Does the BC Archives have old maps of BC?
The BC Archives has a collection of over 40,000 maps relating to various geographical areas within the province. These maps date from the early explorers up to and including more recent tourist type maps. Our collection spans a broad range of areas such as maps prepared by the Royal Engineers, early land surveyors, admiralty charts, architectural plans, fire insurance a Atlases, and BC government maps to list only a few. The main card catalogue to the map collection is not available on our web site, although there is a small sample from the map collection currently on-line as a pilot project. Please see the “Cartographic Records” page for additional information about our cartographic collection. If you are requesting information by mail you will need to indicate a specific geographic location and date range. Reproductions, in the forms of microfilm printouts and diazo fiche (if you have access to a fiche reader) are available. See the Copying and Reproduction Services page for details
