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British Columbia Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

British Columbia Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index
• British Columbia – British Columbia Birth Registrations, 1854-1903, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Victoria Times Birth, Marriage and Death Notices, 1901-1939, index & images
• British Columbia – Birth registrations, 1872-1903 (for birth years, 1854-1903), vols. 1-322; delayed birth registrations for birth years, 1869-1903, vols. 700, 900-914; delayed birth registrations for birth years, 1859-1903, photocopied from vols. 323-1058 (excluding volumes 700, 795, 900-914, and 995-998); delayed registrations of Indian births, 1868-1903, vols. 795, 995A-998A

British Columbia Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index
• British Columbia – British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Victoria Times Birth, Marriage and Death Notices, 1901-1939, index & images
• British Columbia – Marriage registrations, 1872-1936; microfiche index, 1872-1921, original indexes for brides, 1872-1942, and grooms, 1872-1939; Indian marriages, 1917-1936
• British Columbia – Pre-confederation marriage records, 1859-1872

British Columbia Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
• British Columbia – British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993, index
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Victoria Times Birth, Marriage and Death Notices, 1901-1939, index & images

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index

Obituaries

• British Columbia – In memory of Burson Leone “Lee” Jamieson
• Canada – Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police obituary card index and notices, 1876-2007, index & images

Wills & Probate

• British Columbia – British Columbia Estate Files, 1859-1949, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia Wills, 1861-1981, index & images
• British Columbia – Central will registry maintained by [the] Dept. of Attorney General of all wills probated in the province, 1861-1939 (will nos. 1-31,200)
• British Columbia – Probate files and index, 1893-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1881-1928
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1881-1932
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1890-1949
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1891-1926
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1892-1938
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1895-1926
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1901-1905
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1901-1917
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1901-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1902-1934
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1904-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1905-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1905-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1908-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1910-1927
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1914-1925
• British Columbia – Probate files, 1916-1925
• British Columbia – Probate/estate files, 1859-1924; probate index, 1861-1981
• British Columbia – Probate/estate files, 1881-Jan. 1927

British Columbia Residence Records

Census

• Canada – Canada Census, 1881, index & images
• Canada – Census schedules, 1881
• Canada – Canada Census, 1891, index
• Canada – Census schedules, 1891
• Canada – Canada Census, 1901, index & images
• Canada – Census schedules, 1901
• Canada – Canada Census, 1911, index
• Canada – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911: schedule 1, population

Directories

• British Columbia – Canada, British Columbia, Pacific Northwest directory, 1882-1898
• British Columbia – Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
• British Columbia – Handbook almanac for the Pacific states : an official register and business directory
• British Columbia – McKenney’s Pacific Coast directory, 1883-1884
• British Columbia – Mercantile guide to cities and suburbs of the United States of America
• British Columbia – Pacific Coast business directory, 1867
• British Columbia – The Pacific Coast directory : giving name, business, and address of business and professional men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, and New Mexico together with sketches of the different towns, giving location, population, etc.
• British Columbia – R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia gazetteers and business directories, 1886-1902
• British Columbia – The Williams’ official British Columbia directory : with a classified business directory

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Canada – Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
• British Columbia – Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver and Victoria, list of Chinese passengers, 1906-1941
• British Columbia – Immigration Form 30A, ocean arrivals, 1919-1924
• British Columbia – Ships’ passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935
• British Columbia – United States, border crossings from Canada to United States, Land Border Entries and Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1894-1905
• British Columbia – Vancouver Island War Brides Association …

Land & Property

• British Columbia – British Columbia, Crown Land Grant Records, 1851-1874, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Crown Land Grants, 1869-1930, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Crown Land Pre-emption Registers, 1860-1971, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia, Dominion Land Branch Records, 1885-1949, index & images
• British Columbia – British Columbia Crown land grants and indexes, 1869-1930
• British Columbia – British Columbia Crown land grants, 1851-1874
• British Columbia – Correspondence, applications for homestead entry, applications for patents, and registers relating to land settlement in the Railway Belt and the Peace River Block, 1885-1949
• British Columbia – Crown land pre-emption registers (indexed), 1860-1971

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• British Columbia – The Oregonian’s handbook of the Pacific Northwest
• British Columbia – British Columbia coast names, 1592-1906, to which are added a few names in adjacent United States territory : their origin and history
• British Columbia – Disturnell’s business directory and gazetteer of the West Coast of North America, 1882-1883
• British Columbia – R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia gazetteers and business directories, 1886-1902
• British Columbia – The Williams’ official British Columbia directory : with a classified business directory
• British Columbia – British Columbia coast names, 1592-1906, to which are added a few names in adjacent United States territory : their origin and history

Naturalization & Citizenship

• British Columbia – British Columbia Naturalization Records, 1859-1926, index & images
• British Columbia – Naturalization applications and oaths of allegiance, 1859-1917, 1926, Victoria County Court, British Columbia
• British Columbia – Naturalization records, 1859-1917, Victoria County Court, British Columbia
• British Columbia – Naturalization records, 1905-1923, Cranbrook County Court, British Columbia

Voters

• British Columbia – [List of voters in the several electoral districts in British Columbia, in force on the first of September, 1875]
• British Columbia – List of voters in the several electoral districts in British Columbia, in force on the first of September, 1876
• British Columbia – Nanaimo, Ladysmith and district, 1920 voters list

