The Brave New Play Rites festival began in 1986 under the initiative of UBC creative writing professor Bryan Wade. Wade sought a means for creative writing students to witness their theatrical works in front of a live audience and to become engaged in the theatrical process as a normal part of their coursework. Submitted plays were typically 20 minutes in length and student-authors were encouraged to participate in their play’s production from attending rehearsals to selecting actors. Creative writing courses that have participated in the festival included CRWR 407 and CRWR 507.
Brave New Play Rites continues as an annual festival into the present and a number of notable writers such as Dennis E. Bolen, Stephanie Bolster, Maureen Medved among others have had their plays featured in the festival. Wade also edited a published collection of one-act plays featured in the festival, Brave New Play Rites: Highlights plays from UBC's Creative Writing Department (Anvil Press, 2006).

In 1987 and 1988, the University of British Columbia students in Diane Newell's History 303 course ("The Canadian West") conducted a series of oral interviews with former Britannia Beach residents. The interviews were designed to provide students with a first-hand understanding of life in a mining community; this project was conducted in cooperation with the British Columbia Mining Museum. As a result, this collection provides valuable insights into the history of the Britannia Mining and Smelting Company and its impact on the community.

The British Colonist was a newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia.

Composed of representatives of the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Canada, and the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, the British Columbia Agricultural Coordinating Committee advised the Minister of Agriculture and allotted research funds for research projects within the province.

The British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society formed in 1904 in the aim to care for and treat people suffering with tuberculosis. In July 1907 the Society purchased the Fortune Ranch at Tranquille, near Kamloops, which they converted into a treatment facility. In 1920 the Directors of the Society commenced negotiations with the provincial government to take over operation of the Tranquille Hospital. On February 23, 1921 an agreement was signed and the Tranquille Hospital was transferred to the Province of British Columbia. This marked the formal end of the British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society. On October 30, 1922 the Tranquille Tuberculosis Publicity Society was incorporated under the Societies Act of British Columbia, and on November 9, 1936 this society changed its name to the British Columbia Tuberculosis Society. On July 27, 1978 the name was changed to the British Columbia Lung Association.

The British Columbia Camping Association was established by Gertrude Moore in 1940. An affiliate of the Canadian Camping Association, the BCCA embarked on activities to fulfill its constitutional objective of setting camping standards and safeguards. Accreditation services for campsites, counsellor training and directory publication have been primary services of the association, which has worked in conjunction with the United Way and other charitable organizations.

The BC Carpenters' Central America Solidarity Committee was formed by the trade unionists of the BC Provincial Council of Carpenters (the BC Carpenters' Union).

The non-profit Canada-Nicaragua Carpentry Training Centre in Estelé, Nicaragua, sometimes referred to as "the Carpenters' Project," was established in 1985 as a joint effort between the BC Provincial Council of Carpenters and the Carpenters’ Union of Nicaragua.

During the mid-1980s, groups of BC trade unionists travelled to Nicaragua. These trips were hosted by the Sandinista Trade Union Centre (CST), endorsed by the BC Federation of Labour, and arranged by the Trade Union Group of the BC-Nicaragua Solidarity Committee. These trips resulted in reports on the labour situation in Nicaragua titled "Hope Under Siege" and "Surviving the Siege."

This project was done in cooperation with CUSO, an independent international development agency, and was affiliated with "Tools for Peace," a Canadian organisation devoted to maintaining solidarity with and providing material support to the people of Nicaragua during the 1980s.

