University of Guelph Library
Provider
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
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Canada Soils Data
- National Soils Database
Projection & Datum: Geographic (Decimal Degrees); NAD 1927. - Soil Survey Publications
Map and report in PDF for online viewing or download.
Ontario Soil Surveys
Provider
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food
Metadata & Projection
- See the readme text document contained in the .zip file for more detailed attribute information.
- Datum : UTM Zone; NAD 1983
Data Files
Access
Data Resource Centre Geospatial Metadata Explorer
Note: to download geospatial data from off-campus users will first need to install CISCO IPSec VPN Access software available (a free download) from the University of Guelph CCS software distribution Web site.
Note: The following files are in .zip format
- Brant (.zip file – 6.4mb)
- Bruce (.zip – 3mb)
- Dufferin (.zip – 3.6mb)
- Durham (.zip – 4.7mb)
- Elgin (.zip – 3.4mb)
- Essex (.zip – 390kb)
- Frontenac Manag. Bd. (.zip – 7.87mb)
- Grey (.zip – 5.2mb)
- Haldimand (.zip – 23.9mb)
- Halton (.zip – 2mb)
- Hamilton (.zip – 2.4mb)
- Hastings (.zip – 5mb)
- Huron (.zip – 3.4mb)
- Kawartha Lakes (.zip – 4.1mb)
- Kent County (.zip – 2.5mb)
- Lambton (.zip – 2.5mb)
- Leeds & Grenville (.zip – 6.4mb)
- Lennox & Addington (.zip – 2.8mb)
- Manitoulin (.zip – 5.3mb)
- Middlesex (.zip – 8.1mb)
- Niagara (.zip – 7.1mb)
- Northumberland (.zip – 2.8mb)
- Oxford County (.zip – 5.2mb)
- Peel (.zip – 3.9mb)
- Perth (.zip – 5.7mb)
- Peterborough (.zip – 4.7mb)
- Prescott & Russell (.zip – 3.2mb)
- Prince Edward (.zip – 1.1mb)
- Renfrew (.zip – 4.2mb)
- Simcoe (.zip – 9mb)
- Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry (.zip – 6.1mb)
- Waterloo (.zip – 9mb)
- Wellington (.zip – 2.4mb)
- York (.zip – 4mb)
For counties not listed above contact the DRC.
Citation
Produced by [insert End-User's name here] under agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Queen's Printer for Ontario, [insert year of publication of the EIP].
Ontario Agricultural Resource Inventory - Land Use
- Physiography (.exe file – 3.2mb)
Download individual county agricultural resource inventory and physiography data from the Data Resource Centre Geospatial Data Explorer.
The basis for the land use maps is the characterization of an area as part of either an agricultural land use system (i.e. monoculture, mixed) or nonagricultural land use (i.e. idle, built-up, extraction).The aim of the ARI land use maps (1:50 000) is to identify predominate cropping patterns over time. Users of the data should be aware that the data was collected in the 1980s and recognize that the urban boundaries will have changed.
- Projection - Geographic - GCS_North_American_1983, DATUM - North_American_1983
Ontario Physiography
- Physiography deals with the major features underlying rock structures and in particular describes the local land forms composed of unconsolidated materials.
- Projection - NAD_1927_DEF_1976_UTM_Zone
- Geographic Reference System - GCS_NAD_1927_Definition_1976, DATUM - NAD27
Southern Ontario Soils Map
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, in cooperation with the Ministry of Natural Resources, are compiling a high quality, detailed, geo-spatial soils database for Southern Ontario. This new database consolidates the existing digital soil data mapped on a county basis onto a seamless and standardized product. The current digital soils data was automated from soil survey reports and maps that were produced over a period of decades.
- Go to the Data Resource Centre Geospatial Metadata Explorer and search "Ontario Soils"
- Reference system - GCS_North_American_1983
Data Access
Contact
519–824–4120 ext. 56417
Visit
The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.