How many records does the archive hold?

62,792 records about Christchurch, every one linked at the provider that keeps the original.

How far back does the archive reach?

1800, the oldest record on file.

Where do the records come from?

30 collections: council archives, Papers Past, DigitalNZ’s partners, cemetery registers, the heritage list itself. The shelf says what exists and where it lives.

Are these documents verified?

They are leads and citations, not evidence, a record says a document exists and where to read it. What a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it; those readings live on the place pages.

“Lava”, the shelf

Every record the archive holds about Christchurch, the oldest first. The originals live at the provider each row links to.

139 records matching 14 of these 39 with their text read Papers Past · Canterbury Stories · Kura Heritage Collections Online · Te Papa Collections Online · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints · TAPUHI · Canterbury Museum · Auckland Museum Collections · New Zealand Gazette · Digital Public Library of America · V.C. Browne & Son NZ Aerial Photograph Collection · Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · Hocken Digital Collections · Museums Victoria · Air Force Museum of New Zealand Photograph Collection · Wellington City Council Archives · The New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero · New Zealand Electronic Text Collection · Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection · Lincoln University Living Heritage: Tikaka Tuku Iho · Flickr · Radio New Zealand · Alexander Turnbull Library Flickr · Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki · Te Hikoi Museum · iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao · Manawatū Heritage · Canterbury Photography Museum · Akaroa Museum · Hawke's Bay Museum

the 2010s
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions by Christchurch City Libraries · Flickr · no. 5636339298 · eqnz.chch.2010 · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635717521 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635719639 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635721929 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635724767 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636315588 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635739433 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636321416 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635743785 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636325280 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635747667 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636334478 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636336882 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636339298 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636341848 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636346142 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636348332 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636364376 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636368670 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635791447 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636373366 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636377120 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5636379768 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635806647 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Apr 2011
London Street demolitions Christchurch City Libraries Flickr · no. 5635809381 · Christchurch City Libraries · about 1 place
15 Dec 2011
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 3 places
17 May 2012
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 3 places
19 Jul 2012
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 5 places
13 Dec 2012
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 1 place
21 Feb 2013
Notice of Intention to Restore Companies to the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 1 place
18 Apr 2013
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 2 places
17 Apr 2014
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 1 place
22 May 2014
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 4 places
14 Aug 2014
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 3 places
19 Jan 2017
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 2 places
14 Nov 2019
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From The Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 1 place
the 2020s
15 Dec 2022
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 3 places
13 Aug 2026
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 3 places
17 Sept 2026
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register The New Zealand Gazette · New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · text read · about 2 places

Most of these originals are not republishable here, the link goes to the provider that keeps them. A search result is a lead, not evidence: what a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it, and those readings live on the place pages.

“Lava”, the shelf

The shelf

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