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Online Digital Records and indexes

1858-1921 - Victoria Newspapers
1858-1951 - The British Colonist Online Edition, Victoria
1861-1875 Genealogical Extracts from BC Newspapers, 1861 to 1875
1878-1886 Canadian Deaths 1878-1886 Abstracted from The Dominion Annual Register and Review
1911-1990 - Central Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, Newspaper Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes, 1911-1990 at Ancestry ($)
1901-1939 - British Columbia, Victoria Times Birth, Marriage and Death Notices, 1901-1939 Images. FamilySearch. ^[1]
BC Historical Newspapers at The University of British Columbia
Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: British Columbia
Prince George Newspapers Project
See the British Columbia Genealogical Society's BC Newspapers, Obituaries page for an up to date list of on-line historical newspapers from British Columbia.
The Ancestor Hunt : British Columbia Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Wikipedia has more about this subject: List of online newspaper archives

Libraries and Archives

Library and Archives Canada

Geographical Index List: British Columbia Newspapers

If you cannot visit the library, these research options are available:

City of Vancouver Archives

We have news clippings from 1886 to the present, located in the Reading Room on microfiche. Use news clippings for information about individuals, families, businesses, and other organizations, industries, issues, and more. There are four sets of microfiche, each with its own alphabetical index. Record details:

JSM News Clippings (1886 – 1970): Card index
CVA News Clippings (1972 – present): Card index
Pacific Press I (circa 1930 – 1980): Pacific Press binder
Pacific Press II (circa 1930 – 1985): Pacific Press binder

City of Vancouver Archives
1150 Chestnut Street
Vancouver B.C. V6J 3J9
Canada

Phone:604-736-8561
Email: archives@vancouver.ca
Website

Royal British Columbia Museum (Provincial Archives)

British Columbia Community Newspapers on Microfilm at BC Archives

“The collection does not include the major 20th century Vancouver and Victoria daily newspapers; researchers are advised to contact public libraries, university libraries, or the Legislative Library of British Columbia for these materials.”^[2]

Other Libraries

Major microfilm newspaper collections for British Columbia are at the sources listed below. Other larger public and academic libraries may hold significant collections. And many local British Columbia archives, libraries and museums have collections of local area newspapers.

Contact information for these sources is given in the British Columbia Archives and Libraries section of the wiki.

Greater Victoria Public Library
New Westminster Public Library
Simon Fraser University W.A.C. Bennett Library
University of British Columbia Koerner Library
College of New Caledonia

Indexes

Birth, marriage and death references from the Campbell River Upper Islander. WorldCat Campbell River: Campbell River Genealogy Club, 2000-(ongoing). Published so far, v.1. 1964-1975–v.2. 1977-1990.
Birth, marriage and death references from the Campbell River Courier. WorldCat Campbell River: Campbell River Genealogy Club, 1998-(ongoing). Published so far, v.1. 1947-1959–v. 2. 1960-1974.
British Columbia vital statistics from newspapers, 1858-1872: including, in an appendix, vital statistics from diaries 1852-1857, by Brian J. Porter & the British Columbia Genealogical Society. Richmond: British Columbia Genealogical Society, 1994.
Name index of the births, marriages, deaths published in the Nanaimo Free Press, April 1874 to December 1899. Nanaimo: Nanaimo Family History Society, 1991.
British Columbia Vital Statistics From Newspapers 1858-1872, Including Vital Statistics From Diaries WorldCat by Brian J. Porter (British Columbia Genealogical Society, 1994).
Index of Newspapers 1902-1914 in Delta, British Columbia by Donalda J. James, Delta Diggers Genealogy Group (1998).
Community Portrait, Abstract of Biographical Details From the Ladner Optimist Newspaper Columns 1951-196, a finding Aid WorldCatby Donalda J. James ().
Brides and grooms of the 1950's : marriage information published in The Ladner Optimist newspaper during the decade of the 1950's WorldCat by Donalda J. James (British Columbia Genealogical Sociery, 1999).
Brides and grooms of the 1960's: marriage information published in The Ladner Optimist newspaper during the decade of the 1960's by Donalda J. James (British Columbia Genealogical Sociery, 2002).
Index to: Rambling column, South Delta today and Delta optimist newspapers, 1989-2000 by journalist/historian Edgar Dunning by Donalda J. James (2001).
Campbell River Birth, Marriage and Death Extractions from the Comox Argus Newspaper 1917-1945 by the Campbell River Genealogy Club (1996).

Newspaper Directories

George Allan Affleck.Paper trails: a history of British Columbia and Yukon community newspapers. Vancouver: Arch Communications, 1999.

Hana Komorous. Union Catalogue of British Columbia Newspapers. Vancouver: British Columbia Library Association, 1987. Includes a list of indexed newspapers, locales, names of editors and publishers.

British Columbia newspapers: register of microform masters. Vancouver: British Columbia Library Association, 1987. .

Ruell Smith. Canadian newspapers in the University of British Columbia Library. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 1974.

For Further Reading

For detailed information about researching historical Canadian newspapers, see Researching Canadian newspaper Recordsby Ryan Taylor (Heritage Productions, 2002).

References

↑ Victoria Times newspaper. Victoria City Archives. Browsable chronological collection of newspaper notices pasted onto cards with date, page number. This newspaper was variously titled: Victoria Times, Victoria Weekly Times, and Victoria Daily Times.
↑ Taylor, Ryan, "Canada Newspaper Indexes and Abstracts - International Institute, " The International Institute of Genealogical Studies (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Canada_Newspaper_Indexes_and_Abstracts_%28National_Institute%29.

[1] Victoria Times newspaper. Victoria City Archives. Browsable chronological collection of newspaper notices pasted onto cards with date, page number. This newspaper was variously titled: Victoria Times, Victoria Weekly Times, and Victoria Daily Times.

[ryan-2] Taylor, Ryan, "Canada Newspaper Indexes and Abstracts - International Institute, " The International Institute of Genealogical Studies (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Canada_Newspaper_Indexes_and_Abstracts_%28National_Institute%29.

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