
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network recently added to the Canadiana website five years of The Toronto World newspaper, from January 1, 1913 to December 31, 1917, and five years of the Montreal Almanack for the Year of Our Lord for the years 1831, 1833, 1837, 1841, and 1842.
The Toronto World was a newspaper based in Toronto that existed between 1880 and 1921, with a Sunday edition that operated from 1891 to 1924. The newspaper covered local and international news, along with sports.
Founded by William Findlay “Billy” Maclean, the newspaper was popular among Toronto’s working class. According to Wikipedia, “It was said to be the ‘editorially boldest’ of the Toronto press, and was notable for its irreverence, noisy exposés of civic corruption, skillful skirting of the libel laws, and opposition to the religious establishment.”
So far, 11,897 issues of the newspaper have been digitized and made available on Canadiana.
You can search for a keyword within the entire series or within an individual issue. The results will indicate which issue or page, but the keyword is not highlighted on the page. You have to read the page to find it.
One of the articles on the front page of the July 30, 1913 issue is about Mary Wyman a suffragette hunger striker who refused to leave Holloway jail in the west end of London, England.

This Toronto newspaper is also a good resource for understanding the social history at the time. Reading the newspaper on the day your ancestor married provides an idea of news people may have been discussing.
The ads are also provide insight into what life may have been like for an ancestor. For example, in 1913, the Robert Simpson Company was selling mahogany dressers for $20,85 and men’s suits for $7.95.
To be added soon to Canadiana are the issues of The Toronto World, published in 1920 and 1921, which should complete the online archival collection.
Perhaps a little less beneficial to genealogists, but interesting nevertheless, is the collection, Montreal Almanack for the Year of Our Lord. Researchers are unlikely to find an ancestor’s name in the yearly publications, unless they held public office or were a notary, lawyer or Protestant religious leader, but it is still worth looking at, even if only to see what people were reading at the time.