The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is the provincial reporting centre for reportable diseases. The BCCDC is the provincial public health service providing surveillance, detection, prevention, treatment, policy development, and health promotion programming to promote and protect the health of British Columbians. The BCCDC is a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

BCCDC combines public health practice with research and policy advice. BCCDC provides direct diagnostic and treatment services to people with diseases of public health significance such as tuberculosis and sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is a "non-partisan, autonomous and charitable society" whose mandate is to "preserve, defend, maintain and extend civil liberties and human rights in British Columbia and across Canada." On November 25, 1997, approximately 1,500 protesters came to the University of British Columbia campus to voice their opposition to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit. Protesters were concerned that APEC discussions aimed at liberalizing trade between the participating countries would not reference human rights and social and environmental issues. In particular, the protesters demonstrated against President Jiang Zemin of China and President Suharto of Indonesia. Several anti-APEC organizers, including Jaggi Singh, were detained or arrested in the days leading up to the protest. Following a series of peaceful demonstrations on the morning of November 25, protesters clashed with police in the afternoon. At the Rose Garden plaza, protesters broke through a police barricade and were pepper-sprayed by the police. The protesters then spread out in hopes of being seen by APEC delegates. At one of the roadblocks on N.W. Marine Drive, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Staff Sergeant Hugh Stewart warned protesters that officers would use whatever force necessary if they did not clear the area. Shortly after that, officers moved in to the crowd with pepper spray. Differing versions of events, both before, during, and after the protest, led to the initiation of various legal actions. Serious charges were levelled at the RCMP for their handling of the event and their alleged role in suppressing free speech and other civil liberties.
Allegations of political interference by the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) into the actions of the RCMP were also made. The APEC Inquiry was launched by the RCMP's Public Complaints Commission (PCC) on February 20, 1998, and formal hearings commenced on October 5, 1998. Following additional allegations of renewed political interference, the hearings ended abruptly with the resignation of the Inquiry's Chief Commissioner, Gerald Morin, on December 4, 1998. The second round of hearings under the direction of Ted Hughes began on march 23, 1999, and concluded on June 30, 2000. The PCCs interim report was released on July 31, 2001, and its final report appeared on March 25, 2002. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association, through its president, Kay Stockholder, filed a complaint with the RCMP PCC. Although the BCCLA took no position on the merits of the various protestors views, the Association was the first to call for public hearings into the events at the APEC summit, and, as President of the BCCLA, Stockholder was the complainant before the PCC until replaced in 1998 by incoming president Andrew D. Irvine.

Education Minister Pat McGeer established the Committee on Continuing and Community Education in British Columbia in 1976 to study adult and community education around the province and make recommendations on funding, administration, and programming. Chaired by Ron Faris of the Ministry of Education, it became known as the "Faris Committee." Gordon Selman joined the UBC Department of University Extension in 1954 and served as associate director from 1960 to 1965. After serving two years as executive assistant to University President John B. Macdonald, Selman returned to Extension to serve as director from 1967 to 1974 - he then transferred to the Faculty of Education to teach adult education. In 1976 he served on the Faris Committee.

The British Columbia Parent-Teacher Home and School Federation was founded in Vancouver in 1922 to represent Parent-Teacher Associations. It aimed to "secure the cooperation of parents, teachers and other adults in the education of youth and children." The BC Parent-Teacher Home and School Federation changed its name to BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC) in 1990.

At Canada's Confederation in 1867, the federal government was given authority over the fisheries and set up the Department of Marine and Fisheries. In 1875, the Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries recommended that the Fisheries Act apply to British Columbia.

