Good news from BC Archives. According to the latest announcement on its website, British Columbia’s provincial archives expects to receive the annual release of birth (1904), marriage (1949), and death (2004) records from the BC Vital Statistics Agency at the end of March 2025. After that, the provincial archives will digitize and post them on their website.
It has been 20 years since new BC birth records have been made available.
In 2004, the British Columbia Vital Statistics Act added an extra 20 years to the release of births, extending it to 120 years. For the last two decades, the most recent birth registrations have been from 1903.
So, when will we see this year’s release of birth, marriage and death registrations online? Most likely, we’ll be able to access them some time in the next several months.
Last year, the marriage and death records were made available online in mid-November. In 2023, the annual release of these records was published on the provincial archives’ website in August. In 2022, we had access to these records in June.
Search the online vital statistics on BC Archives’ website.
