Library Guides: Historical Primary Sources: Canada: Newspapers & Magazines

Newspapers

Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
A collection of 45 national periodicals, local community news, and student publications from indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada. [1826-2016]
The bulk of titles were founded in the 1970s, documenting the proliferation of Indigenous journalism that grew out of the occupation of Wounded Knee, meeting the demand for objective reporting from within Indian Country.

BC Historical Newspapers
Historical newspapers from British Columbia, dating from 1859 to 1995.
British Colonist (1858-1980)
Contains all the issues of the British Colonist (also called The Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to December 1980. Published in Victoria, B.C.

Canadian Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Calgary Herald (1883-2010), Edmonton Journal (1903-2010), The Globe and Mail‎ (1844 - 2014), Leader-Post (Regina) (1883-2010), Montreal Gazette (1857 - 2010, Ottawa Citizen (1846-2010), The Province (Vancouver) (1898-2010), Saskatoon Star Phoenix (1902-2009), Times Colonist (Victoria) (1884-2010), Toronto Star‎ (1894 - 2015), Vancouver Sun (1912-2010), Windsor Star (1893 - 2010)

Canadiana: Periodicals, Annuals, and Newspapers
Includes a wide range of digitized historical dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations.
Early Alberta Newspapers
Daily and weekly newspapers from various communities in Alberta from 1885 - 2001.
Manitoba Newspapers (University of Manitoba)
Searchable collection of Manitoba historical newspapers.
Newfoundland Newspapers (Memorial University)
Once an historical nrewspaper has been selected from the list, the subsequent web page will provide an option for searching that newspaper or all of the newspapers included in the Digital Archives Initiative.
Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online
A growing collection of historic newspaper titles from Nova Scotia, over the period 1769 to 2003.
Ontario Community Newspapers Portal
Over 200 years of Ontario newspapers, some of which are full text searchable.
Revues et journaux québécois archivés (Archived Quebec magazines and newspapers)
Historical newspapers and magazine digitized by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online
The project when completed will see the digitization of newspapers from all across Saskatchewan from 1878 through to the mid 1960s.
Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection
Search or browse this collection of 20 historical newspapers.