An Ecological Reserve is an area of Crown land with the most special conservation designation within the British Columbia Protected Areas system. The purpose for designating an ecological reserve is for scientific research, establishing benchmark areas to measure changes in ecosystems, protecting biological diversity, protecting rare and endangered organisms, and preserving unique, unusual or outstanding natural phenomena. In the 1960s and 70s, Canada participated in a decade of research known as the International Biological Program (IBP); this involved describing essential sites on standard international check-sheets. In some cases, check sheets are the only source of information for many ecological reserves. The British Columbia Ecological Reserves Act was passed in 1971; this meant that BC became the first province in Canada to give permanent protected status to ecological reserves. As a result, BC has the world's most comprehensive environmental reserves program. As of 2015, there are 148 ecological reserves in BC.
The University of British Columbia Professor Vladimir Joseph Krajina (1905-1993) advocated for the formation of ecological reserves throughout the 1950s amidst the increase in logging in the province. Krajina had a remarkable life, having emigrated after World War II from Czechoslovakia, where he had been an Intelligence Service leader. During the war, he was captured, served time with his wife in a concentration camp and narrowly missed execution. After the war, Krajina joined the UBC Botany Department, where he taught plant ecology for over twenty years and developed a reputation as a distinguished teacher, botanist, ecologist, and conservationist.
Krajina argued for ecological reserves, emphasizing during debates on the reserve concept, "They [the ecological reserves] serve as genetic banks of paramount importance which accomplish a museum function. Distinctive, large, heterogeneous, natural gene pools of different organisms and especially indigenous trees are an irreplaceable resource." In 1968, in BC, Krajina's work, the Ecological Reserves Committee, was formed to advise selecting potential reserve sites to preserve in British Columbia. On May 4, 1974, the first 29 reserves received protective status by Order-in-Council, a conservation landmark. In 1974, a full-time ecological reserve coordinator was hired, and a volunteer warden program was put into effect in 1980.

British Columbia Electric Railway was a railway and streetcar company operating from 1897 to 1961. A London-based company chaired by Robert M. Horne-Payne and R. Henry Sperling overtook the bankrupt Consolidated Railway Company on April 3, 1897, incorporating it as the British Columbia Electric Railway company. By 1903 B.C. Electric began building its own streetcars, inter-urbans, locomotives, work equipment and freight cars in a shop in New Westminster. Over the following years BC Electric provided increasingly expanding rail and bus transit for passengers and freight across Southern British Columbia. As World War Two came to an end, B.C. Electric implemented a ‘Rails to Rubber’ programme, replacing electric railway streetcars with Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) Streetcars. In 1961 the provincial government took over BC Electric with the railway becoming a division of Crown corporation BC Hydro.

The British Columbia Forecasting Committee was formed by the Academic Board. Its goal was to create post-secondary enrollment forecasts.

The British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association (BCFGA) was founded in 1889 in Vancouver in response to an increase in fruit cultivation in the province during the latter part of the nineteenth century, and a corresponding need for a more coalesced marketing strategy. The first Okanagan-based member of the association was Alfred Postill (1852-1897), who was champion of cooperative fruit marketing. The BCFGA’s first convention was held in Kamloops, BC, in 1910, at the apex of trend in declining BCFGA membership over the years immediately prior, and was convened in an effort to recharge its appeal to fruit growers. Early conventions were concerned with administrative reorganization and stabilization. Over time, the BCFGA was instrumental in integrating the marketing of Okanagan fruit into a complex North American supply chain.

The Association of BC Grape Growers (ABCGG) was established on March 10, 1961. With permission of the provincial government, in 1970, the Association formed the BC Grape Growers Marketing Board (BCGGMB). The scope of the ABCGG and the BCGGMB has always been the support of viticulture; however, over time and through various administrative shifts, its focus has changed from table grapes to wine grapes.

The Board’s original mandate was to negotiate sales deals for grape growers by creating standard prices per ton by variety of grape each year. This was accomplished through the annual issuance of executive orders of the Board, with which member grape growers were to comply.

Over time, the organization has been composed of various committees such as the Viticulture Committee, which managed trials and research projects, most notably the Becker Project (1977-1985). The Becker Project experimented with plantings of vitis vinifera in the Okanagan Valley and attempted to improve the varietal’s hardiness in this climate. Key members of the Viticulture Committee included John Vielvoye, who was separate from the Association, but sat on the committee as a function of his work with the BC Ministry of Agriculture, and Lyall Denby representing the Summerland Research Station (Agriculture Canada).

Other activities included educational outreach to grape growers and advocacy for crop insurance.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Board played a role in the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in its application to BC grapes. The implementation of NAFTA represented a key turning point for the organization in the Agreement’s influence over financing rules for the industry. As an outcome of NAFTA, events such as the Pull Out Program and the Replant Program took place under the provincial Social Credit government. By 1995, reference price had been discontinued. From that point, departing from the elimination of marketing negotiation space under NAFTA, the BC Grape Marketing Board dissolved.

