BCGS Members’ Indexing Projects

Many BCGS members have their own genealogical and historical indexing projects. With their permission, some of these will be featured here. So far, we have indexes for research in Maillardville (Coquitlam), BC, for BC community cook books, and for early vehicle permit holders.

Maillardville – Index Cumulatif for Maillardville, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Compiled by Maurice Guibord. Includes a list of ‘Maillardville Pioneers’. 168 pages. In French and English, (.pdf file)

Indexed in this publication are the following books:

Paré, Antonio G. (Tony), My Memoirs of Le Vieux Maillardville. Self-published, 1997, 356 pages.

Debeugny, Florence. Maillardville: 100 ans et plus – 100 years and beyond. Société francophone de Maillardville, 2009, 238 pages, plus a CD of a 16-minute film also titled Maillardville: 100 ans et plus – 100 years and beyond.

Spagnolo, Alexandre and Catou Lévesque. Regards sur Maillardville avec la Liste des mariages célébrés de 1911 à 1950, Vancouver, Société Historique Franco-Colombienne, 1980, 32 pages.

The index’s author, Maurice Guidbord. welcomes reports of errors or omissions at: mguibord @ shaw.ca

You may also be interested in the article, “Maillardville, a francophone community in British Columbia” by Geneviève Lapointe in the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America. That article offers downloads of two history pamphets, one on the Maillardville parish of Notre-Dame de Lourdes, and the other illustrates a walking tour of Maillardville.

British Columbia Community Cook Book Index

This on-going index includes the surnames, given names and residences for people, usually shown as contributors, mentioned in cook books organized and/or published by community groups in British Columbia and/or other parts of Canada.

Contact M. Diane Rogers diane_rogers @ shaw.ca for details or to add more information. In most cases, where it appears an individual appears in the index two or more times, duplicate entries have been omitted here.

Currently this index includes these cook books:

Reference CC – The Canadian Cookbook. British Columbia names only in this index. Davis & Lawrence Company, Montreal.No publication date given.

Reference DCCC – Home Town Recipes of Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek Ladies Curling Club, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Women’s Clubs Publishing Co., Ltd. Chicago, Illinois, USA. No publication date given.

Reference GGGV – Girl Guide Cook Book, compiled and arranged by the Guides of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia. No date given, but from internal evidence, after 1932.

British Columbia Auto Permit Holders, 1904-1905

This indexing project is on-going and is part of a project documenting early vehicle owners in British Columbia, Canada, and, where possible, their vehicles.This particular information has been extracted from BC Motor Vehicle Branch records held by the British Columbia Archives. In some cases, additional information is available from the indexer, who would be happy too to hear from those with more information about the vehicle owner or their vehicles. Please contact M. Diane Rogers: diane_rogers @ shaw.ca