The British Columbia Library Association was formed in 1911. It is a non-profit, independent, voluntary association with more than 800 members. The Association's vision is to lead the library community in advocacy, professional development, and support of intellectual freedom.

Founded in 1907, the British Columbia Loggers Association’s main objective was to represent the best interests and welfare of loggers in British Columbia. Based in the city of Vancouver, the association’s was geared towards considering ways and means for the betterment of the condition and the promotion of the loggers’ business in the province. The association was also involved in several economic initiatives in the logging industry. It aimed to regulate the output of Forest Production to conform to the demands and requirements of manufacturers, to secure a uniform schedule of all prices for Forest Products, and promote the sale of wood products and discourage the use of substitutes. The B.C. Loggers association was also involved in the devising ways and means to achieving uniformity in the classification and scale of spar, piles, bolts and timber.
The B.C. Loggers Association also identified key committees that were essential to ensure that the association would meet its core objectives and was able to form its activities. These included: a finance committee, legislative committee, price committee, labour committee, booming and towing committee, social committee, publicity committee, membership committee, and scaling and grading committee
In 1960, the B.C. Loggers Association became on of five organizations operating under the Council of Forest Industries. In 1969 the association officially ceased to exist as its functions were amalgamated into a division of COFI.
Sources:
Hak, George. “British Columbia Loggers and Lumber Workers Industrial Union, 1919-1922.” Labour / Le Travail 23 (Spring 1989): 67-90.

Founded in 1900 and formally registered under the name British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Manufacturers Limited in 1907, the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association (BCLMA) main objective was to protect the trade of different businesses and public organizations, to promote the lumber and shingle trade, to gather and publish information of interest to the forest industry, establish standards for grading and weighing and manufacturing lumber.
BCLMA was divided into a number of branches, which reflected the organizations main activities. These include: the Shingle Branch and Lumber Branch, Sash and Door Branch, and Box Branch. The affairs of the organization were overseen by the Board of Director’s with the Secretary-Treasurer responsible for the financial and record-keeping functions of the body.
The organization changed its name in 1936 to the British Columbia Lumber and Shingle Association. At this time, the organization added trade extension, research, the promotion of favourable legislation and safety, and advertising to its activities. The organization also conducted educational classes for member company employees.
In 1947 the organization changed its name back to the British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association and in 1949 amalgamated with Western Lumber Manufacturers Association.
In 1960 BCLMA became a member of the newly formed Council of Forest Industries of British Columbia. At this point some of the functions of the BCLMA were gradually taken over by COFI. In 1966 BCLMA’s Grading and Education Department merged to form the Quality Control Department. BCLMA amalgamated with COFI and four other associations in 1966, however, it continued to hold annual meetings for lumber manufacturers until 1982 when it was officially dissolved.

Provincial legislation passed in November 1973 gave rise to the British Columbia Medical Centre (BCMC). The legislation established a network of hospitals and related health facilities to provide patient care services, health science teaching, and related medical research. BCMC integrated the resources of numerous institutions, including Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Health Science Centre, G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Children's Hospital, B.C. Cancer Institute, St. Paul's Hospital, and Shaughnessy Hospital. The creation of BCMC would have involved a massive expansion of the Shaughnessy Hospital, which generated a great deal of public controversy. As a result, the provincial government disbanded BCMC in 1976 in light of the high cost.

In 1979, the British Columbia Member of the Legislative Assembly Project employed quantitative analysis to prepare a collective biography of the members (MLA's) of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-Third Legislatures.

The British Columbia Operating Room Nursing Group (BCORNG) was established on May 5, 1966 to promote the development of standards and policies, resources, and research in operating room care, as well as to advocate for the educational needs for OR nurses through conferences, workshops, and community lectures. The first BCORNG Provincial Executive (1966-68) included Joan Flower (President), Anita Williams (Secretary), Corinne McGibbon (Treasurer), and Ellen Schrodt (Vice-President).

The BCORNG has operated as a professional practice group for over forty years under the auspices of the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (RNABC), subsequently CRNABC. The BCORNG is administered by an executive board that is composed of the President, the President-elect, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer. Officers are nominated by the Nominating Chairperson, who selects two committee members to provide a list of candidates for consideration at the Biennial General Business meeting.