British Columbia Daily Life Records

Biography

• British Columbia – Biographical dictionary of well-known British Columbians, with a historical sketch
• British Columbia – British Columbia from the earliest times to the present
• British Columbia – A history of British Columbia
• British Columbia – Pan-Pacific who’s who, an international reference work : a biographical encyclopedia of men and women of substantial achievement in the Pan-Pacific area: Alaska, Australia, British Columbia, California, Canal Zone, China, Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Oregon, Philippines, Washington
• British Columbia – Who’s who in the West : a biographical dictionary of noteworthy men and women of the Pacific coast and western states

Business Records & Commerce

• British Columbia – The Cariboo trail : a chronicle of the goldfields of British Columbia

Church

• British Columbia – The British Columbia mission, or, Metlahkatlah
• British Columbia – Columbia mission : A sermon preached in St. Stephen’s, Westminster, on the Sunday before Advent, 1860
• British Columbia – Columbia mission : A sermon preached in St. Stephen’s, Westminster, on the Sunday before Advent, 1860
• British Columbia – Presbyterian pioneer missionaries : in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia
• British Columbia – Church records, 1877-1910
• British Columbia – Church records, 1898-1918

Description & Travel

• British Columbia – Canada on the Pacific: being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley; and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the Dominion; with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia
• British Columbia – English lands and English homes in the Far West : being the story of a holiday tour in Canada
• British Columbia – Hunting for gold : reminis[c]ences of personal experience and research in the early days of the Pacific coast from Alaska to Panama
• British Columbia – Spilsbury’s coast : pioneer years in the wet west

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• British Columbia – Gildersleeve-Owens : pioneer loggers in coastal British Columbia, 1917-1956
• British Columbia – Material relevant to British Columbia labour history in RC 27, Canada Department of Labour Records = : D̈ocumentation relative ä l’histoire ouvriëre de la Colombie-Britannique dans le Groupe d’archives fëdërales (RG) 27, Canada, Ministëre du Travail ̈

Ethnic Records

Native American Records

• British Columbia – The British Columbia mission, or, Metlahkatlah
• British Columbia – Canada on the Pacific: being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley; and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the Dominion; with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia
• British Columbia – The coast Salish of British Columbia
• British Columbia – Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia : with a map illustrating distribution
• British Columbia – The devil and Mr. Duncan
• British Columbia – The Native races
• British Columbia – The Salishan tribes of the western plateaus

Minorities

• British Columbia – The Baptist story in Western Canada
• British Columbia – Zbitnoff collection

Folklore

• British Columbia – The Salishan tribes of the western plateaus

Genealogy

• British Columbia – AncesTree (Nanaimo Family History Society : British Columbia)

History

• British Columbia – Biographical dictionary of well-known British Columbians, with a historical sketch
• British Columbia – Blazing the trail through the Rockies; the story of Walter Moberly and his share in the making of Vancouver
• British Columbia – British Columbia from the earliest times to the present
• British Columbia – British Columbia from the earliest times to the present
• British Columbia – The Cariboo trail : a chronicle of the goldfields of British Columbia
• British Columbia – The devil and Mr. Duncan
• British Columbia – The First sixty years
• British Columbia – Forgotten villages of the BC Coast
• British Columbia – A glance at British Columbia and Vancouver’s Island in 1861
• British Columbia – The golden state : a history of the region west of the Rocky mountains ; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the 1st period to the present time … with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons
• British Columbia – A history of British Columbia
• British Columbia – History of British Columbia : from its earliest discovery to the present time
• British Columbia – History of British Columbia, 1792-1887
• British Columbia – The history of the northern interior of British Columbia, formerly New Caledonia (1660 to 1880)
• British Columbia – History of the Northwest coast, 1543-1846
• British Columbia – History of the Pacific states of North America
• British Columbia – Pioneer days in British Columbia : a selection of historical articles from BC Outdoors magazine
• British Columbia – Pioneers of the Pacific coast : a chronicle of sea rovers and fur hunters
• British Columbia – Pitlighting through conscription : 1916-1923 memoirs of Golden Stanley
• British Columbia – The story of Ben-My-Chree
• British Columbia – Two Bennington-born explorers and makers of modern Canada
• British Columbia – The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• British Columbia – Union list of current Japanese serials in six East Asian libraries of western North America : University of British Columbia; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Hawaii; Hoover Institution, Stanford University; University of Washington

Magazines & Periodicals

• British Columbia – Argus, 1967-1974
• British Columbia – The Year book of British Columbia and manual of provincial information
• British Columbia – AncesTree (Nanaimo Family History Society : British Columbia)

Merchant Marine

• British Columbia – Agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920
• British Columbia – Canada, Merchant Marine agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920

Social Life & Customs

• British Columbia – Forgotten villages of the BC Coast

Societies

• British Columbia – Proceedings of the eighth session of the Grand Lodge, A.O.U.W. of British Columbia : held at Victoria, B.C., March 8th and 9th, 1899

British Columbia Military Records

World War I

• British Columbia – History of the 72nd Canadian infantry battalion : Seaforth Highlanders of Canada