Guides: Maps and Geospatial Data: Montreal

Cadastral data

A cadastre refers to a set of records showing the real estate or real property's extent, value and ownership of land. A modern cadastre typically consists of a series of large-scale maps or plans, and corresponding registers.

Current cadastral data is available through Géoindex
Plan du cadastre du Québec: Montréal(2015)
Plans cadastral de Montréal 1:1000 (1999)

Cartographic plans

The Montreal Cartographic Plans are detailed large scale mapping (1:1 000) of the City of Montreal. Each file covers 0.7 square kilometers. Layers include: building outlines, spot heights, street names, roads, railways, and administrative boundaries.

Montreal Cadastral Plans - detailed large scale maps (1:1 000) delinating the property boundaries of the City of Montreal. The geographic area covered includes the former limits of the city (pre-2001). Each file covers 0.7 square kilometers.

Montreal (CMM) Administrative Boundaries (2006) - polygon file of the boundaries of the various arrondissements and municipalities in and around Montreal, as well as the surrounding counties. The most recent boundaries are available from the Montreal Open Data Portal.

Laval Administrative Sectors (secteurs d'aménagement) - available from Données Québec, these boundary files offer the administrative sectors of the city/island of Laval.

Census boundaries

Statistics Canada Boundary Files
Boundary files for census years 2001-2016, using the Lambert conformal conic projection.
1971 census metropolitan area (CMA) enumeration areas (EA)
Digitized boundaries of the enumeration areas for the 33 census metropolitan areas, from 1971.

Transportation

STM Data
STM Transit Data is a geospatial database of transit data from the Société de Transport de Montréal from 2007. It contains GIS files of: bus routes, bus stops, metro lines, metro stations, commuter rail stops, commuter rail stations, night bus routes, reserved bus lanes, service areas, and STM garages.
Montreal Bicycle Paths
Geospatial data that contains information on type of bicycle path (ie. designated bike lane, shared road with automobiles etc.) and the bicycle network (Route Verte, Transcanada Trail etc.).

Land Use

Occupation du sol (Montreal Urban Community Landuse File) - Occupation du sol is a geospatial file produced by the Communuaté Urbaine de Montréal depicting different general landuse types.

The Montreal Land Use Map (1949) is a colour map series, 70 plates in total, that represents the land use of Montreal in 1949. This set of maps were produced by the City of Montreal, City Planning Department in 1949. The land use categories are: residential, commercial, light industry, heavy industry, railway lands, parks and playgrounds, and public buildings. The originals are housed at the City of Montreal Archives, and were scanned in 2000.