Canadian Newspaper Databases & Indexes
BC Newspaper Index -- An index of The Province, The Vancouver Sun, and The Victoria Times Colonist from 1991- the present. Note: this is an index only, it provides no full text of the articles indexed. The BC Periodicals Index is available on this site as well.
Other Electronic Newspapers
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index) indexes more than 125 regional newspapers from across Canada. Full-text coverage extends back two to ten months from the present. Of particular interest:
Other Formats
Print
The library receives the following major newspapers in print (as well as a number of minor ones). Check the Journal Titles page for information on back issues.
- Globe and Mail
- LeMonde (French)
- National Post
- Province
- Vancouver Sun
- Wall Street Journal
Microfilm
The library has back issues of the:
- Winnipeg Free Press from January 3, 1977 -- December 31, 1992, and
- Toronto Star from January 1, 1977 -- December 31, 1989.
The Toronto Star can be searched from the link on this page on their website; however, you will need to limit your search to the dates which we have on microfilm. Online material from the Star is paid content.
Online Newspapers Archives
Canadian
Alberta Newspaper Collection -- Part of the Alberta Heritage Digitization Project, this is a very fine collection of historical newspapers that have been digitized. It includes wide, although not exhaustive, coverage of several major daily newspapers from Calgary and Edmonton, as well less complete coverage of local newspapers from smaler cities and towns. Because the collection contains only scanned images of the newspapers, the contents are not searchable. They can only be browsed by date and location. The images include commercial and classified advertising.
The Canadian Historic Newspapers Collection -- is a collection of 88 free online newspapers. Very few of them have long or complete runs, but, in addition to English, they include native-language newspapers from a number of significant Canadian ethnic groups including: Chinese, French, Metis, and the South Asian community.
The Paper of Record -- PaperofRecord.com is a Global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. It requires users to set up a free account, but in return offers access to more than 21 million images. Newsapers are from Canada and 14 other countries around the world.
International
Google News Archive search Searches a number of online newspapers and archives. The results contain both free and paid content. For more information see: News Archive Search Help
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -- This site (courtesy of the US Library of Congress) allows users to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
New York Times -- Articles in the public domain, published from 1851 – 1922, are available for free. Set the date range in the advanced search interface to limit your search to the free archives.
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