in the 2001 Census and so did Kingston, ON and how "fair" would it be to obey LAWS and regulations by adding two CMAs to south Ontario and only 1 to the Lower Mainland?), or become part of the Toronto CMA. But it's going to be part of the Toronto CMA anyway, so there's really no point in turning it into its own CMA then just adding it to the Toronto CMA.

Census Subdivisions (Municipalities) added to the Toronto MA (in exchange for the above) but not included in the GTA

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                                                 Population
Name                               Type   2001      1996     Change
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New Tecumseth (SC) ................. T    26,141    22,904 A  3,237
Orangeville (DC) ................... T    25,248    21,498    3,750
Bradford West Gwillimbury (SC) ..... T    22,228    20,213    2,015
Mono (DC) .......................... T     6,922     6,552      370
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TOTAL                                     80,539    71,167    9,372
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Not Barrie, when if anything at all in Simcoe County is going to be part of the Toronto CMA, it's Barrie, not puny little New Tecumseth or or Bradford West Gwillumbury, or little Orangeville or whatever a Mono is from Dufferin County.

Burlington is allegedly part of the Hamilton CMA but is part of the GTA because we don't pay any attention to the confederates here, other than around the money they're constantly stealing from us to hand out to everyone else. Oshawa is a CMA but is part of the Greater Toronto Area, so either get a proper Toronto CMA article set up or drop the double brackets around it -- because no one can possibly refer to the GTA as any confederate CMA.

It is an outright lie, let alone misleading, and lies do not belong in any encyclopedia.

Oops. I forgot to propose a solution. Why not just get rid of the "Common/Corporate Name" column given that every CMA is called exactly what it's called by Statistics Canada according to this. And then get the links for every CMA from Census, "Show me data on the community I live in" and select the CMA links after entering Toronto, Montreal, etc., a bunch of CMA stats for each CMA? --S-Ranger 01:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

List of CMAs

Rank	Statistics Canada Name	Province	Largest Municipalities
1	Toronto CMA	Ontario	Toronto, Mississauga
2	Montreal CMA	Québec	Montreal, Laval
3	Vancouver CMA	British Columbia	Vancouver, Surrey
4	Ottawa-Hull CMA	Ontario, Québec	Ottawa, Gatineau
5	Calgary CMA	Alberta	Calgary, Airdrie
6	Edmonton CMA	Alberta	Edmonton, St. Albert
7	Quebec (City) CMA	Québec	Quebec, Lévis
8	Winnipeg CMA	Manitoba	Winnipeg, Selkirk
9	Hamilton CMA	Ontario	Hamilton, Burlington
10	London CMA	Ontario	London, St. Thomas
11	Kitchener CMA	Ontario	Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo
12	St. Catharines-Niagara CMA	Ontario	St. Catharines, Niagara Falls
13	Halifax CMA	Nova Scotia	Halifax Regional Municipality
14	Victoria CMA	British Columbia	Victoria, Saanich
15	Windsor CMA	Ontario	Windsor
16	Oshawa CMA	Ontario	Oshawa, Whitby
17	Saskatoon CMA	Saskatchewan	Saskatoon
18	Regina CMA	Saskatchewan	Regina
19	St. John's CMA	Newfoundland	St. John's, Mount Pearl
20	Greater Sudbury CMA	Ontario	Greater Sudbury
21	Chicoutimi-Jonquière CMA	Québec	Chicoutimi
22	Sherbrooke CMA	Québec	Sherbrooke
26	Abbotsford CMA	British Columbia	Abbotsford, Mission
26	Kingston CMA	Ontario	Kingston, South Frontenac
27	Trois-Rivières CMA	Québec	Trois-Rivières
28	Saint John CMA	New Brunswick	Saint John, Rothesay
29	Thunder Bay CMA	Ontario	Thunder Bay

• All CMA external sources, Statistics Canada, 2001 Census by CMA name, All Data
  
• National ranking via Statistics Canada, Population Counts, Land Area, Population Density and Population Rank, for Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2001 Census

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The thing is that most editors publishing stats on Wikipedia Canada for CMAs, CDs, CAs, CSDs, don't even know that these data exist (and often don't know what CMA, CD, CA, CSD even mean); or they are making very broad (completely worthless) interpretations, from nothing that any interpretation is needed for.

The same tables/templates (with different data) can be brought up for any CD ("county" by whatever name), CSD (municipality by whatever or no type) or CA (bizarre "town-regions" out in the middle of Nowhere in many cases, but not in south Ontario).

I managed to locate the missing CSDs and also corrected the ranking and removed whatever Saguenay, Quebec is, because it's not a CMA or a CA. The ranking may not "make sense" to the oblivious but with the source for it, it's a no-brainer to look at the national population ranks and plenty are doubled up (certainly around CSDs) and there are CAs with higher populations than CMAs. Just click on the source and you'll see for yourself. --S-Ranger 06:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)