The British Columbia History Internet/Web Site

Online Databases

Last revision: 2001.08.23

IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the explosion of databases on the Web, this page is frozen as of May 31, 2000. Databases will be listed only under their appropriate subject matter or organization.

Change Note: January 19, 2001, updated addresses and descriptions of the Canadian Virtual War Memorial and MINFILE; February 26, 2001, updated description and link for Canadian Virtual War Memorial.

Change Note: November 2, 2001, updated bookmark for CAIN (Canadian Archival Information Network).

To search for new or updated content, use the page-search function of your Web browser and search on "date added" or "date updated". Dates are entered as "yyyy.mm.dd", for example, "2001.08.23".

• ArchiviaNet (National Archives of Canada) features several keyword searchable databases, including ones for photographs, artwork, and audio-visual records.
• British Columbia Archival Union List
• British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid contains a quick and thorough search engine.
• British Columbia Statutes and Regulations (Queen's Printer) contains full-text versions of all current statutes and regulations.
• British Columbia Vital Event Indexes: Births, Marriages and Deaths (BC Archives)
• CAIN (Canadian Archival Information Network) (Canadian Council of Archives). Updated: 2001.11.02.
• Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD, compiled by Dr. Richard Morlan, Canadian Museum of Civilization; sponsored by the Canadian Archaeological Association). Data is also available via the Mapping Ancient History application.
• Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) Database (National Archives of Canada) requires only a name to search for World War One Canadian military personnel.
• Canadian Heritage Information Network free databases include Artefacts Canada (formerly the National Inventories) and Artists in Canada.
• Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Veterans Affairs Canada and Canada's Digital Collections) includes a complete database of all known Canadians killed in military combat since The Nile Expedition (1884-1885). The database also contains military awards and a cemetery location.
• Index to Federal Royal Commissions (National Library of Canada) is an incomplete index containing citations only to commissions of inquiry with the words "Royal Commission" in their name. Out of several hundred such inquiries, the index covers only about 160.
• MINFILE: BC Mineral Inventory (BC Ministry of Energy and Mines) includes "Capsule Geology and Bibliography" with historic mining data for each mineral occurrence.
• National Aboriginal Document Database (Canada's Aboriginal Digital Collections) contains keyword searchable statutes/acts, court decisions, and treaties in HTML, Adobe PDF, and WordPerfect file formats.
• National Aviation Museum (Ottawa) Archival Photo Database
• National Library of Canada Home Page will take you to a variety of online databases, several of which appear on the BC History Internet/WWW Page. Among the newest is resAnet, a Web interface to its AMICUS online catalogue; this link requires telnet software; login: NLCGUEST.
• Pan for Gold Databases (Ghosts of the Klondike Gold Rush)
• Ships and Shipping Database (Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room) indexes over 13,000 vessels on the Pacific Northwest Coast, including BC.
• Union of BC Indian Chiefs RG-10 File & Item Database: An IIG Data Clearinghouse Partnership provides keyword searching of selected finding aids to Indian Affairs Canada records at the National Archives of Canada.

INDEXES AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS via the Victoria Telecommunity Network for searching down other history resources not found on this page.

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Compiled by David Mattison, Victoria Telecommunity Network, BC. Copyright © 1995-2003 by David Mattison. This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.