Area units:
1901 provincial, territorial and district boundaries, as well as treaty boundaries area shown.

Data units:
Native reserves established before the 20th century are shown with their geographic extent, unless they are relatively small (generally less than 2000 ha), where they are shown with point symbols. They are coloured according to the history of their ownership and severance.

Reserves shown as points
All reserves across Canada appear as bright pink points at small scales (where most of Canada is visible on the screen). As you zoom in (larger scales), the bright pink points are replaced with different coloured points for small reserves, and with the actual shape of the reserve, for larger reserves.

Larger scales
Small reserves (generally less than 2000 hectares in size) are represented by points, the colour indicating their status in 1900. Some reserves proposed by 1900 were not created till the 20th century, and some were never created.

Reserves shown as areas
Reserve areas showing: reserve area lost, reserve area retained and reserve area gained since the original boundaries were determined. Only reserves established before the 20th century are shown. Territorial changes to these reserves during the 19th and 20th centuries are indicated.

Treaty labels (detail), and Treaty boundaries (detail) are only visible at large (zoomed in) scales. To see these layers, click in their checkboxs, then zoom in until the symbol turns into a checkmark in the checkbox (seen at left).

Treaty boundaries appear in all provinces east of British Columbia, agency boundaries in British Columbia.

Note that the boundaries for Treaty No.8 (1899) are shown, but the reserves within this treaty area are not included on this map.

This layer shows all of the reserves across Canada coloured according to the Linguistic family to which the dominant population of that reserve belongs. In some cases, native people of different linguistic families live on a single reserve, however, the dominant linguistic family determines the colour chosen to represent that reserve. Where there is more than one ethno-linguistic group within one reserve, the groups are each listed in the Ethno-linguistic group field of the reserves table. Use the identify (data) tool to pop-up this information for any reserve on the map.

The default basemap is the Canada Base Reserves layer. It is simply an olive green background colour for all of Canada.

The Ecozones layer shows the ecozones across Canada.

One of these layers is always on, so turning one on, turns the other off.

Table: Click on this tool, then click or drag on the map to select reserves, and popup a detailed table data for those selected reserves. See Table Fields below for description of fields in this table.

Extra detailed maps of selected reserves, when Zoomed in.

There is a selected group of reserves across the country which will appear in even more detail as you zoom in. The illustration to the left illustrates what you will see if the reserve you zoom in on has this extra detail. There will be a black outline around the area of detail, and inside the outline, the reserve boundaries and lake shorelines will be significantly more detailed. In the example in this illustration, not only do you see more detail within the reserve shapes, but you will also see other reserve areas that are too small to see at smaller scales (note the island in the detail map which does not appear in the less detailed map above).