Ancestry’s Newspapers.com has added the Whitehorse Daily Star to its digital collection, available through subscription. Although the description indicates coverage begins only in 1995, digitized images of the newspaper are available from as early as 1901.
The Whitehorse Daily Star is one of two newspapers in the Yukon’s capital city.
The newspaper was founded in 1900 and progressed from a weekly to twice-weekly, three-times weekly during the 1960s, to five times per week briefly around 1980-1983. It has been published five times per week since about 1986. On March 4, 2019, the publisher reduced the printing schedule to three days a week to cut costs.
The paper’s motto, illegitimus non carborundum — a mock-Latin phrase meaning, roughly, “don’t let the bastards grind you down” — has been printed above or under the paper’s name on every issue since about 1967.
With the addition of the Whitehorse Daily Star, the number of Canadian titles on Newspapers.com has reached 84.
