British Columbia Government Information Centre
This page contains direct links to all provincial government
ministries, the Legislative Assembly, Crown corporations and
selected other provincial government agencies, operations and
initiatives. The BC Government Home Page (next link) is the
authoritative and most comprehensive source for provincial government
information.
Listed in alphabetical order except for the BC Government Home Page
on the World-Wide Web.
- BC Government Home Page (Use this
if
uncertain how to find info)
- BC Connects will take you to e-government services
NOTE: As a result of a provincial government
reorganization effective June 5, 2001, all links are being reviewed and
updated, July-August 2001.
- Agricultural Workforce Policy Board (Joint BC/Canada/private sector)
- BC Ambulance
Service
- BC Archives
- BC Arts Council
- BC Assessment
Authority
- BC Buildings Corporation
(BCBC)
- BC Children's
Commission
- BC
Connects
- BC Council on Admissions and
Transfer (BCCAT Online) coordinates transferability of educational
credits earned by students at BC's post-secondary institutions
- BC Farm Practices
Board
- BC Ferry Corporation
- BC Festival of the
Arts Society manages an annual festival; its board members
are appointed by the BC Government
- BC Financial Institutions Commission
- BC Games Society manages an
annual amateur sports events; its board members are appointed by the BC
Government
- BC Gaming Commission
manages charitable gaming
- BC Government
Directory.
Look up telephone numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses for employees and
offices.
- BC Government Employees' Union is
not a government body, but represents unionized public service
employees
- BC Health Care Risk Management
Society is supported by BC Government funding and manages financial
liability issues for public health care services.
- BC Heritage
Trust funds heritage-related programs, including the annual Heritage
Week
- BC Homeowner Protection Office (HPO)
- BC Housing is a Crown agency
which offers housing
assistance to low- and moderate-income households
- BC Human Rights Commission
- BC Hydro and Power Authority
- BC Information and Privacy Commissioner
- BC Information, Science and
Technology Agency. Agency no longer exists effective June 5, 2001.
Functions transferred to the new Ministry of Management Services.
- BC Investment Management
Corporation
- BC Job Protection
Commission
- BC Law Institute
- BC Legislative Assembly --
Bills, Proceedings, Hansard Debates, etc.
- BC Lieutenant-Governor and
Government House
- BC Liquor Stores (BC
Liquor Distribution Branch)
- BC Lottery Corporation
- BC Marketing
Board
- BC Minister Responsible for
Youth (Youth Options BC)
BC Ministries established, reorganized or renamed, June 5, 2001
- BC Ministry of Advanced
Education
- BC Ministry of Agriculture, Food
and Fisheries
- BC
Ministry of Attorney General
- BC Ministry of Children and
Family Development
- BC Ministry of Community,
Aboriginal and Women's Services
- BC Ministry of Competition,
Science and Enterprise
- BC Ministry of Education
- BC Ministry of Energy and Mines
- BC Ministry of Finance
- BC Ministry of Forests
- BC Ministry of Health
Planning
- BC Ministry of Health
Services
- BC Ministry of Human
Resources
- BC Ministry of Management
Services
- BC Ministry of Provincial
Revenue
- BC
Ministry of Public Safety and
Solicitor General
- BC Ministry of Skills Development
and Labour
- BC Ministry of Sustainable
Resource Management
- BC Ministry of
Transportation
- BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air
Protection
- BC Office of the
Auditor General
- BC Office of the Ombudsman
- BC Office of the Police Complaint
Commissioner
- BC Parks
- BC Parliament Buildings, 1898-1998
- BC Pavilion
Corporation
- BC Purchasing Commission
(Bid online for government contracts and work)
- BC Racing
Commission regulates horse racing
- BC Rail
- BC Securities Commission
- BC Stats
- BC Student
Financial Aid (Ministry of Advanced Education)
- BC Superior Courts
- BC
Task Force on Electricity Market Reform
- BC Transit
- BC Transportation Financing
Authority
- BC 2000 (Two Thousand):
Marking the Millennium
- BC Unclaimed
Property Web Site (Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations)
- BC Utilities Commission (Official
Web site)
- BC Utilities Commission
(Original Web site hosted by the Victoria Telecommunity Network)
- BC Vital Statistics Agency
- BC-Alcan Northern Development
Fund is managed by the Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society
- Canada/BC Business Service Centre
(Vancouver)
- Centre for Education
Information
- Columbia Basin Trust is a Crown
corporation based in Castlegar
- Columbia Power Corporation
(Crown Corporation)
- Community Learning Network (Open School, Open Learning Agency)
- Corporate and
Personal Properties Registry (Ministry of Finance)
- Elections BC
- Emergency Social Services
provides disaster response services delivered by local volunteers who
are trained through programs offered by ESS
- Employment Standards
Tribunal
- Enquiry BC
operates a call centre to put you in touch with government offices and
information. Toll free number 1-800-663-7867 (outside the Lower
Mainland); 387-6121 (Greater Victoria); 660-2421 (Lower Mainland);
604-660-2421 (outside BC).
