Construction and maintenance of a non-commercial archive of distributions made by Canadian securities that is:
Canadian ETFs collect income - and realize capital gains - from portfolio holdings. Tax law requires them to distribute income and gains to shareholders, and also requires distributions to be categorized so that income taxes can be assessed correctly. It isn't simple for the payers or the recipients of these distributions, as the Income Tax Act requires a breakdown into (at least) nine categories.
The original motivation for this project was collecting and organizing the tax breakdowns of ETF distributions (hence the domain name). These breakdowns are usually published by the payer after year end, but complete historical records are difficult to find and aren't available from a single convenient source. Pre-internet data is always a challenge, but public domain documents first published and easily accessed on the internet simply vanish. Where archives do exist, barriers to use by the public include gaps, duplications, obvious mistakes, onerous restrictions on use, and high fees.