Islands Trust public-record archive

Put the rules and decisions on the map

Find the rules for your home. Read the source. See what changed. Public land records should be easy for everyone to use.

Read the record today

Land Intelligence brings land maps and their sources together. It shows lots, zones, farm land rules, assessed values and soil data. Our Trust archive holds bylaws, maps and meeting records. We turn scanned pages and recorded speech into text you can search.

Bylaws and maps · Public-record archive · Meeting transcripts

Machines can misread a page or a voice. Check quoted words in the linked source.

Build outward from British Columbia

Start with BC. Keep town, city and regional land rules, maps and dated records. Link each rule to the land it affects. Then grow across Canada and the world. The goal includes buildings and each home within them, such as condos. Each new area needs a clear list of sources, dates and gaps.

Original source collections: Islands Trust document library · Trust public local-area files

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.

7,247 records, spanning 1972 to 2026; 6,843 carry extracted text and are full-text searchable. 118 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 — 2,399 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 — 643 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 — 501 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 — 211 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 — 5,058 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 — 282 records. Bylaws in force, including official community plans and land use bylaws.
Policies — 165 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 — 47 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 — 5,369 records. Trust Council, the Executive Committee, budgets, requisitions and governance reviews.
First Nations & reconciliation — 4,737 records. Referrals to and correspondence with First Nations, treaty processes and reconciliation policy.
Marine & foreshore — 3,916 records. Records touching the water: marine zoning, foreshore, docks and moorage, shoreline mapping and the seabed.
Transportation & ferries — 3,588 records. Ferries, roads, docks used for transport, and island access.
Bylaw enforcement — 3,441 records. Compliance, enforcement notices, prosecutions, injunctions and the enforcement policy.
Climate & environment — 3,419 records. Climate change, greenhouse gases, sensitive ecosystems and species at risk.
Fresh water & aquifers — 3,302 records. Groundwater, aquifers, wells, watersheds and drinking-water supply.
Housing & affordability — 3,157 records. Affordable housing, secondary suites, density, and the housing needs of residents.
Agriculture & the ALR — 2,226 records. Farming, farm status, and the Agricultural Land Reserve and Commission.
Forestry & trees — 2,130 records. Forest zoning, private managed forest land, logging and tree protection.
Aquaculture & shellfish — 2,125 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 — 484
2025 — 572
2024 — 619
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

HR-Staffing_2026-07-27_PS-Planner-2-Job-Profile_FINAL

Trust Area; original publication: 2026-10-19; ingested/checked: 2026-10-20; text status: extracted

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