Islands Trust public-record archive

Every Islands Trust record we hold, with its original source URL, local storage and checksum status, extracted text, and the entity mentions found in it. Built so a claim can be checked against the document it came from.

7,233 records, spanning 1972 to 2026; 6,751 carry extracted text and are full-text searchable. 103 have an open mirror or extraction failure.

The broken public-record ledger — Trust documents whose own links no longer resolve.

By island

Which local trust area the Trust filed the record against.

Islands Trust Area — 2,390 records. Records of the Islands Trust as a whole — Trust Council, Executive Committee, and the bodies that sit above every local trust committee.
Salt Spring Island — 641 records. The largest local trust area, and the one whose requisition dominates the Trust's budget.
Gabriola Island — 576 records. Gabriola Island Local Trust Area records.
North Pender Island — 500 records. North Pender Island Local Trust Area records, including its Housing Action Plan.
Galiano Island — 466 records. Galiano Island Local Trust Area records, including the forest-zone litigation.
Gambier Island — 387 records. Gambier Island Local Trust Area records, covering Gambier and its associated islands.
Hornby Island — 364 records. Hornby Island Local Trust Area records.
Denman Island — 354 records. Denman Island Local Trust Area records, including the 2008–09 Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw adoption file.
Mayne Island — 312 records. Mayne Island Local Trust Area records.
Thetis Island — 287 records. Thetis Island Local Trust Area records.
South Pender Island — 277 records. South Pender Island Local Trust Area records.
Lasqueti Island — 258 records. Lasqueti Island Local Trust Area records.
Saturna Island — 210 records. Saturna Island Local Trust Area records.
Ballenas-Winchelsea — 55 records. The Ballenas-Winchelsea Local Trust Area, which has no permanent residents.
Bowen Island Municipality — 38 records. Bowen Island incorporated as an island municipality in 1999 and sits inside the Trust Area on different terms.
Southern Islands — 11 records. Records filed against the Trust's southern islands grouping.
Northern Islands — 4 records. Records filed against the Trust's northern islands grouping.
Trust-wide — 1 records. Records that apply across the whole Trust Area.

By document type

The Trust's own classification, as published in its document index.

Meeting Documents — 5,047 records. Agendas, minutes, addenda and agenda packages — the largest class of record the Trust publishes.
Reports & Publications — 513 records. Staff reports, consultant studies and published research.
News & Advocacy — 469 records. News releases and advocacy correspondence issued by the Trust.
Maps — 300 records. Zoning schedules, sensitive-ecosystem mapping, and other cartographic records.
Adopted Bylaws — 281 records. Bylaws in force, including official community plans and land use bylaws.
Policies — 164 records. Trust Council policies and the policy manual.
Miscellaneous — 100 records. Records the Trust's own index does not classify further.
Agreements — 83 records. Protocol agreements and memoranda with other governments and agencies.
Applications, Forms & Guides — 78 records. Application guides and forms for permits, variances and rezonings.
Administrative — 46 records. Administrative records, including fees and procedure bylaws.

By topic

These groupings are ours, not the Trust's. Membership is decided by matching the text of each document, so a record can appear under several topics and the match is sometimes loose. Each topic page repeats this caution and shows the terms used.

Governance & budget — 5,325 records. Trust Council, the Executive Committee, budgets, requisitions and governance reviews.
First Nations & reconciliation — 4,688 records. Referrals to and correspondence with First Nations, treaty processes and reconciliation policy.
Marine & foreshore — 3,883 records. Records touching the water: marine zoning, foreshore, docks and moorage, shoreline mapping and the seabed.
Transportation & ferries — 3,566 records. Ferries, roads, docks used for transport, and island access.
Bylaw enforcement — 3,416 records. Compliance, enforcement notices, prosecutions, injunctions and the enforcement policy.
Climate & environment — 3,392 records. Climate change, greenhouse gases, sensitive ecosystems and species at risk.
Fresh water & aquifers — 3,275 records. Groundwater, aquifers, wells, watersheds and drinking-water supply.
Housing & affordability — 3,138 records. Affordable housing, secondary suites, density, and the housing needs of residents.
Agriculture & the ALR — 2,211 records. Farming, farm status, and the Agricultural Land Reserve and Commission.
Forestry & trees — 2,114 records. Forest zoning, private managed forest land, logging and tree protection.
Aquaculture & shellfish — 2,108 records. Shellfish tenures, aquaculture licensing and the Baynes Sound shellfish industry.

By year

The date the Trust gives for the record. Some are missing and a few are plainly wrong — the index contains a bylaw dated 2065 — so a document with an implausible date is shown without one rather than filed under a false year.

2026 — 469
2025 — 572
2024 — 620
2023 — 674
2022 — 644
2021 — 622
2020 — 539
2019 — 411
2018 — 390
2017 — 340
2016 — 333
2015 — 246
2014 — 270
2013 — 296
2012 — 252
2011 — 136
2010 — 22
2009 — 36
2008 — 79
2007 — 20
2006 — 14
2005 — 16
2004 — 22
2003 — 17
2002 — 22
2001 — 7
2000 — 11
1999 — 7
1998 — 12
1997 — 5
1996 — 37
1995 — 7
1994 — 29
1993 — 14
1992 — 19
1990 — 13
1987 — 1
1986 — 1
1983 — 2
1982 — 2
1978 — 1
1977 — 1
1973 — 1
1972 — 1

Most recent additions

Accessibility Committee Regular Meeting Agenda

Islands Trust Area; original publication: 2026-10-06; ingested/checked: 2026-09-29; text status: pending

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