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Global Forest Watch Canada (GFWC)

2003

This file was last updated: 11/03
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Metadata information:

1) Data name: 
	indian_reserves

2) Short description:	
	This data set represents the Indian Reserves within Canada. It provides Indian Reserves with detail appropriate for national, regional, and provincial levels.

3) Data type and format: 
	Vector digital data, Arc View (*.shp)

4) Creation Date: 
	November 2003

5) Source of information-data origin:
	National Atlas Information Service (NAIS) 1:2 million digital maps created by Natural Resources Canada for publishing of the National Atlas of Canada. The data set was published by Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) on November 1/2000.
	NRCAN – Legal Surveys Division: Canada Lands Index Map data sets (http://www.lsd.nrcan.gc.ca/english/canada_lands_index_e.asp) and Atlas of Canada (http://atlas.gc.ca/site/index.html)
			
6) Projection Information:
	Projection: Lambert Conformal Conic
	Units: meters 
	Spheroid: Clarke 1866
	Central Meridian: -95 degrees
	Reference Latitude: 49 degrees
	Standard Parallel 1: 77 degrees
	Standard Parallel 2: 49 degrees
	False Easting: 0 m
	False Northing: 0 m
	
7) Publisher:
	Global Forest Watch Canada
	10337 146 Street 
	Edmonton, Alberta
	T5N 3A3

8) Contact name:	
	Zoran Stanojevic
	GIS / Remote Sensing Analyst
	Phone: (780) 422-5989
	e-mail: zorans@fanweb.ca