Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Inheritance Trace
A lineage database of Canadian public office: 110 families and 365 officeholders, narrated end to end in 58 minutes across 26 chapters and four voices. Listed by how the seat moved — descent, marriage, sibling, wider kin. The bodies that select before anyone has done anything. An
Ten things
- Alberta oil revenue paid to move a sixteen-year-old to Italy — the endowment and the statute behind that are set out in section 12 — and the American university followed, because that is what that route feeds.
- That is the whole difference between the business track in the database and the political one, and it is why 177 of the 365 officeholders arrived by descent while the administrators mostly left no line at all.
- The cross-holding between the three is real and it is the reason the vote figures above compound, but it does not show up here — at the 5 per cent disclosure threshold the register is BlackRock and Kuwait.
- When the wartime record surfaced in 2017 while she was Minister of Foreign Affairs, she pointed to Russian efforts to destabilise Western democracies rather than addressing the contents of the record, and she has not publicly acknowledged her grandfather’s wartime role since.
- Macdonald appointed himself Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in 1878 and held it for nine years while serving as Prime Minister — the longest tenure the portfolio has ever had.
- Peter Bryce reported that a quarter of residential school pupils had died of tuberculosis, was defunded by Duncan Campbell Scott, was pushed out of the department by 1914, and had to publish his findings himself in 1922.
- 2017 The record surfaces and costs nothing section 02 Michael Chomiak’s wartime editorship is raised while his granddaughter is Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- 1 Canada ran one A residential and day school system its own National Inquiry concluded amounted to genocide, and which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called cultural genocide.
- 1985–86 The Deschênes Commission The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals examines roughly 800 to 900 suspected cases, largely Eastern European immigrants inadequately screened during postwar displaced-persons processing.
- 26 Sept 2023 The Speaker resigns Rota resigns, taking sole responsibility and stating that no other parliamentarian and no member of the Ukrainian delegation knew of his intention.
Five questions
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Alberta oil revenue paid to move a sixteen-year-old to Italy — the endowment and the statute behind that are set out in section 12 — and the _____ university followed, because that is what that route feeds.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “The cross-holding between the three is real and it is the reason the vote figures above compound, but it does not show up here — at the 5 per cent disclosure threshold the register is _____ and Kuwait.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “Macdonald appointed himself _____ General of Indian Affairs in 1878 and held it for nine years while serving as Prime Minister — the longest tenure the portfolio has ever had.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “2017 The record surfaces and costs nothing section 02 Michael _____ wartime editorship is raised while his granddaughter is Minister of Foreign Affairs.”
Which term completes this sourced statement? “1985–86 The Deschênes _____ The Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals examines roughly 800 to 900 suspected cases, largely Eastern European immigrants inadequately screened during postwar displaced-persons processing.”