More than 150 years of Globe and Mail newspaper archives available to Toronto library card holders

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Gail Dever

I’m envious.

If you have a Toronto Public Library card, you can have online access to articles and full page reproductions of the Globe and Mail newspaper archives from 1844 to 2012 — from your home or anywhere else.

According to blogger John D. Reid of Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, the Ottawa Public Library also provides online access to Canada’s national newspaper.

It has been a while since I last checked which newspapers can be accessed online from home at my library. I discovered I now have access to 24 English Canadian newspapers, including the Globe and Mail from 1977 to present, several French Canadian newspapers, and many others from the US and elsewhere in the world.

I sent an email to my library asking if there are plans to offer older issues of the Globe and Mail as they do in Toronto. They’ll probably respond later today.

If you don’t live in Toronto, you may want to find out what your library offers.

Thanks for the tip, Margaret D.

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2 Responses to More than 150 years of Globe and Mail newspaper archives available to Toronto library card holders

  1. Nick Moreau says:
    November 1, 2016 at 8:27 am

    Secret hack for Ontario residents: while they don’t widely admit it, Brampton Library offers cards to anyone from Ontario. Through that, you get access to the Toronto Star (1894-2011) and Globe and Mail databases.

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