Quebec land and environment profile
Explore official Quebec and Canadian datasets for zoning, elevation, soils, groundwater, contaminated sites, building exposure, Nunavik permafrost and federal environmental projects.
This page groups official public-data sources useful for understanding the context around land in Quebec. Nearby records are context, not a diagnosis of a specific property.
Agricultural zone and CPTAQ
The agricultural zone plus registered inclusion and exclusion decisions.
Public-land leases and land rights
Leases on Quebec public land for different uses.
Watersheds
Multi-scale hydrographic basins and drainage areas.
Elevation, slope and LiDAR
NRCan HRDEM terrain/surface models through official services without mirroring massive rasters.
Soils and plant hardiness
Soil landscapes, texture, drainage and plant hardiness zones.
Geotechnical investigations
MTMD investigations, boreholes and stratigraphic information.
Groundwater
RSESQ monitoring, SIH wells and PACES regional resources.
Building exposure and land hazards
Canada Structures adds Quebec building footprints as an exposure layer to combine with hazards. The large GeoPackage remains hosted by Public Safety Canada.
Nunavik permafrost
TTOP mapping of continuous, discontinuous and sporadic permafrost plus isolated patches north of the 55th parallel. Regional context only; construction requires site-specific geotechnical investigation.
Radon
Regional context; a building must be tested directly to know its level.
Earthquakes
Official historical archive filtered to Quebec and recent activity.
Biodiversity
Invasive and at-risk species, filtered GBIF observations and regulated plant-pest areas.
Contaminated sites
Quebec MELCCFP records and the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, kept separate by jurisdiction.
Federal projects and authorizations
Use the Fisheries Act Registry complement and federal Common Project Search to locate published authorizations or projects in an area.
See flood zones and satellite-observed flood extents →