Sound Recordings

Music recordings, oral histories and radio broadcasts all offer insights into BC’s social and cultural history. The BC Archives has an extensive and varied collection of sound recordings which includes cylinders, phonograph records, tape reels, cassettes and compact discs.
 
Search the online catalogue for sound recordings.  Reference copies exist for many of the sound recordings and can be used in the reference room.  Complete or partial transcripts are available for some of the oral history interviews. Transcripts are noted in the online description.