To better serve the needs of a diverse membership, the first BCORNG Provincial Executive created regional divisions: Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Fraser Valley, East Kootenay, West Kootenay, Kamloops-Okanagan, Northwestern and the Northern Interior. Regional executives are responsible for promoting the highest quality of perioperative nursing care to patients, as well as promoting and facilitating educational opportunities for operating room nurses.

The BCORNG has over 600 members. In 1994, the categories of membership were expanded to include active, corresponding, associate and retired nurses. Annual meetings are held, with every second one in conjunction with the Biennial Institute Conference. This conference is known for the “cutting of the ribbon” ceremony that opens the exhibit displays. The BCORNG distributes its quarterly newsletter, News and Views, three times a year to its members, and also supports standing committees and task forces in the areas of membership, education, publications, research, and standards.

In 2009, the British Columbia Operating Room Nurses Group (BCORNG) incorporated as a non-profit association under the Society Act, and the name was changed to the Perioperative Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia (PRNABC). In addition, a new logo was selected by the membership. Much of the transformation was guided by strategic planning that the executive and board embarked upon for the first time in 2008, which incorporated results from a membership survey. The executive are now known as Directors, with the Board continuing to be made up of the directors and two representatives from each of the eight provincial regions.

British Columbia Packers Limited was created in 1928, following a series of amalgamations in the North American fish packing industry that had begun in the late 19th century. These amalgamations had included, in 1902, the creation of the British Columbia Packers Association of New Jersey by a group of American and Canadian investors, and their subsequent purchase of forty-two canneries and two cold storage plants. Led by Canadian businessmen Aemilius Jarvis of Toronto and Henry Doyle of Vancouver, it was the first successful attempt to amalgamate the canneries of the Fraser River. In 1910, to avoid the payment of New Jersey corporate tax, the company was registered in British Columbia through an act of the provincial legislature. In 1914, the principals of British Columbia Packers Association incorporated a new company under charter of the Dominion of Canada. Initially a holding company, in 1921 the British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company Limited became the operating company for the assets of British Columbia Packers Association.

In 1928, having undergone a major expansion of its operations through the acquisition of Wallace Fisheries Limited, British Columbia Fishing and Packing merged with Gosse Packing Company Limited to create British Columbia Packers Limited. In 1934, all of the subsidiary companies holding the assets controlled and operated by British Columbia Packers Limited were liquidated, and the assets transferred to the latter.

The company evolved into a horizontally and vertically integrated entity that featured a world-wide marketing and distribution network. At the peak of its growth, British Columbia Packers controlled assets by direct ownership or through wholly-owned subsidiary companies that included fishing stations, fish and fruit canneries, fresh fish branches, fish-curing establishments, cold storage plants, reduction plants, food testing laboratories, whaling stations, general stores, and shipyards. These included, at various times, the following:

Operational Sites in British Columbia:
Alert Bay Cannery
Bella Bella Cannery
Bella Coola Cannery (fishing station)
Boswell Cannery (fishing station)
Brunswick Cannery (fishing station)
Celtic Shipyards
Claxton Cannery
Currie McWilliams Cannery
Delta Plant
Ecoole Reduction Plant
Hecate Reduction Plant
Imperial Cannery
Imperial Plant (and fishing stations)
Kildonan Cannery
Kimsquit Cannery (fishing station)
Klemtu
Ladner Cannery
Lowe Inlet Cannery (fishing station)
Mill Bay Cannery (store)
Namu Cannery (reduction plant)
New Westminster Cannery
Pacofi Cannery (reduction plant)
Paramount Cannery
Port Edward Cannery
Quathiaski Plant
Richmond Plant
Saanich Cannery
St. Mungo Cannery
Seal Cove Plant
Shannon Bay Cannery
Sunnyside Cannery
Terra Nova Cannery
Victoria Cold Storage Plant
Wadham’s (cannery, general store)

