Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is an open dataset from Library and Archives Canada with 6 files (CSV, RDF, XML); catalogue record updated 2026-04-09. On CanQuery you can open 2 CSV or Excel files as tables, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology which represents all the fields treated in information resources of the Government of Canada. It contains 5,004 terms in English and 5,068 in French, including 2,307 preferred terms in English and 2,307 in French. All fields of knowledge are represented in the thesaurus, to varying degrees. Because of the great variety of subjects covered by the thesaurus, its terminology is rather general. By design, it does not include specialized terminology used in specific and limited disciplines.

Publisher

Library and Archives Canada

Resources

6

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-04-09