Records of the British Columbia Commission of Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (schedule 170439)

Publication date: July 9, 2019

Records of the British Columbia Commission of Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (“the Commission”) are records in any form created or received by the Commission in carrying out its mandate.  

In 2016, the Government of Canada established the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (“the federal Commission”). Equivalent commissions of inquiry were established by all the provinces and territories, including British Columbia per the Public Inquiry Act (S.B.C. 2007, c. 9), by Order in Council 802.

This special schedule takes precedence over the special schedule 112907 (Commission of Inquiry Records) for the records of the British Columbia Commission. By Order in Council PC 2016-0736, the Office of the Privy Council of Canada (PCO) will receive the records of the federal Commission. On approval of this information schedule, the records of the British Columbia Commission that are deposited with the Attorney General for British Columbia will be transferred to PCO so as to create a single repository which supports the national character of the inquiry and protects the integrity of the records. The Commission’s records, once in the care and control of the PCO, will be subject to a records disposition authority, which requires that those records of archival value be transferred to the custody and care of the Library and Archives of Canada.

Records Lifecycle

Phase A SA FD
Retention NA NA OD

NA: The inquiry has concluded.

OD: Records of the British Columbia Commission will be transferred to the Clerk of the Privy Council of Canada, where they will be subject to a records disposition authority under the Library and Archives of Canada Act (S.C. 2004, c. 11).

Approved: 2019-09-18

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