The organization then experienced uncertainty in its mandate: service to wine, or grapes? This uncertainty coincided with the advent of the Farm Gate Retail model and the formation of BC Wine in the early 1990s. In 1997, some among the former Board who opposed a shift to wine called a meeting and agreed to continue, but have the association be composed only of independent growers, excluding licensed wineries. The organization was then renamed the BC Independent Grapegrowers’ Association.

This was short-lived in the face of opposition from wineries, who also wanted to participate in the research and education supported by the Association. A change in bylaws in the early 2004 saw licensed wineries readmitted, and the organization renamed again to the British Columbia Grapegrowers’ Association (BCGA), under which name it still operates.
As of 2023, the BCGA advances the objectives of supporting grape growers in BC, educating grape growers, building relationships with external stakeholder, and maintaining stable, profitable markets for BC grapes and wine. It has representation on the BC Wine Grape Council, Wine Growers BC, and the Interior Horticultural Sector Group (BC Agriculture Council).

The British Columbia Historical Association was established in 1922 to promote the preservation and documentation of the province's history. The Association held pioneer reunions, erected tablets to commemorate historic sites and published the British Columbia Historical Quarterly from 1937 to 1958. The Association had branches in locations throughout the province.

The History of Nursing group grew out of a concern with the preservation of the provincial nursing heritage. Prior to the formation of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group, the History of Nursing Interest Group met for approximately a year. This group had been part of an RNABC History of Nursing Advisory Committee, which was an ad hoc committee of the RNABC Board. This committee had been formed in 1988 to determine what should be done with a history project that had been started for the RNABC’s 75th anniversary in 1983. The Committee had also become concerned about oral history tapes that the RNABC had begun to collect.

The first meeting of the B.C. History of Nursing Professional Practice Group of the RNABC was held May 3, 1990. Their objectives are to provide a forum through which those interested in the history of nursing in British Columbia can exchange ideas and information; to encourage interest in the history of nursing in British Columbia; to promote study and research in the history of nursing in British Columbia; to encourage the preservation of materials related to the history of nursing and the lives of individual nurses; to encourage the teaching of nursing history in educational programs; and to disseminate information about the RNABC to its members. It is open to all nurses and other persons with an interest in the history of nursing who are eligible for membership and have paid required fees.

The stated goal is “to have a provincial history of nursing center in the Lower Mainland that is linked online with other agencies and/or schools of nursing in the province holding nursing artifacts or other archival materials”. Nurses, it was argued, must understand the challenges and opportunities of the past in order to prepare direction for the future. Efforts were made to incorporate nursing history into the curricula of nursing schools and faculties.

The administrative activities of the Group are carried out by an elected Executive Committee composed of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Recorder, and Committee Chairs. Positions carry two year terms. The first President, Beverly Du Gas (1990-1993) was followed by Helen Shore (1992-1994), Ethel Warbinek (1994-1998), Helen Shore (1998-2000) Sheila Zerr (2000-2003) Lois Blais (2003-2006), and Ethel Warbinek (2006-2008). When the RNABC changed its status and name to become the College of Registered Nurses of B.C., the History of Nursing group became the B.C. History of Nursing Society in 2008.

The BC Hydro and Power Authority is a Crown corporation responsible for generating, purchasing, distributing and selling electricity.

The British Columbia Indian Arts and Welfare Society was formally established in 1951 by Alice Ravenhill. The primary objectives of the society were to promote the welfare, creative talent, and true place in the social organization of the country of the Indian people, with particular attention to the needs of young native people. Previous to this, Ravenhill was instrumental in establishing the Society for the Furtherance of B.C. Indian Arts and Craft, in 1940, which was formally constituted in 1942. During the late 1940s, the society began to use informally the name, B.C. Indian Arts and Welfare Society. In 1973, the Society again changed its name to the British Columbia Indian Arts Society.

The British Columbia Research Council was incorporated in 1944. Its purpose was to provide facilities to support technological research and industrial development in BC.