9,291 events dated to the day · 366 of 366 calendar dates attested · 1836–2026

Almanac

The archive as a day-book: each calendar date, and everything recorded on it across every year — the Beaver Beacon's "years ago" column turned into an instrument. Only events whose sources date a happening to a day appear here; the 6,093 events dated to a month or year — or stated as whole-month or whole-year periods, like an annual financial report — are on the timeline. As there, the density of the 1960s–70s measures the archive's digitized holdings, not the pace of island history.

The parish registers Helen Collar transcribed carry their own dated record — mostly nineteenth-century, where this book is sparsest. They are indexed as records rather than events, and kept out of these grids for that reason: the parish register.