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Données Québec

by Gouvernement du Québec — Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts · Data service · also known as donneesquebec.ca, Portail de données ouvertes du Québec

Québec's shared open-data portal where provincial ministries and municipalities publish datasets under a Creative Commons Attribution licence

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Overview

Données Québec is the collaborative open-data portal of the Gouvernement du Québec and participating municipalities, including Québec City, Montréal, Gatineau, Laval and Sherbrooke. Built on CKAN, it catalogues datasets from ministries and cities on topics such as territory and cadastre, property assessment rolls, transport, environment, health, education and public finance, each with resources in CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, Shapefile, XML or API form and a machine-readable catalogue API. Datasets are released under the portal's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence unless a publisher states otherwise. It is the first place to look for provincial geodata, municipal datasets and the MAMH assessment-roll extracts. The portal is a catalogue, so update frequency, documentation quality and file structure vary by publisher, and many datasets are available in French only.

Capabilities

  • Searchable catalogue of provincial and municipal datasets
  • CKAN API for programmatic catalogue and resource access
  • Downloads in CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, Shapefile, XML and more
  • Organisation pages per ministry or municipality
  • Creative Commons Attribution licensing
  • Dataset update notifications

Typical workflows

  1. Locate and download the provincial assessment-roll extracts
  2. Script periodic retrieval of a municipal dataset through the CKAN API

Strengths

  • Single entry point for Québec public data
  • Clear open licence
  • Standard CKAN API

Limitations

  • Quality and freshness vary by publisher
  • Mostly French-language metadata
  • Some large datasets are split across many files

Prerequisites

  • Web browser or HTTP client for the CKAN API

Who it is for

  • Researchers and analysts working on Québec
  • Civic developers
  • Municipal staff

Alternatives & comparison

Statistics Canada produces national statistics with its own API, whereas Données Québec aggregates datasets produced by Québec public bodies. The assessment rolls are one dataset family hosted on the portal; OpenStreetMap is a community geodata source that complements official layers.

  • OpenStreetMap

    Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts

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  • Registre foncier du Québec en ligne

    Official online access to Québec's land register: index of immovables, registered deeds and rights by lot number, run by the provincial government

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  • Rôle d'évaluation foncière (Québec)

    Québec's municipal property assessment rolls: per-unit values and building attributes published by municipalities and as open data by the MAMH

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  • Statistics Canada

    Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

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Sources & verification

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  • License
    Licence Données Québec

    https://www.donneesquebec.ca/licence

    Supports: license_spdx, pricing_model

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Official documentation
    À propos — Données Québec

    https://www.donneesquebec.ca/a-propos

    Supports: vendor, summary

    checked Nov 1, 2026
  • Official site
    Données Québec

    https://www.donneesquebec.ca/

    Supports: name, summary, capabilities

    checked Nov 1, 2026
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