Category Archives: Newspapers

More Canadian papers available on Newspapers.com

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Gail Dever

Eleven Canadian newspapers were recently added to Newspapers.com. Ten are from Ontario and one is published in British Columbia. The unfortunate news for some researchers is that almost all of the issues are from this century. Here are the latest … Continue reading →

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Two Quebec newspapers added to Newspapers.com

Posted on March 5, 2026 by Gail Dever

Newspapers.com has added two newspapers from Sherbrooke, Quebec to its online, searchable database. The newspaper that has a lot to offer is Sherbrooke’s French-language publication, La Tribune. It includes 733,070 searchable pages from 1910 to 2005. The paper describes itself … Continue reading →

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Grenville County Ontario Digital Newspaper Archive

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Gail Dever

In his weekly Sunday Sundries, John Reid shared the news that “35,000 scanned and OCR’d pages of newspapers, dating 1889 to 1965, from the Prescott (Ontario) area are now online, courtesy of a Grenville County Historical Society initiative.” The search … Continue reading →

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Search digitized New Brunswick and Nova Scotia newspapers on UNB’s website

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Gail Dever

The University of New Brunswick (UNB) has recently digitized more newspapers from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It’s quite an incredible collection, dating back to the late 1700s in some cases. You can search by newspaper title or do a … Continue reading →

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Want to see a newspaper on Newspapers.com or GenealogyBank? Try submitting a request

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Gail Dever

Do you know that you can suggest newspapers for Newspapers.com or GenealogyBank to consider adding to their online collections? I didn’t know this until I read Marian B. Wood’s blog post, Ask for a Newspaper to Be Added to Database. … Continue reading →

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The three Brampton, Ontario papers I forgot to include in ‘Newspapers.com adds more newspapers from British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia’

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Gail Dever

When I wrote about the more than four dozen newly added Canadian newspapers on Newspapers.com in the blog post, Newspapers.com adds more newspapers from British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia, I forgot to include three additional ones from Brampton, Ontario. … Continue reading →

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Newspapers.com adds more newspapers from British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Gail Dever

The folks at Newspapers.com have been busy lately uploading digitized images of newspapers from Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia for their subscribers. If your people lived in Welland, Ontario, you’ll be especially excited. The newspapers in Welland now cover … Continue reading →

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More Ontario newspapers, published this century, have been added to Newspapers.com

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Gail Dever

Newspapers.com continues to add more Ontario newspapers to its online collection. This week, they’ve added eight (or nine) titles, all from southern Ontario and published within the last 14 years. (A review of several pages in The News Advertiser for … Continue reading →

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173 years of Globe and Mail searchable on Newspapers.com

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Gail Dever

Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper, 1844-2017, is now searchable on Newspapers.com. During the past couple of weeks, the ability to search all of the issues of this publication has improved immensely. For example, at first, a search of “war” produced … Continue reading →

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University of New Brunswick adds the ‘Carleton Sentinel’ to its searchable online newspaper collection

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Gail Dever

If you have ancestors who lived in New Brunswick and you haven’t searched for them on the University of New Brunswick’s free online collection of newspapers, called the New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project, you should give it a try. There … Continue reading →

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