Welcome!
This site provides resources and tools to help you along your research journey. Start by clicking the bottons below to access the Research Guide, Resources List and List of Legislation. Scroll down the page or use the green navigation menu to learn more about the the tools you’ll need and other helpful resources. As always, your UVic Law Librarians are here to help guide you through this research process.
This guide offers some important context and guidance that will help you with your research shift and ensure that everyone is on the same page throughout the day.
This Google Drive contains folders on each of the four research topics.
This document lists the current and historical legislation and regulations pertinent to your research.
This document lists resources (websites, government reports, journals, indexes etc.) that you will find useful when researching legislative and regulatory changes in BC.
Researching Legislation in BC
Written by UVic Law Library’s Associate Universtiy Librarian Kim Nayyer, this chapter from The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis provides an overview of the law-making process in BC as well as instruction and examples on how to conduct BC legislative research. During your research, you may find this chapter helpful if you need guidance on:
- Locating Revised and Consolidated BC Statutes
- Locating Amendments and Updating Statutes
- Locating Prior Versions of Statutes
- Backdating a Statute
- Locating Regulations
- Updating BC Regulations
Databases
Quickscribe
Once you enter Quickscribe, click the LOGIN button at the top right to access the full site. No password required.
Benefits of Quickscribe:
- Find relevant Hansard references using the ‘Select Hansard (Debates)’ feature
- Easy access to Orders-in-Council from 2000 to present
- Collapses the Table of Legislative Changes editions into one convenient list
- Point-in-time information for regulation amanendments
- Create a personalized account to make personal bookmarks, custom alerts, annotations, and access sharing features
The short video tutorials on the right will ensure you’re using Quickscribe to its full potential.
- Using Hansard on QS (3 min)
- QS 2.0 Overview (10 min)
- Using The New Search Features on QS (10 min)
- Using Historical Tools on QS (10 min)
HeinOnline
In addition to journal articles, HeinOnline provides access to BC Annual Statutes from 1871, and consolidations and revisions from 1872.
BCLaws
Provides free access to current and historical BC statutes, regulations, bills (first and third reading), orders-in-council, and BC Gazette. Also includes Tables of Legislative Changes and Regulation Bulletins and Indexes.
LibGuides
Government Publications – BC
This guide is designed to help get you started with your library research for information and publications from the Government of British Columbia.
The tabs in this guide will help you find books, articles, and more. Locate specific the Departments and Agencies using the A-Z list.
Recovering “Lost” Law in Canada
This guide is designed to help get you started with your library research for sources of information that should provide information about social conditions and government policies in place at the time of a historic BC court case. Access points for print and digital versions of historical sources are included in this guide.
Secondary Sources
This list of secondary sources includes books and ebooks relevant to your research in Mining Law. These will be available to you on book trucks during the day.
- Alfred B. Morine, Mining law of Canada (Toronto: Canada Law Book Co’y Ltd., 1909).
- Barry Barton, Canadian law of mining (Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1993).
- Barry Barton, Reference guide to mining legislation in Canada, 2nd ed (Calgary: Canadian Institute of Resources Law, 1988).
- British Columbia, Commission of Inquiry into Compensation for the Taking of Resource Interests, Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Compensation for the Taking of Resource Interests (Vancouver: The Commission, 1992).
- Geoffrey W. Taylor, Mining: The history of mining in British Columbia (Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1978).
- Gilbert Wyman, Public land and mining laws of Alaska, the Northwest Territory, and the province of British Columbia (Fruitvale, California: G. Wyman, 1898).
- Mathew S. Hedley, Mining in British Columbia, vol 1 (Victoria: Ministry of Mines and Petroleum Resources, 1975-80).
- Michael J. Prince & G. Bruce Doern, The origins of public enterprise in the Canadian mineral sector (Kingston: Queen’s University, Centre for Resource Studies, 1985).
- Robert Edgar Cail, Land, man, and the law : the disposal of crown lands in British Columbia, 1871-1913 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1974)
- William David McPherson, The law mines in Canada (Toronto: Carswell, 1898). <http://ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/login?url=http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/cihm_06458>
- William Joseph Trimble, The mining advance into the inland empire (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1986).
- William Wilson, A mining case of importance (Victoria: “The Colonist” Steam Printing House, 1889). <http://ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/login?url=http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/cihm_16487>
Website created by the Diana M. Priestly Law Library
