Angry in the Great White North

Here is the text of the email I received:

I am contacting you today on behalf of Library and Archives Canada regarding the archiving of your blog, Angry in the Great White North, http://www.stevejanke.com .

Library and Archives Canada's (LAC's) mandate is to preserve the documentary heritage of Canada for the benefit of present and future generations. The Library and Archives of Canada Act was assented to on April 22, 2004 and, for the purposes of preservation, it now allows LAC to collect a representative sample of Canadian web sites on the Internet.

During the 2008 Federal Election campaign we took snapshots of the websites of all registered political parties, as well as key Canadian political blogs.  With your permission, we would like to incorporate the snapshots we took of your blog into LAC's collections and make them available on our website, http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca.

Thank you for considering this request.  I hope you will recognize the historical value of a comprehensive collection of Canadian political party websites and Canadian political blogs and that you will agree to have your blog included.

I have agreed, and am honoured to do so.  It's one of those moments that makes you think about your place in the big picture.  I know my place is small, and yet, small as it is, it's going to be remembered in some fashion along with other Canadian blogs of significance.

All bloggers, whether they are being archived or not, ought to feel proud.

Looking forward, I know that as the years go by, and my kids get older, I can point to this archive and show them my contribution to our shared Canadian story.  And they'll tell their kids, and it'll be part of our family's story.

After I'm gone, the archive will persist.  People I've never met, people who haven't been born yet, will read my words as they look back and imagine what it must have been like to be living the years we're living in now.  I'll be helping them do that.

Like I said -- humbling.