British Columbia Directories

Canada British Columbia Directories

Online Directories

British Columbia, Canada directories from 1860 to 1952 are available free on-line at the Vancouver Public Library's British Columbia City Directories website.

• Dave Obee's Guide to Directories, with direct links to online directories by year and place for British Columbia: http://www.daveobee.com/resources/direct-bc.html
  
• Search Directory listings for the cities of Nanaimo and Victoria for 1882, 1892 and 1902 (see viHistory:Directory)

Additional online directories for British Columbia will be found at these websites:

Online Historical Directories, Canada. Miriam Robbins: https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home/can

Don's List, Canada, Don Krieger:http://evendon.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm

Peel's Prairie Provinces (aka Peel's Bibliography), University of Alberta: http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html

OurRoots.ca: http://www.ourroots.ca

Publications

Western Canadian Directories on microfiche and microfilm, compiled by Dave Obee, Second Edition, Victoria, BC, 2001.

Many British Columbia directories up to and including 1900 are available on the following microfiche set:

• Pre-1900 Canadian Directories. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1988. (On 4219 Family History Library fiche beginning with fiche 6360453. These fiche do not circulate to Family History Centers.)
  

Additional Websites

• http://www.canadiana.org/eco.php?doc=microcoll
• http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/Canada/British_Columbia/
• See also Canada Directories.