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Canada Forward Sortation Areas (FSAs) Postal Code GIS Shapefiles


These ArcGIS shapefiles work with the free ArcExplorer GIS viewer, ArcView GIS, ArcGIS, Maptitude, Mapinfo, Manifold, TatukGIS and many other commercial GIS and mapping programs and many free GIS programs as well and they're much less costly than most others. Use our free Learn2Map GIS Tutorial and Atlas to add streets, highways, census information and much more to your maps for free. We have included free national level base maps with each map archive listed below. Also, check our free GIS software and free GIS ArcGIS shapefiles pages for more information and free ArcGIS shapefiles. If you are new to GIS, check out our free Learn2Map GIS Tutorial and Atlas. Details...

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Shapefile Description

These shapefiles are derived from the Canadian Forward Sortation Areas (FSAs) Data. FSAs in Canada are similar to zip codes in the U.S. There are over 1,600 FSAs in all of Canada's provinces and territories.

The population and dwelling counts for a forward sortation area (FSA) are based on the first three characters of the postal codes captured from the first page of the Census questionnaire. The same postal code was assigned to all members of a given household to allow for the calculation of population counts.

You can learn more about FSAs at Canada's official website.

You can also download a more detailed PDF document about the Candian FSA postal codes.

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Shapefiles on this page: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland Labrador, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Group 1 (Yukon Territory - Northwest Territories - Nunavut), Group 2 (Prince Edward Island - Nova Scotia) All

Click next to the shapefile you wish and you will have immediate access to it using our secure merchant account provider, ClickBank/Keynetics or PayPal, whichever you prefer. Note that a few of the smaller shapefiles are grouped into single sets.

If you with to purchase more than one FSA shapefile, consider purchasing the Western Canada and/or Eastern Canada shapefile sets at a considerable discount.

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The image on this page is an example of how these shapefiles may look when loaded into a GIS program. Your GIS maps may not look exactly like this. Each GIS program is different. Shapefiles themselves are a collection of points, lines or polygons. They have no attributes. It is up to you, the user, to define colors, line width, symbols and other attributes within the limits and capabilities of the GIS programs you are using.

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