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Search digitized New Brunswick and Nova Scotia newspapers on UNB’s website

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Gail Dever

The University of New Brunswick (UNB) has recently digitized more newspapers from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It’s quite an incredible collection, dating back to the late 1700s in some cases. You can search by newspaper title or do a … Continue reading →

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University of New Brunswick adds the ‘Carleton Sentinel’ to its searchable online newspaper collection

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Gail Dever

If you have ancestors who lived in New Brunswick and you haven’t searched for them on the University of New Brunswick’s free online collection of newspapers, called the New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project, you should give it a try. There … