If you were planning to soon explore this year’s annual release of death (2002) and marriage (1947) records from the BC Vital Statistics Agency, BC Archives has bad news.
British Columbia’s provincial archives announced last week that the BC Vital Statistics Agency has delayed the annual release of death and marriage records from this past May to late summer 2023. A few weeks following the release, the digitized vital statistics will be made available to the public online.
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 next year, researchers will have to be satisfied with the online birth records from 1854 to 1903.
