How to create a map based on census variables?

Step 1: Get the census boundary GIS files 

• Choosing a census geography (Carleton University)
• 2011 census boundary data from Scholars Geoportal or Statistics Canada (Queens University)
• Downloading census boundary files using Scholars Geoportal (University of Toronto)

Step 2: Get the census data

• Downloading Canadian Census Analyzer data (Carleton University)

Step 3: Join census data to boundary GIS files

• Joining census data to boundary shapefiles in ArcMap (Carleton University)
• Mapping 2011 Canadian census data, using Canadian Census Analyzer and ArcMap 10 (York University)
• Mapping 2011 Canadian census data, using Canadian Census Analyzer and QGIS (York University)