Canada

State · 1932–2026 CE · at its largest around 1973 CE

Fully self-governing from 1931, Canada grew into a prosperous, bilingual and famously multicultural democracy, with a public health care system it treats as a national symbol. Its history is also marked by residential schools for Indigenous children and by Quebec's struggle over its identity.

On its lands while it lasted

Henry Ford (1863 CE – 1947 CE): American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in 1903 and used the moving assembly line to mass-produce the affordable Model T.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 CE – 1959 CE): American architect of the Prairie School and organic architecture, designer of Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum.
Rivera, Detroit Industry murals (1933 CE): Diego Rivera covered the walls of a court in the Detroit Institute of Arts with Ford’s River Rouge plant, workers and machines locked together. They are the finest of his murals outside Mexico.
Mount Rushmore (1941 CE): Colossal sculpture of four US presidents carved into a granite mountain in the Black Hills, on land sacred to the Lakota.
Bretton Woods Conference (1944 CE): In July 1944 delegates of 44 Allied nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to plan the postwar monetary order. They created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and a system of fixed exchange rates.
Bill Gates (born 1955 CE): American businessman who co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975; its MS-DOS and Windows came to dominate personal computers. Since 2000 he has focused on philanthropy through the Gates Foundation.
Creation of Nunavut (1999 CE): Nunavut was separated from the Northwest Territories as a territory with an Inuit majority, the result of a land claims agreement.