Research guides: Newspapers: Canada

General Canadian newspaper databases

Canadian Newsstream
- Covers major Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and National Post
- With some titles, coverage lags by two days
Factiva
- Includes the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and others
- Coverage up to the current day
- NOTE: Users are automatically logged out after 5 minutes of inactivity
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
- Indexes and provides full text to selected Canadian newspapers, including ethnic and religious newspapers, and news wires
- To see the full list of publications, click on the Publications Search tab when you enter the database
CPI.Q
- Indexes and provides full text to selected Canadian newspapers, including ethnic and religious newspapers
- To see the full list of publications, consult the Title list when you enter the database

The Globe and Mail

Canada's Heritage from 1844 (Globe and Mail) (Legacy Platform)
- The Globe and Mail and its predecessors
- 1844-2014

The Globe and Mail
- 1936+

Back issues on microfilm

Find back issues of the Globe and Mail on microfilm at the Media Commons on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library.

Globe and Mail (Includes Weekend Magazine): Nov. 1936 +
- Call Number: mfm/AN/G568
Globe: May 2, 1844 - Nov. 1936
- Call Number: mfm/AN/G563
- For details, see the guide to Newspapers & Periodicals

The Toronto Star

The Toronto Star
- 1971+
Toronto Star (ProQuest Historical)
- 1894-2015

Back issues on microfilm

Find back issues of the Toronto Star on microfilm at the Media Commons on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library.

Toronto Daily Star (Includes Canadian Magazine after Jan. 1971): 1894 + (Lacking: Dec. 1 - 15, 1933; Jan. 1 - 15)
- Call Number: mfm/AN/T676
Toronto Daily Star. Sunday Star: Jan. 1978 - Dec. 1980
- Call Number: mfm/AN/T6762

National Post

National Post
- 1998+

Back issues on microfilm

Find back issues of the National Post on microfilm at the Media Commons on the 3rd floor of Robarts Library.

National Post: Oct. 27, 1998 + (Includes Financial Post Feb. 1999 +)
- Call Number: mfm/AN/N39

Other Canadian newspapers

Windspeaker
- 1993+
- Indexed from 1986 Canadian Business & Current Affairs
- 1983-2003 available on microfilm in the Media Commons
- 1986-2015 available online from Library and Archives Canada
Xtra (Toronto)
- Online: 2008-2015
- Microfilm: 1984+
- In print: 1984-2011
The Vancouver Sun
- 1987+
- Microfilm available at Media Commons, 1977+

Canadian historical newspapers

Paper of Record
Includes a considerable number of Canadian newspapers, largely from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Globe and Mail, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, 1844-2013
The Toronto Star, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, 1894-2013

Canadian open access historical newspapers

National

List of Canadian online newspaper archives from Wikipedia
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Bibliothèque et Archives nationals Quebec has started an ambitious digitization program for the whole of the published and archival documentary heritage produced in Québec since the 17th century, or of foreign origin and related to Québec. The collection includes many Quebec newspaper titles, both French and English.
The Canada Gazette
Often referred to as "the official newspaper of the Government of Canada," the Canada Gazette has been an important instrument in the Canadian democratic process for more than 160 years. The database comprises images taken from microfilm, microfiche and rare original copies of the Gazette held by LAC.
Connecting Canadians
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919)
presents selected French-language newspapers from across Canada, in a digitized, fully-searchable format. These newspapers form the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection of first, final and special editions of French-Canadian newspapers.
Multicultural Canada
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers

Ontario

OurOntario.ca Community Newspapers Collection
Search through INK and Ontario Community Newspapers Portal.
The collection covers: The British Whig (1834 - 1836, 1844-1850), The Essex Free Press (1895 - 1968), The Kingston Chronicle (1826 - 1832), The Kingston Chronicle and Gazette (1835 - 1837, 1841 - 1847), The Kingston Gazette (1810 - 1820), The Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1857), The Stouffville Tribune (1888-1905 ), The Voice of the Fugitive (1851 - 1852), Wainwright Star Chronicle (1908-2008), and so forth.
To see individual community page, visit Ontario Community Newspapers Portal (List)
Grey Highlands Digital Newspaper Project
Halton's Historical Newspapers (Halinet)
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919)
presents selected French-language newspapers from across Canada, in a digitized, fully-searchable format. These newspapers form the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection of first, final and special editions of French-Canadian newspapers.

Quebec and French Canadian

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Bibliothèque et Archives nationals Quebec has started an ambitious digitization program for the whole of the published and archival documentary heritage produced in Québec since the 17th century, or of foreign origin and related to Québec. The collection includes many Quebec newspaper titles, both French and English.
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919)
presents selected French-language newspapers from across Canada, in a digitized, fully-searchable format. These newspapers form the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection of first, final and special editions of French-Canadian newspapers.
Multicultural Canada

Other provinces

Alberta Newspaper Collection
Full-text database of scanned images. Includes dailies, weeklies and other formats, full-text. Not yet complete.
British Colonist
Eleanor Muehle Newspaper Archive (Terrace, B.C.)
Manitoba: Life and Times: Newspapers
Memorial University of Newfoundland - Digital Newspaper Archives
Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers
Peel's Prairie Provinces: Newspapers
Prince George Newspapers Project
Quesnel Cariboo Observer (B.C)
Saskatchewan News Index
Index only. Does not include full-text. See home page for link to list of papers covered.
Vanderhoof Newspaper Archive (B.C.)
– Nechako Chronicle 1920-1983
– The Vanderhoof Herald 1917-1920

Newspaper indexes in print

Canadian News Index and Canadian Newspaper Index
Print predecessors to CBCA.

Canadian News Index. 1980-1992. Robarts Library. General Reference, Table 2 AI 3 .C261
Canadian Newspaper Index.1977-1979. Robarts Library. General Reference, Table 2 AI 3 .C26
Index de l'Actualite
AI 21 .D42 Robarts Reference. Print Index. Indexes Le Devoir and several other Quebec newspapers. Covers 1972-1997.
Index Le Devoir.
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General Canadian newspaper databases

The Globe and Mail

Back issues on microfilm

The Toronto Star

Back issues on microfilm

National Post

Back issues on microfilm

Other Canadian newspapers

Canadian historical newspapers

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Quebec and French Canadian

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