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Newspaper Databases
- Canadian Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Canadian Major Dailies provides the full text of 20 Canadian national and regional newspapers including the National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window
Find full-text current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more. Includes local newspapers, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic, minority and native presses in the U.S. Includes both historic publications, starting in 1959, as well as current ones.
- Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides worldwide full text access to local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni is a source for newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts, as well as legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790, and information on U.S. and international companies and executives.
Local News Outlets
You can browse the latest Canadian news using PressReader! This database includes full digital access to newspapers such as The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Le Journal de Montreal, and the National Post. It also includes magazines like Canadian Living, Canadian Geographic, and Elle Canada. Use this to see full articles in context with advertisements.
Historical Newspapers & Magazines
- Ad*AccessOver 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
- The British ColonistThis website 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.
- British Columbia Historical NewspapersThe BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to the Ymir Mirror, date from 1859 to 1995.
- Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World WarThis collection of more than 140,000 clippings, arranged by subject and date, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war. The English-language clippings are from the archive of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper, while the French-language materials are from a collection of the newspaper Le Devoir.
- Manitoba Historical NewspapersThe Manitobia Project is a natural extension of the mandate of the Manitoba Library Consortium (MLCI), an organization dedicated to providing Manitobans and other Canadians with extensive and more equitable access to the library and information resources of the province. The project was funded by Canadian Culture Online. The digitization of the Winnipeg Tribune was funded by the University of Manitoba Libraries. The digitization of newspapers published during the Second World War was funded by the Council of Post Secondary Education. Digitization of these significant resources will enable the Consortium to overcome the geographical barriers within the province, making unique resources available throughout Manitoba and beyond.
- New Brunswick Historical NewspapersA collaborative project at UNB Libraries between Archives and Special Collections, Microforms, the Imaging Centre and Library Systems to build a portal to every known newspaper published in or directly related to New Brunswick regardless of available format.
- Peel's Prairie Provinces, University of AlbertaPeel's Prairie Provinces is a collection of digitized materials related to western Canada.
- SFU Digitized NewspapersA resource for digitized immigrant and foreign-language papers. By Simon Fraser University. Sample titles include: Canadian Jewish News (1960-93); The New Canadian (1939-85); and Messenger (1978-84).
