Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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
Map: Canada in 1973, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Canada in 1973, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 10.09 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Province of Canada: 1841 – 1867Canada: 1867 – 2026

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

Rulers

The line of monarch of Canada - the office this state names as its head of state.

Queen Victoria · 1867 – 1901 · died in office of natural causesEdward VII · 1901 – 1910 · died in office of natural causesGeorge V · 1910 – 1936 · died by suicideEdward VIII · 1936 – 1936 · left office aliveGeorge VI · 1936 – 1952 · died in office of natural causesElizabeth II · 1952 – 2022 · died in office, manner not recordedCharles III · 2022 – … · still in office190019502000
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in office
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Queen Victoria1867 – 190134 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Edward VII1901 – 19109 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathchild
George V1910 – 193626 yearsdied by suicideWikidata's manner of deathchild
Edward VIII1936 – 1936under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
George VI1936 – 195216 yearsdied in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of deathsibling
Elizabeth II1952 – 202270 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Charles III2022 – in officein office since 2022still in officechild

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. Macdonald1867 – 1873
Alexander Mackenzie1873 – 1878
John A. Macdonald1878 – 1891
John Abbott1891 – 1892
John Sparrow David Thompson1892 – 1894
Mackenzie Bowell1894 – 1896
Wilfrid Laurier1896 – 1911
Charles Tupper1896 – 1896
Robert Borden1911 – 1920
Arthur Meighen1920 – 1921
William Lyon Mackenzie King1921 – 1926
William Lyon Mackenzie King1926 – 1930
Arthur Meighen1926 – 1926
Richard Bedford Bennett1930 – 1935
William Lyon Mackenzie King1935 – 1948
Louis St. Laurent1948 – 1957
John Diefenbaker1957 – 1963
Lester B. Pearson1963 – 1968
Pierre Trudeau1968 – 1979
Joe Clark1979 – 1980
Pierre Trudeau1980 – 1984
Brian Mulroney1984 – 1993
John Turner1984 – 1984
Jean Chrétien1993 – 2003
Kim Campbell1993 – 1993
Paul Martin2003 – 2006
Stephen Harper2006 – 2015
Justin Trudeau2015 – 2025
Mark Carney2025 – …

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.

1940196019802000

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.

  • Flag of Canada (1868–1921)
    flag, 1868 – 1921Flag of Canada (1868–1921) · Public domain
  • Royal Coat of arms of Canada
    coat of arms, from 1921Royal Coat of arms of Canada · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Flag of Canada (1921–1957)
    flag, 1921 – 1957Flag of Canada (1921–1957) · Public domain
  • Flag of Canada (1957–1965)
    flag, 1957 – 1965Flag of Canada (1957–1965) · Public domain
  • Flag of Canada (1964)
    flag, 1964 – 1965Flag of Canada (1964) · Public domain
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone)
    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 – 1899: 12 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 2 risings, regime changes and massacres, 9 other18001900 – 1999: 60 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 59 other19002000 – 2099: 10 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 4 risings, regime changes and massacres, 5 other2000

1800 – 189912 rows · 1 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 4 more in the atlas.

1900 – 199960 rows · 1 wars and battles

and 52 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209910 rows · 1 wars and battles · 4 risings, regime changes and massacres

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.

American Indian Wars · Linked · 1609 – 1924American Indian WarsProvince of Canada · Linked · 1841 – 1867Province of CanadaFenian raids · Linked · 1866 – 1871Fenian raidsFrance · In the article · 481 · “As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763.”FranceLaura Secord · Coincidence · 1775 – 1868Laura SecordLouis-Joseph Papineau · Coincidence · 1786 – 1871Louis-Joseph PapineauCanada · 1867 – 2026Canada500100015002000
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

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.