Question
A researcher at UBC is looking for health region boundary files dating back to 1994. I searched very thoroughly I think, and could find the 2000 CD-ROM and the 2003 Health regions boundaries and correspondence with census geography, available for free on the Statistics Canada website. Are there any more - did I miss anything?
As a fallback I recommended she contact BC Stats for the BC regions. But I am curious to know whether Statistics Canada has anything earlier than 2000.
Answer
The HR 2000 product on CD-ROM was the first, at least produced by Statistics Canada. I think the advice to follow-up with the province is worthwhile, to find out about earlier files. Certainly the health regions in some provinces existed back in '94, but it would take some research to determine if the boundaries of that vintage were reflected in the HR 2000 product. There have been numerous boundary changes and complete regional restructuring across the provinces over the past 10 years.
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