 Elections Canada and Statistics Canada used the National Register of Electors to generate the National Geographic Database ( NGD ) , a spatial database which contains roads and related attributes such as road " name , type , direction , and address ranges " , amongst other data . It was created in 1997 , and built from 1998 to 2000 using road data from Elections Canada , street network files from Statistics Canada , the National Topographic Database from Natural Resources Canada , and data from the Digital Chart of the World . The cost to Elections Canada to contribute to the NGD was $ 3 @.@ 6 million , and linking the National Register of Electors to the National Geographic Database cost $ 500 @,@ 000 . 
