Blame the pandemic.
The online release of vital statistics on BC Archives’ website is coming, but not as early as in previous years.
BC Archives only received the new data from Vital Statistics BC this week.
Last year, the records were released to the provincial archives in May.
According to Dave Stewart, the head of IT and Digital at the Royal BC Museum, the British Columbia marriage registrations from 1945 and death registrations from 2000 will likely be posted on the BC Archives website in September.
The next time a new collection of BC birth registrations will be released is 2024 — 120 years after the 1904 births were registered. In 2004, the British Columbia Vital Statistics Act added an extra 20 years to the release of births, extending it to 120 years. Until then, researchers will have to be satisfied with the online birth records from 1854 to 1903.
