If you have relatives who lived in New Brunswick between 1884 and 2024, you may want to consider exploring Fredericton’s Daily Gleaner on Newspapers.com. There are almost one million searchable pages for paper alone. A friend told me the publication is a fairly new addition to Ancestry’s newspaper website.
Right now, there are seven other New Brunswick papers on Newspapers.com, but the Daily Gleaner is by far the biggest. The others are:
Bugle Observer, Woodstock — 2010-2024
Evening Times-Globe, Saint John – 1992
L’Acadie nouvelle, Caraquet – 1984-2014
L’Indice économique – 1990
Telegraph Journal, Saint John – 1963 and 1992
Weekly Gleaner, Fredericton – 1896-1900 (only 24 pages)
York Gleaner, Fredericton, 1882-1884
The Telegraph Journal in Saint John is the only New Brunswick-based English-language newspaper to be distributed province-wide. It has also had the highest readership. Let’s hope the 151 pages for 1963 and 1992 on Newspapers.com are just the beginning of Ancestry’s plans to add the paper’s entire run.
If you don’t have a subscription to Newspapers.com, you can still visit the site to see which newspapers are available by country, province, state and county. You can also see how many times your keyword appears in a particular newspaper. If searching for a first and last name, put quotation marks around the name, such as “Jane Doe.” Also try a first initial, such as “j doe.”
