Browse digitised items from the Christchurch City Council Archives via Canterbury Stories.

Christchurch City Council Archives collaborates with Christchurch City Libraries to digitise and share selected content from the collection online.

Digitised items are now available via CanterburyStories.nz(external link).

Digitised resources

The Christchurch City Council Archives collection(external link) includes reports and minutes from the very first days of the Council and portraits of the early Christchurch Mayors(external link).

Further digitised resources include maps, plans and drawings of Christchurch and Council history:

Further content is being added to Canterbury Stories as part of an ongoing programme of digitisation.

Reproduction and copyright 

These images are provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the permission of Christchurch City Council Archives. 

This material has been provided for private study purposes, such as school projects, and family and local history research, and any published print or electronic reproduction may infringe copyright law.

Please contact archives@ccc.govt.nz if you have any questions relating to the use of this material. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain clearance from the copyright holder.