State · 1867 – present
Canada
A state of 1867 – present — 159 years, still standing in the Americas and Oceania. It replaced Province of Canada. The atlas records 82 things within it — wars and battles 3 · unrest and atrocity 6 · famine and plague 2 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 4 · people 65 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 7 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 159 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 7
- the monarch of Canada
- Most ground
- 10.09 million km²
- in 1973
- Within it
- 82
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 6
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Province of Canada · replaces · 1841 – 1867
Rulers
The line of monarch of Canada - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Victoria | 1867 – 1901 | 34 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | |
| Edward VII | 1901 – 1910 | 9 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| George V | 1910 – 1936 | 26 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Edward VIII | 1936 – 1936 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| George VI | 1936 – 1952 | 16 years | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Elizabeth II | 1952 – 2022 | 70 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Charles III | 2022 – in office | in office since 2022 | still in office | child |
7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1867 – 2022. Median reign 21 years. 1 of 6 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Canada, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| John A. Macdonald | 1867 – 1873 |
| Alexander Mackenzie | 1873 – 1878 |
| John A. Macdonald | 1878 – 1891 |
| John Abbott | 1891 – 1892 |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | 1892 – 1894 |
| Mackenzie Bowell | 1894 – 1896 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | 1896 – 1911 |
| Charles Tupper | 1896 – 1896 |
| Robert Borden | 1911 – 1920 |
| Arthur Meighen | 1920 – 1921 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | 1921 – 1926 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | 1926 – 1930 |
| Arthur Meighen | 1926 – 1926 |
| Richard Bedford Bennett | 1930 – 1935 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | 1935 – 1948 |
| Louis St. Laurent | 1948 – 1957 |
| John Diefenbaker | 1957 – 1963 |
| Lester B. Pearson | 1963 – 1968 |
| Pierre Trudeau | 1968 – 1979 |
| Joe Clark | 1979 – 1980 |
| Pierre Trudeau | 1980 – 1984 |
| Brian Mulroney | 1984 – 1993 |
| John Turner | 1984 – 1984 |
| Jean Chrétien | 1993 – 2003 |
| Kim Campbell | 1993 – 1993 |
| Paul Martin | 2003 – 2006 |
| Stephen Harper | 2006 – 2015 |
| Justin Trudeau | 2015 – 2025 |
| Mark Carney | 2025 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
9.58 million km² in 1937, 9.97 million km² in 2017; at its largest 9.97 million km² in 1957. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, 1868 – 1921Flag of Canada (1868–1921) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1921Royal Coat of arms of Canada · CC BY-SA 4.0 .svg/120px-Flag_of_Canada_(1921%E2%80%931957).svg.png)
flag, 1921 – 1957Flag of Canada (1921–1957) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Canada_(1957%E2%80%931965).svg.png)
flag, 1957 – 1965Flag of Canada (1957–1965) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Canada_(1964).svg.png)
flag, 1964 – 1965Flag of Canada (1964) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Canada_(Pantone).svg.png)
flag, from 1965Flag of Canada (Pantone) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1800 – 189912 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Zipper · discovery · 1893
- Lester B. Pearson · politician · 1897 – 1972
- William Lyon Mackenzie King · politician · 1874 – 1950
- Louis St. Laurent · politician · 1882 – 1973
- Harry Crerar · politician · 1888 – 1965
- Arthur Currie · commander · 1875 – 1933
- Red River Rebellion · unrest · 1869
- North-West Rebellion · unrest · 1885
and 4 more in the atlas.
1900 – 199960 rows · 1 wars and battles
- Justin Trudeau · politician · 1971 – present
- Alice Munro · writer · 1931 – 2024
- James Cameron · explorer · 1954 – present
- Stephen Harper · politician · 1959 – present
- Margaret Atwood · inventor · 1939 – present
- Marshall McLuhan · philosopher · 1911 – 1980
- Donna Strickland · scientist · 1959 – present
- Mark Carney · politician · 1965 – present
and 52 more in the atlas.
2000 – 209910 rows · 1 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement · treaty · 2006
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada · plague · 2020
- 2020 Nova Scotia attacks · atrocity · 2020
- Freedom Convoy · unrest · 2022
- 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting · atrocity · 2026
- 2012 Quebec student protests · unrest · 2012
- Bruce Aylward · scientist · 2000 – present
- Operation Mobile · battle · 2011
and 2 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood159 years
stood longer than 56% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held10,086,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 99% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century0.6
had more wars on record per century than 91% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median26 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 77% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 35 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1851 – 2042, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1973, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q16 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.