No. 04 / The Ledger
The Ledger
A monthly record of what changed on the List. Each month the register is read against the month before, and the differences go on a sheet: what was added, what became reachable, what was corrected, what came off. It reports the record, not the region.
Register sheet
July 2026
2,948 on record
The founding sheet. The List opened with 2,948 entries, each traced to a public source and carrying the date it was last seen there. From the next sheet on, this page records what changed.
2,948 on record · sheet stamped 24 JUL 2026
How the Ledger works
The register, read against itself, once a month.
Where it comes from
The register itself. Every month a snapshot of the List is kept, and the new sheet is the difference between that snapshot and the one before it. No sheet is written by hand, so no sheet can quietly go stale.
What it can say
Only what the record shows. A business is added to the List on the day it was recorded, which is not the day it opened. A record that comes off is one that could no longer be verified, which is not a business closing. The sheet keeps to the register.
Kept by Brett Faucher, Castlegar.