This year’s release of British Columbia’s birth, marriage and death records took place in May, and somehow I missed it, until now.
On May 11, BC Archives announced that the release of births, death and marriage records from the BC Vital Statistics Agency was available and searchable on the provincial archives’ Genealogy database. Included in this release were births registered in 1904, marriages from 1950, and deaths from 2005.
It has been a very long time wait to see new birth registrations made available online. For the last two decades, the most recent birth registrations had been from 1903. In 2004, the British Columbia Vital Statistics Act added an extra 20 years to the release of births, extending it to 120 years.










