Vancouver Island, British Columbia Genealogy

Guide to Vancouver Island ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. 

Repositories
VI History This website's searchable database includes well over 150,000 records, including nominal census records from 1871 to 1911 and the 1891 "check census" done by the City of Victoria. Complementary records include directories, tax assessment rolls and maps of the cities of Nanaimo and Victoria, along with Victoria Building Construction Documents, 1877 – 1921.