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Inventory & Storage of Records
LTSA's land registration records created at offices throughout the province are now stored in these locations.
Storage of Records
- LTSA’s New Westminster vault houses historic records from the Vancouver and New Westminster land title districts.
- LTSA’s Victoria vault houses Victoria, Kamloops, Nelson, Prince George, and Prince Rupert land title district historic records.
- LTSA’s Victoria and New Westminster vaults have been custom designed to store and conserve historical records, including fire and flood damage mitigation.
- DocuWare, the document management software LTSA uses to store digital historic records, is accessible by LTSA employees and those with direct access privileges, who have a DocuWare user account, from terminals in the LTSA’s offices.
- LTSA is in the process of digitizing approximately 48,000 reels of microfilm. There are approximately 7,000+ reels associated with the Kamloops and Nelson land title districts which were digitized and accessible through DocuWare prior to the duplicate microfilm reels being relocated to Victoria in October 2021.
Records Inventory
The table below provides an overview of the date range and physical extent of the historic land title records of the seven original land title offices. Please note:
- It does not identify gaps in records holdings, missing volumes, or other anomalies that are explained in the inventory database that will be made available on this website when completed. For the purpose of this overview, partial volumes are treated as whole volumes.
- To date, the historic records inventory has focused on land title records in paper format. Consequently, records that exist only in microform or digital format are not included in this overview. Some of the documents coded as “None Found” may in fact exist on microfilm.
- “Ongoing” indicates that the record series was still being created in 2008. The plus (+) sign following a quantity of plans indicates that the number is approximate because the series is ongoing.
Victoria | New Westminster | Vancouver | Prince Rupert | Prince George | Kamloops | Nelson | |
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Inclusive Years | 1860 ongoing | 1885 ongoing | 1891-1990 | 1909-2002 | 1966-2002 | 1893 ongoing | 1901-1997 |
Record Series Title | |||||||
Absolute Fees Parcels Book | 12 volumes, 1861-1907 | 10 volumes, 1871-1915 | 8 volumes, 1871-1905 | 1 volume, 1874-1906 | None Found | 6 volumes, 1870-1907 | 5 volumes, 1881-1906 |
Bylaw Plans | 1012 plans, 1919-1980 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Certificates of Indefeasible Title | 5 volumes, 1866-1905 | 3 volumes, 1884-1954 | 1 volume, 1905-1913 | None Found | None Found | 1 tank, 1910-1912 | 5 dockets, 1914-1923 |
Charge Parcels Book | 8 volumes, 1861-1906 | 6 volumes, 1870-1905 | 7 volumes, 1871-1905. | 1 volume, 1870-1905 | None Found | 4 volumes, 1870-1906 | 2 volumes, 1886-1906 |
Church Property Plans | 31 plans, 1924-1951 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Conveyances | 6 volumes, 1861-1870 | 3 volumes, 1862-1870 | None Found | None Found | None Found | 9 volumes, 1862-1870 | 1 volume, 1867 only |
Crown Grant Documents | 4 tanks of documents, 1920-1980 | 75 tanks of documents, 1892 ongoing | 43 tanks and 42 files of documents, 1872-2001 | 70 tanks of documents, 1895-2000 | 156 tanks of documents, 1896-2002 | 171 tanks of documents, 1893 ongoing | 120 tanks, 1896-1997 |
Deeds Deposited | 497 tanks of documents; 1860-1979 | 1 tank; 1880-1919 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | 2 tanks, 1892-1918 |
Documents Deposited | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Documents Filed | 20 tanks of documents, 1862-1971 | 64 drawers plus 10 records storage boxes of documents, 1920-1959 | None Found | 2 tanks of documents, ca. 1900-1971 | None Found | None Found | 2 tanks of documents, 1921-1966 |
Documents Filed Plans | 970 plans, 1929-1967 | 49 tanks, 1929-1987 | 187 tanks, 1887-1991 | 12 tanks of plans, 1912-1971 | None Found | ca. 1080 plans, 1899-1966 | 11 tanks of plans, ????-1966 |