Related Companies:
Allied Pacfic Processors
Bay Point Oyster Farms (U.S.A)
Brunswick Development Corporation Limited
Canadian Fish and Cold Storage Company Limited
Canadian Packing Company Limited
Coast Oyster Company (U.S.A.)
Coast Oyster Company of California (U.S.A.)
Connors Bros. Limited
Edmunds and Walker Limited
Humboldt Oyster Company (U.S.A.)
Mar Seafoods (Fishing Company Incorporated)
McCallum Sales Limited
Nelbro Holding Company (U.S.A.)
Nelbro Packing Company (U.S.A.)
Nelson Brothers Fisheries Limited (Queensborough Shipyard)
North American Testing Limited
Port Edward Marine Services Limited
Queen Charlotte Canners Limited
Rupert Fish Company Incorporated (U.S.A.)
Rupert’s Certi-Fresh Foods, Incorporated (U.S.A.)
Rupert’s International Sales Corporation (U.S.A.)
Sea Breeze, Incorporated (U.S.A.)
J.H. Todd and Sons Limited
Western Canada Whaling Company Limited
Willapa Oyster Farms (U.S.A.)

Much of British Columbia Packers expansion outside of British Columbia took place after the Second World War. It began to acquire sales offices and production facilities in the United States in the late 1940’s, and this continued in the following decade. For example, the company acquired Freeman’s Certi-Fresh Foods of Los Angeles, California, in 1954, and Coast Oyster Company, with assets in California and Washington, in 1956. In 1957, it acquired interests in fishing operations in Peru. In 1967, British Columbia Packers began a joint venture with Nelson Brothers Fisheries Limited in herring meal and oil production at Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland. In the late 1970’s, British Columbia Packers acquired a 30 percent interest in Mar Fishing Company, Inc., which produced tuna out of a plant in Mindanao, Philippines.

In 1968, R.I. Nelson of Nelson Brothers Fisheries Limited became President and Chief Executive Officer of British Columbia Packers, marking the integration of this company and British Columbia Packers Limited. Also during this decade, British Columbia Packers was itself acquired by the Weston group of companies.

British Columbia Packers appears to have struggled in the early 1980’s, and with the fishing industry as a whole, began a period of change and restructuring. Its operations were dissolved in 1996 and 1997 through merger with Canadian Fisheries Company Limited; a successor company, BCPL Limited, owned by George Weston Limited, undertook the disposition of British Columbia Packers real property and other assets. (The bulk of British Columbia Packers executive and legal records have apparently been transferred to George Weston Limited, and did not form part of Accession 2001-34.)

British Columbia Packers appears to have been administered out of head offices in Vancouver until 1968, and thereafter in Steveston. At the company’s peak of size and scope in the late 1970’s, eight Vice-Presidents were responsible for the following functional or operational designations: finance, planning, marketing, Pacific operations, production/British Columbia operations, Philippine operations, United States operations, and industrial relations.

The chief executive officers of British Columbia Packers and its immediate predecessors were as follows:
British Columbia Packers’ Association (of New Jersey)
Alexander Ewen, President, 1902-1907
William Henry Barker, President, 1907-1914
British Columbia Fishing and Packing Company Limited
William Henry Barker, President, 1914-1926
Aemilius Jarvis, President, 1926-1928
British Columbia Packers Limited
Aemilius Jarvis, President, 1928-1930; Chairman, 1930-1932
Stanley Burke, President, 1930-1933
H.R. Macmillan, President, 1933-1946; Chairman, 1946-1956
J.M. Buchanan, President, 1946-1956, 1958-1964; Chairman, 1956-1958
R.E. Walker, President, 1956-1958
J.N. Hyland, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1964-1967
K.F. Fraser, President, 1964-1967
R.I. Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer, 1969-1974; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1975-
G.E. Creber, Chairman, 1969-
J.B. Buchanan, President and Chief Operating Officer, 1979-1982 (Vice-Chairman 1983-
Donald A. McLean, President, 1983-

The British Columbia Provincial Police (BCPP) force was established in 1858 in New Westminster, then the capital of the mainland colony. The force was initially led by a lone constable, Mr. Chartres Brew from Ireland. In 1866 the police force on Vancouver Island was combined with the police force on the mainland, as the two colonies were united. The force existed through the first half of the 20th century before amalgamating with the RCMP in 1950.

