Data · dataset · 2026
Council meeting minutes - archival
Listed in vancouver
This dataset contains City Council meeting minutes and the reports filed with them for all of the Regular, Special and Inaugural Council meetings held in the 1970s.
Description
They are presented in the order in which they were originally paginated, which may not always coincide with date order. Typographical errors in the official record have been left in and will not be corrected.
The data is formatted as a single text (TXT) file concatenated from 554 individual meeting files: a double-line separator (=======) has been inserted between each set of minutes. It does not contain any images present in the minutes. Data access The format of this dataset is not compatible with our new platform.
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The data file is available here: Council meeting minutes - archival (TXT)
Note
This digitization project was made possible by funding from the British Columbia History Digitization Program at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. Data currency The data on this site is updated as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors are corrected. Data accuracy The OCR has been proofread but errors may remain.
Refer to the image of the original page in the PDF version where there are discrepancies between image and OCR text. Websites for further information Meetings may be searched by date and resolution in the Archives' online database . Meetings may be viewed as PDF with OCR (and other derivatives) on the Internet Archive .
Links
Get the data
- CSV export vancouver.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/council-meeting-minutes-arch… ↗
download · from vancouver opendatasoft com
Where it is published
- vancouver dataset page vancouver.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/council-meeting-minutes-archival ↗
landing page · from vancouver opendatasoft com
Catalogue records · 1
- Explore API vancouver.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/council-meeting-minutes-arch… ↗
metadata API · from vancouver opendatasoft com
Topics
- Stated by source
- Government and finance
- From keywords
- Economics & Finance · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Image 75% · Optical character recognition 75% · Text 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| vancouver | council-meeting-minutes-archival | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].local:method:ocr | enrichment · vancouver opendatasoft com | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · vancouver opendatasoft com | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:text | enrichment · vancouver opendatasoft com | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[topic].ods_theme:vancouver_opendatasoft_com:government-and-finance | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | /metas/default/description |
| license_text | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 | /metas/default/title |
| updated_date | source · vancouver opendatasoft com | connector:vancouver_opendatasoft_com@1.0.0 |