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Welcome to the British Columbia Team, a sub-team of the Western Canada Team and part of the Canada Project.

Team Leader: Peggy Watkins

1 Mission
2 Goals
3 Sticker
4 Tasks
- 4.1 British Columbia Notables
- 4.2 Team Work!
5 Wikitree Resources
6 Resources
- 6.1 Citation Templates
- 6.2 Further Interest

Mission

The mission of the British Columbia Team is to add and improve profiles of early and significant British Columbians. Team members take primary responsibility for relevant profiles or family groups and work on merging duplicates, cleaning up profiles, adding sources, removing incorrect information and offer research assistance as needed.

Goals

For each person:

All duplicates merged into lowest number
PPP added
pertaining categories added
templates added
biography cleaned up and written, using the WikiTree Style Guide (can work with Profile Improvement Project for help)
Attached family meets these goals, too
Attached to the main WikiTree family tree (ask the GFR for help)

create Free Space profiles for events, places, and other topics of genealogical interest pertaining to British Columbia,

bring together WikiTreers with an interest in British Columbian families, and to share resources to further research.

Sticker

If you would like, you may add a sticker to the profiles you manage that belong to this team. This sticker is for all persons who have been identified as significant or early British Columbians.

Sample usage:

... ... ... is/was a significant British Columbian.

Tasks

Identify Profiles in need of project treatment
Add resources to the lists below
Give profile project treatment to Premiers of British Columbia and notables, if needed
Make sure that all the Colonial Administrators of British Columbia are linked to the main tree.
Make sure that all the Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia are linked to the main tree.
Make sure that all the British Columbia Premiers are linked to the main tree.
Update Indigenous categories and naming conventions. See: Indigenous Naming conventions and categories.

British Columbia Notables

Colonial_British_Columbia

Progress: profiles: 5/5: 100%, succession boxes: 5/5: 100%, linked to the main tree: 3/5: 60%

British Columbia Lieutenant Governors

Progress: profiles: 29/29: 100%, succession boxes: 29/29: 100%, linked to the main tree: 10/29: 34%

British Columbia Premiers

Progress: profiles: 100%, succession boxes: 100%, linked to the main tree: 100% (of deceased premiers)

See this page for additional pages of notables:

British Columbia Notables

Interest in Notables? Consider joining the Notables Team:

Canada Project Notables Team

Team Work!

Source the Unsourced!

Go here: BC Unsourced Profiles
Pick a profile and start sourcing!
Once you find a source, remove the Unsourced category or banner from the profile.
You may want to participate in a Sourcerers' Challenge!
Find out more about sources.

Heal as a Data Doctor!

Have a look at the Suggestion List for BC and work through a few of the suggestions.
Be sure to add a source, if you can or leave the unsourced sticker on the profile, if needed.
Learn more here. There are lots of videos on how to be a good Data Doctor. You may also want to participate in Weekly Challenge & Annual Clean-a-Thon!

Connect the Unconnected!

Have a look at the Connectors Project and Connectors Challenge for info and inspiration.
Then go here to work on Unconnected BC profiles and start connecting!
Help connect a BC Notable! Go into one of these lists and look for Unconnected profiles in the Silver category.
You can also work on the Unconnected profiles from your own watchlist.
Remember to add at least one source for new profiles added.
You may be interested in participating in the Connect-a-thon!
If you have questions; watch the how-to video.

Remember those who served in WWI!

Visit: British Columbia World War One and improve one of the listed profiles. This page also includes resources.
or search for BC profiles that may have been killed in WWI by using the search page or WT+.

Remember the victims of disaster!

Visit: Canada Mining Disasters Team: BC and choose a mining disaster to research.
When you add a profile related to one of the disasters be sure to add the category and sticker.

Fill the Passenger Lists!

Visit: Early Arrivals to Vancouver Island and help document the pioneers who arrived in BC via the Tynemouth Bride Ship and many more ships that brought people to our shores.
Be sure to add the appropriate categories to the profiles you create. That way we will have a complete list of those with WikiTree profiles.

Tell the story of BC Japanese Canadians!

Visit: Japanese Canadians who lived in British Columbia.

Tell the story of early BC African Americans!

Visit: African Americans migrate to British Columbia 1858.
This is a new project but if you'd like to help, let Peggy know.

Join the First Peoples Canada Team!

Visit: First Peoples Canada
Join this team, if you are interested in helping document the Indigenous families and communities of BC.

Ask questions: If you need help getting started on any of these projects, email Peggy.

Wikitree Resources

British Columbian Sticker

Stickers

Canada sticker: can be used to indicate a person lived in British Columbia.

Example: {{Canada Sticker |location=British Columbia, Canada |born-in=yes}}

Migrating ancestor sticker: can be used to indicate a person moved to British Columbia.

Military sticker

Resources

British Columbia Archives
BC Archives search page
British Columbia Genealogical Society
Library Archives Canada - British Columbia
Vancouver Island Census 1871-1911
BC Historical Newspapers 1859-1995
British Columbia City Directories 1860-1955
British Columbia Online Genealogy
British Columbia Adoption Searching
British Columbia on Family Search
British Columbia GenWeb
British Columbia WikiPedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia, British Columbia
Famous People from British Columbia
List of people from British Columbia - Wikipedia
The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Gabriel Dumont Institute, in partnership with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, the Department of Canadian Heritage's Canadian Culture Online Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, the Government of Canada and the University of Saskatchewan
Catholic church records of the Pacific Northwest : Vancouver, volumes I and II, and Stellamaris Mission"
Colonial North American Place Names (Google spreadsheet)

Citation Templates

See: Canada Project Source Citations

Further Interest

Vancouver Archives: The Vancouver Archives post a blog called Authenticity, which covers all kinds of fascinating stuff about what's available in the archives, what's newly added, and so on. Currently, they're doing a series on using the resources in the archives to research the history of a particular building, like, say, the house your grandparents lived in.

Changing Vancouver: There's another blog called Changing Vancouver which posts historic photos of different buildings in Vancouver, with accompanying photos of how the same place looks today, with a short history of the building(s) involved. I don't know who's behind it, but apparently, they haunt the public library and the archives, because they dig up the most amazing facts.

WestEndVancouver: "This site is about the history of the West End in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, starting in the late 1800s and running to about 1920. It deals mostly with the West of Denman area, from Denman Street on the east to Stanley Park on the west, and from Coal Harbour on the north to English Bay on the south."

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