A provincial police force was established in 1858 and later, when the province joined Confederation in 1871, the BC police reported to the Attorney-General. The constables were under the direction of the government agent of the district who reported to the Superintendent. The BC Provincial Police were taken over by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in August, 1950.

The Association was originally titled the B.C. Music Teachers' Federation was founded in 1932. The British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association (BCRMTA) is the representative body of the private music teacher's profession in British Columbia. With associations from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, it founded the Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (later called the CFMTA) in 1935. In 1947 the organization received a provincial legislative charter. The bylaws of the Association are set up according to Section 10 of "An Act Respecting British Columbia Registered Music Teachers' Association."

For the period covered by the records (1917-1922). W. D. Burdis was secretary.

The British Columbia Teachers' Federation was established in 1917. It is a union that represents public school teachers in the province.

The British Columbia Union Catalogue (BCUC) was a province-wide bibliographic database of library collections representing both post-secondary and public libraries. First proposed in a series of reports in the early 1970s, it was established in 1977 and funded by the B.C. Ministry of Education. Participating libraries entered their catalogue records into a machine-readable database to generate local catalogues and produce a single union catalogue of all their collections. It was then distributed throughout the province so that users could locate materials anywhere in the province and obtain them through interlibrary loans. BCUC initially included the library collections at UBC, SFU, and UVic and then expanded to local college libraries. Richmond Public Library was the first public library to join the network in 1978. Unfortunately, provincial funding was discontinued in 1983 before the project was completed.

The British Columbia Wine Grape Council (BCWGC) was approved through a plebiscite of BC Mainland grape growers in 2006,. This led to the creation of the Council under the Farming & Fisheries Act of British Columbia. The BCWGC was given the authority to collect levies on all grapes grown or purchased in Mainland British Columbia, and the funds are used primarily for the purpose of research and development, as well as educational projects. The BCWGC also deals with other organizations regarding water, pest, land, and air issues. Their mandate is to coordinate and fund research on enology and viticulture to help British Columbia’s wine industry, to represent growers, as well as to develop a strong wine grape industry to increase the economic and environmental benefits to British Columbia.

The British Columbia Women’s Institute (BCWI) was founded in 1909. This founding was initiated by Laura Rose, who was invited by the BC Provincial Government to extend her Women's Institute organizing activities in Alberta and Ontario to British Columbia. The objective of organizing Women's Institutes in BC was to support settler women in household and family management, food production and preservation, and other farming and homestead activities.

Following an initial survey tour, Rose organized the first fifteen BC Women's Institutes: Gordon Heard, Lake Hill, Sooke and Otter, Metchosin, Tynehead, Coquitlam, Matsqui, Chilliwack, Agassiz, Summerland, Salmon Arm, Nakusp, Kaslo and District, Nelson, and Cranbrook. Geographical coverage expanded and in 1911, branches were organized into four districts: Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Okanagan, and Kootenay. These aggregated districts were overseen by an Advisory Board appointed by the BC Department of Agriculture. At the Board's inaugural meeting, August 14-15, 1911, the BCWI motto "For Home and Country" was adopted.

Between 1919 and 1929, achievements included the establishment of the British Columbia Crippled Children's Hospital, the Queen Alexandra Solarium, and the Othoa Scott Fund. At mid-century, the BCWI influenced the provincial government to name the Dogwood as the official provincial emblem. In the decades to follow, efforts focused on education, fundraising, and activism relating to agricultural sustainability and child welfare.

As of 2023, the BCWI is headquartered in Barriere, BC. The BCWI, along with other provincial Women’s Institute organizations, are connected to the national organization, the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada (FWIC).

The British Columbia Women's Studies Association was formally established on February 2, 1975. A formal meeting was held at a Vancouver Community College, Langara. A primary goal of the BCWSA was the establishment of a Women's Research Centre, "independent of any particular educational institution and available for all interested women to utilize."

Dean Dorothy Mawdsley established Buttercup Enterprises Ltd. in 1941 and its headquarters was in Mawdsley's office.This agency aimed to find female students babysitting work to aid in the war effort and make students some money. Students were paid 0.50c up to midnight and 0.25c after that. A rival agency was set up by two male students in early 1942 called Buttercup Enterprises (Male) Incorporated. This was setup as an exclusively male operation.