British Columbia’s marriage registrations from 1947 and death registrations from 2002 are now available to search online. These records are part of the BC Vital Statistics Agency’s annual release.
Births (1854-1903), marriages (1871-1947), and deaths (1872-2002) can all be searched in BC Archives’ online Genealogy section.
If you need help navigating the vital statistics collection, the provincial archives has produced the Guide to the Genealogy Search.
The next time a new collection of BC birth registrations will be released is in 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.
