[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Canadian immigration records question

[Dave Obee]

Gary

I have been using the B.C. Archives site since it went online in January 1997. It is of course listed on my CanGenealogy site.

I asked for clarification of "Vancouver BC Archives.gov." That reference made no sense to me. The B.C. Archives are in Victoria, not Vancouver. They don't have "Vancouver" in the name. A pure ".gov" suffix, without a further suffix, can only be used by a government agency in the United States. The B.C. Archives site does not have death certificates; it has references to death registration forms.

Dieter could have been referring to the Vancouver B.C. archives, which has material online, and has both "Vancouver" and "archives" in its web address. But it still would not work as a Canadian address, not with that ".gov." So I wanted to know what he meant. (If there is a new source for B.C. vital stats, I'd like to know!)

In any event, he has confirmed to me that yes, it was the B.C. Archives site that he was referring to.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Warner <garyw555 at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 15:05
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Canadian immigration records question
To: Dave Obee <daveobee at shaw.ca>
Cc: Dieter <dgkurtz at gmail.com>, ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> Dave,
> 
> The British Columbia vital records are on line at 
> http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes
> Gary
> 
> On 11/29/2011 1:47 PM, Dave Obee wrote:
> >I am not sure what you mean by Vancouver BC archives.gov site.
> >
> >Odds are your person did not come before 1945. Even after the 
> war, immigration from Germany was restricted for a few years. 
> And in any event, those records are not yet open for public 
> access, although you can ask for a copy of an individual's record.
> >
> >More information is near the bottom of this page:
> >
> >http://www.cangenealogy.com/immigration.html
> >
> >(CanGenealogy is a site that I put together for all of the 
> major Canadian sites.)
> >
> >Dave Obee
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Dieter<dgkurtz at gmail.com>
> >Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 13:32
> >Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Canadian immigration records question
> >To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have found a death certificate of a potential, important
> >>relative at the
> >>Vancouver BC Archives.gov site.
> >>This person immigrated from Leipzig, Germany, possibly in the
> >>1940's or
> >>50's.
> >>Passenger ship list record appear to exist online only for
> >>before 1900's.
> >>
> >>I apologize if this is not an appropriate question for this group.
> >>
> >>But does anyone know where to inquire about Canadian immigration
> >>records?
> >>
> >>Thank you,
> >>Dieter
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