The expanded geo coverage is:

• 30 Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs)
• one Census Agglomeration (CA)
• one special aggregate - sum of CMAs
• four province/territories

Figures are thousands of Canadian dollars (Ths. CAD) not seasonally adjusted (NSA). The series start at January 1972.

The series reside in the historical catalog (Canada » Real Estate » Residential » Stage of Construction » Permits) and include, for example:

• HSLPMTRESUM.ICAN_YT      = Total dwellings, (Ths. CAD, NSA) - for Yukon territory
• HSLPMTRES1FMUM.ICAN_MBAR = Single dwellings incl. mobile homes - for Barrie, Ontario

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.