Government Administrative Histories

A fully searchable database containing over 113 historical sketches of all Government departments, past and present, as well as all current agencies, boards, commissions, offices and crown corporations. Accurate and complete to 2011.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"novascotia-ca/government-administrative-histories-mi8x-67cq\".\"government_administrative_histories\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.