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/logistics/postal-codes-ca/

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├ ATTRIBUTION.txt

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├ README.md

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README.md— documentation

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Data Files

postal-codes-ca-sample

Field	Type	Description	Constraints	Title
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code — always CA	{ "pattern": "^CA$", "required": true }	Country Code
postal_code	string	Six-character postal code, formatted 'A1A 1A1' — primary key	{ "pattern": "^[A-Z]\\d[A-Z] \\d[A-Z]\\d$", "required": true }	Postal Code
place_name	string	Place / locality name for the postal code		Place Name
admin_name1	string	Province or territory name		Administrative Name 1
admin_code1	string	Province or territory two-letter code		Administrative Code 1
admin_name2	string	Census Division name (SGC 2021), derived by spatial join		Administrative Name 2
admin_code2	string	Four-digit Census Division UID (SGC 2021)		Administrative Code 2
admin_name3	string	Census Subdivision name (SGC 2021) — municipality, city, town, township or reserve		Administrative Name 3
admin_code3	string	Seven-digit Census Subdivision UID (SGC 2021). Its first four digits are the Census Division UID in admin_code2		Administrative Code 3
latitude	number	Latitude, decimal degrees (WGS84)		Latitude
longitude	number	Longitude, decimal degrees (WGS84)		Longitude
accuracy	string	Coordinate accuracy indicator as supplied by the source		Accuracy
alternative_city_name	string	Pipe-separated alternate place names, where known		Alternative City Name

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Total rows: ...
Format: CSV
Sources: GeoNames postal code export for Canada, CA_full (CC BY 4.0) - postal codes, place names and coordinates; Statistics Canada, 2021 Census cartographic boundary files (Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions), Open Government Licence - Canada - census geography, assigned to each postal code by spatial join. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Statistics Canada or GeoNames.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

About this dataset

Canada (CA): migration notes

Internal record of the P5 migration. This is a dated record (2026-10-05) and is not shipped in the zip.

Issue: pc-28e.7.9 (open, deferred)
Producer: none written. The descriptor keeps pipeline: producer: custom with refresh disabled, and the data stays as harvested from the live zip in 09d7c89.
Parity: not run (no producer).

Why it stays on live data

The StatCan 2021 CD/CSD boundary zips (www12.statcan.gc.ca lcd_000b21a_e.zip, lcsd000b21a_e.zip) return 403 behind a Cloudflare managed JS challenge. This was re-checked and is still 403. GeoNames CA_full fetches fine.
The geo.statcan.gc.ca ArcGIS REST service works, but it is a source switch and was not approved.
Open sources only; never PCCF (datahub-next#941).

2026-10-06: live republish absorbed (pc-28e.20)

main 36277b7 (amautadev) republished ca: a new premium zip on R2 (2026-10-05 19:46 UTC), Census Subdivision wording, and real GeoNames and StatCan sources.
Re-harvested from that zip. The new CSV differs from the old harvest in 256 rows: place_name and alternative_city_name swap, and 334 coordinates are now blanked as demonstrably wrong.
The descriptor takes the new description and the two real sources, which replace the "Multiple sources" placeholder. README is the harvested live README.

Decisions

Decision	By	Basis
Defer: stay on live data; retry www12 later	User, 2026-10-05	Boundary source blocked; source switch not approved

Open questions

Retry www12.statcan.gc.ca later, or decide on the ArcGIS REST source switch.

Provenance

Written 2026-10-05 from docs/parity/p5.md (batch sign-offs) and the bd notes on pc-28e.7.9.