BC Archives yesterday announced that the annual release of death (2001) and marriage (1946) records from the BC Vital Statistics Agency is expected in May.
This means that the provincial archives will soon after digitize the records and they will be published online, probably about six to eight weeks later.
Last year, because of the pandemic, the annual release took place at the beginning of July, and BC Archives uploaded the records toward the end of August.
British Columbia birth, marriage and death records can be searched in the provincial archives’ online Genealogy section.
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.