General Plan Series | 79430+ plans, 1861 ongoing | 170300+ plans, 1878 ongoing | 22800 plans, 1882-1991 | 74000 plans, 1915-1997 | ca. 35500 plans, 1909-2002 | 25 tanks of plans, 39000 plans, also those in a “blended” series, 1914 ongoing | None Found |
Highway Plans | Filed in Right-of-Way Plan series | None Found | 182 plans, 1953-1978; effective 1979, filed in Explanatory & Reference Plan series | Inventory in Progress | 250 plans, plus those in Running Number Series, 1948-1994 | 954 plans, 1947-1967; plus “H” series plans in “blended” series, 1967-1985 | 374 plans, 1931-1975 |
Indian Reserve Plans | 79 plans, 1876-1934 | None Found | 1 plan, 1916 | None Found | 2 plans, ????-1964 | None Found | None Found |
Key Plans | 1351 plans, 1914-1946 | 1675 plans, ????-1981 | 4 map books and 324 plans, 1914-1985 | None Found | None Found | 1 volume, ????-???? | 154 plans and 1 volume, 1914-1953 |
Official Survey Plans | 796 plans, 1909-1980 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Posting Plans | 4370 plans, 1965-1980 | 930 plans, 1991 only; effective 1992, filed in General Plan Series | 122 tanks, 1937-1991 | None Found | None Found | Part of approx. 2800 plans, 1966-1987, after which filed in General Plan Series | None Found |
Railway and Foreshore Plans | None Found | None Found | 19954 plans, 1907-1990 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Railway Plans | None Found | None Found | None Found | ca. 73 plans, 1903-1960 | None Found | ca. 300 plans, 1913-1955 | None Found |
Record of Agreements and Miscellaneous Instruments | 3 volumes, 1870-1921 | None Found | 4 volumes, 1884-1932 | None Found | None Found | 2 volumes, 1870-1893 | 1 volume, 1888-1900 |
Record of Conveyances | 2 volumes, 1870-1921 | 2 volumes, 1870-1920 | 2 volumes, 1871-1907 | None Found | None Found | 7 volumes, 1862-1910 | 2 volumes, 1877-1920 |
Record of Mortgages | 2 volumes, 1870-1919 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | 1 volume, 1870-1893 | 2 volumes, 1867-1899 |
Reference and Explanatory Plans | None Found | ca. 17460 plans, 1911-1960 | ca. 20650 plans, 1911-1991 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Reference Plans | 2089 plans, 1936-1980 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | ca. 1760 plans as part of “blended” series, 1967-1985 | None Found |
Register of Absolute Fees | 38 volumes, 1861-2003 | 55 volumes, 1871-2001 | 32 volumes, 1870-1919 | 3 volumes, 1874-1990 | 1 volume, 1894-1950 | 19 volumes, 1870-1991 | 19 volumes, 1881-2006 |
Register of Charges | 34 volumes, 1861-2000 | 25 volumes, 1870-2004 | 45 volumes, 1871-1998 | 3 volumes, 1870-1990 | 1 volume, 1912 only | 11 volumes, 1870-1991 | 8 volumes, 1886-2006 |
Register of Indefeasible Fees | 11 volumes, 1905-1914 | 15 volumes, 1905-1915 | 19 volumes, 1905-1917 | 6 volumes, 1905-1915 | 1 volume, 1906-1913 | 7 volumes, 1905-1920 | 3 volumes, 1905-1922 |
Register of Mortgages | 2 volumes, 1861-1870 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | 7 volumes, 1861-1920 | None Found |
Right-of-Way and Easement Plans | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | ca. 600 plans, 1914-1966 | part of “blended” series, 1914-1985 | None Found |
Right-of-Way Plans | 3480 plans, 1913-1980 | 6 plans, dates not yet determined | None Found | None Found | 850 plans, 1916-1966 | ca. 3260 plans, 1916-1985 | 642 plans, 1938-1975 |
Satisfaction Book | 7 volumes, 1861-1911 | None Found | 10 volumes, 1876-1911 | None Found | None Found | 5 volumes, 1878-1912 | 5 volumes, 1888-1912 |
Strata Plans | 5846+ plans, 1968 ongoing | 10111+ plans, 1968 ongoing | 2893 plans, 1968-1991 | 100+ plans, 1970-2001 | 356 plans, 1974-2002 | 318+ plans, 1970 ongoing | 231 plans, 1974-1997 |
Subdivision Plans | None Found | None Found | None Found | 3 plans, 1914 only | None Found | ca. 36000 plans, 1893-1985 | ca. 20850 plans, 1885-1997 |
Supplemental Charge Book | 1 volume, 1861-1870 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |
Supplemental Charges Parcels Book | 1 volume, 1861-1870 | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found | None Found |