The BC Vital Statistics Agency has provided this year’s release of records, and they’re now available to search online on BC Archives’ website. The newly released records include marriage registrations from 1946 and death registrations from 2001.
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.
