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About Quadranac

Quadranac is a free statistical almanac of North America. It covers the United States, Canada and Mexico, with every state, province, territory and estado in plain tables you can sort and download.

What the site is for

For more than a century the U.S. Statistical Abstract and the Canada Year Book put a country's key numbers into one reference volume. The Statistical Abstract ended in 2012 and the Canada Year Book in 2013. Quadranac follows the same idea, extended across the continent:

• Official sources only. Every figure comes from a national statistical agency or government program, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, BEA, BLS and CDC, Statistics Canada, or Mexico's INEGI. Each table names and links its source and licence.
• No invented numbers. Values appear as published. When we calculate something, such as a per-capita figure or a percentage change, the column is labelled derived and the method is given.
• Side by side. Tables use comparable state- and province-level layouts. The National Comparison sets the three countries next to each other and notes where definitions, currencies and reference years differ.
• Free and open. Every table can be downloaded as CSV.

The name: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

The name Quadranac combines the almanac with Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1743–1794), a naval officer, explorer and diplomat whose career took in all three of today's North American countries. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography:

• He was baptized in Lima, Peru, on 3 June 1743 and entered the Spanish marine guard at 19. In 1774 he was assigned to the naval department of San Blas, in today's Nayarit, Mexico, which ran Spain's posts on the Pacific coast to the north.
• In 1775 he captained the schooner Sonora in Bruno de Hezeta's expedition. When the companion ship turned back, he kept sailing north, reaching 58°30′N and naming Bucareli Sound in present-day Alaska. In 1779 he returned to Alaskan waters in the frigate Favorita as second in command of Ignacio de Arteaga's expedition.
• He was twice commandant of San Blas. In 1792 he took command of the Spanish base at Nootka Sound, on what is now Vancouver Island, British Columbia. His biographer notes that his even-handed command earned the respect of British and American fur traders and of the Nootka people. The chief Muquinna was often a guest at his residence.
• During that summer he oversaw a more extensive exploration of Juan de Fuca Strait and the fjords of today's British Columbia and Alaska. The DCB says this produced the most complete maps of the coastline made up to that time, and that George Vancouver's use of them is reflected in the many Spanish place names along the coast.
• At Nootka he negotiated with Vancouver over the terms of the 1790 Nootka Convention. He spent the winter of 1792–93 in Monterey, California, returned to San Blas in 1793, and died in Mexico City on 26 March 1794.

A sailor born in South America, based in Mexico, mapping coasts now in Canada and the United States: his career is a fitting namesake for an almanac that tries to chart the whole continent from reliable records.

Sources

• Warren L. Cook, “Bodega y Quadra (Cuadra), Juan Francisco de la,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1979–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bodega_y_quadra_juan_francisco_de_la_4E.html
• Statistical sources are cited on each table page.

Quadranac is an independent site, not affiliated with any of the agencies whose data it reproduces.