- Environmental Appeal Board
- Environmental Assessment Office
- Equal Opportunity
Secretariat
- Farm Business Management Information
for BC (FBMInet-BC) is a federal-provincial initiative
- Fast
Track: A Guide to the Ministry of Human Resources is only
available in online form and describes the BC Benefits program and other
forms of financial assistance and special services offered by the
ministry
- First Peoples' Cultural
Foundation was established as a BC Government program in 1990
- First Peoples'
Heritage, Language and Culture Council was established in 1990 to
administer funding provided by the BC Government
- Fisheries Renewal
BC
- Forest Appeals Commission
- Forest Practices Board
- Forest Productivity
Council of BC
- Forest Renewal
BC
- Four Corners Community
Savings is a BC Crown
Corporation
serving the residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood
- Freedom of
Information and Protection of Privacy (Corporate Privacy and
Information Access Branch, Ministry of Management Services)
- Geographic Data BC (Ministry
of Sustainable Resource Management)
- Government Agents
of BC
- Government Consulting
Group provides management consulting services across
the BC government
- Hansard (BC
Legislative
Assembly Debates: Draft and Final)
- Industry Training and
Apprenticeship Commission (ITAC)
- Insurance Corporation of BC
- Intergovernmental Relations
Secretariat
- Labour Relations Board
- LandData BC sells digital
and paper map, air photos, survey data and other products
- Land Title Offices
- Motor Carrier
Commission
- Nisga’a
Treaty Current Status (Treaty Negotiations Office, Ministry of
Attorney General)
- Northern Development
Commission
- Office for Disability
Issues
- Office for
Seniors
- Office of the Fire
Commissioner
- Oil and Gas Commission
- OneStop Business Registration
(Western Economic Diversification Canada and BC Ministry of Competition,
Science and Enterprise)
- Open
Learning Agency
- Open
School (Operated by the Open Learning Agency for K-12 students and
their teachers in BC and elsewhere)
- Organized Crime Agency of BC
- Pacific National Exhibition
(PNE)
- Post-secondary Application Service of
BC (PASBC) allows potential students to apply online to
post-secondary institutions in BC
- Private Post Secondary Education
Commission of BC (PPSEC)
- Provincial Capital Commission
operates the Crystal Garden and St. Ann's Academy in Victoria
- Provincial Emergency Program
(PEP)
- Provincial Learning Network
- Public Sector Employer's
Council
- Public Service Appeal Board
- Public Service Employee
Relations
Commission (PSERC)
- Queen's Printer (BC Ministry of
Finance)
- Rapid Transit Project 2000
Ltd. (RTP 2000) is a Crown-owned company formed to build the SkyTrain
Millennium Line
- Real Estate Council of
BC
- Royal BC
Museum
- Science Council of BC
- SpanBC (Information Technology
Services Division, Ministry of Management Services) is the
high-speed provincial government data network.
- Streamlining
Initiative: Cutting Red Tape
- Tourism BC (HelloBC)
- Treaty Negotiations
Office,
Ministry of Attorney General (formerly the Ministry of Aboriginal
Affairs)
- Workers' Compensation Board of BC (WCB)
- Workers' Compensation Review Board of
BC
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