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lgs_files

Local Government Statistics files (links)

Find the ministry's Local Government Statistics spreadsheet for a schedule and year: municipal tax rates and tax burden (schedules 701 to 707), municipal general and financial statistics (201 to 1101), regional district statistics (801 to 1101), and the legal name and incorporation date list. Returns the schedule, year, format, size as printed and the ministry's file address only. The figures are not reproduced: open the file. Use lgs_schedules to see what each schedule is.

Cost: 1 unit of your allowance (see Rate limits).

Parameters

  • page (municipal-tax, municipal-general, regional-district, optional)
  • schedule (string, optional)
  • year (integer, optional): min 2005, max 2035
  • query (string, optional): min length 1, max length 60
  • limit (integer, optional): min 1, max 100, default 25

REST

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/v1/tools/lgs_files \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

MCP

Call the tool lgs_files with these arguments. Over raw JSON-RPC:

curl -X POST https://api.bcmcp.ca/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BCDATA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"lgs_files","arguments":{}}}'

What comes back

Every answer is the same envelope, over REST and over MCP: available, data, citations, freshness and notes. See Citations and freshness.

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