Random thoughts of an Irish Software Architect in the GIS Industry.
Canada now giving away GeoSpatial data for free
Canadian Spatial data is now available online for download for free.
Its a bit disorganised in the various formats e.g. dxf & e00 files for Vector data), personally I would have preferred to have Oracle Spatial dump files available for download, but each to their own I guess.
The data by area and data types, but there’s so much data in there that it may take a while to find what you actually want or are interested in. Then the data format may be difficult for you to use without some conversion software. Organising by data format might have been a good idea also.
Download here: http://www.geogratis.gc.ca