The University of British Columbia yesterday announced that Vancouver Island University Library has completed part two of its digitization of the Nanaimo Free Press (1874-1928) collection.
Nanaimo is the sixth oldest incorporated municipality in British Columbia and a key site of settler early industry as a mining town.
The Nanaimo Daily Free Press was founded by George Norris in 1874. It is the second-oldest newspaper on Vancouver Island. The Nanaimo Free Press’ first newspaper was published in April 15 of the same year. It started as a four-page paper, published each Wednesday and Friday in a vacated Hudson’s Bay Company log house on Front Street in Nanaimo’s downtown. On December 4, 1888, it expanded to daily publication,
The Nanaimo Free Press (1872-1928): Part II was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2019/2020 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.
