Good things are happening at Ancestry’s Newspapers.com, including increased Canadian content.
Earlier this month, Newspapers.com, the largest online newspaper archive, reached a major milestone. It now has one billion newspaper pages for subscribers to explore.
During the past four weeks, the number of Canadian titles has jumped from 487 titles to 542. Yesterday afternoon, the number dropped, for some reason, to 541.
But Ancestry isn’t making it easy for us to see which Canadian newspapers are newly added these days. Yes, there is a New button to click, but until recently it had only highlighted 17 newspapers. Now, not one paper is highlighted as being new. But that’s just whining on my part.
The 17 newspapers that had been identified as being new were almost all from the Toronto area. Some have several years and many pages. Others, such as the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Telegram, have only one year. Are these one-year papers perhaps markers, indicating more years will be added?
The Etobicoke Press, Etobicoke Ontario, 1951-1957
Etobicoke Guardian, Etobicoke, Ontario, 1952-2002
Etobicoke Gazette, Etobicoke, Ontario, 1975-1981
The Lakeshore Advertiser, Etobicoke, Ontario, 1972-1987
The Willowdale Mirror, Toronto, Ontario, 1960-1984
The York Guardian, Toronto, Ontario, September 21, 2001
The North York Consumer, Toronto, Ontario, 1977-1982
The Royal Bank Reporter, Toronto, Ontario, October 15, 1986
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, July 1, 1967
The Globe, Toronto, Ontario, July 1, 1867
The Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario, November 1, 1971
The Toronto Telegram, Toronto, Ontario, October 30, 1971
The Mirror, Scarborough, Ontario, 1984
The Scarborough Mirror, Scarborough, Ontario, 1962-1999
Scarboro Consumer, Scarborough, Ontario, 1977-1981
Le Nationaliste, Montreal, Quebec, 1904-1922
L’Indice économique, Caraquet, New Brunswick, May 31, 1990
Other newly added newspapers include Cornwall, Ontario’s The Freeholder, 1883-1928, and The Standard Freeholder, 1886-2008. In all, there are now about 700,000 pages for this city in the eastern part of the province.
Earlier this month, I wrote about the 140 years of Fredericton, New Brunswick’s Daily Gleaner that had been added.
Whether you’re a subscriber or not, you can easily find out which Canadian newspapers are available. Just click on Papers in the top drop-menu. Next, select Canada above the default map of the United States. From there, you can select a province or you can enter a city name in the Filter by paper or location box.
Despite not being able to figure out how the number of Canadian titles jumped to 542 and what the names of all the newly added newspapers are, I’m still a happy researcher.
Don’t have a subscription? You can sign up for a free one-week trial to view all of the newspapers. Warning: Newspaper research is highly addictive.
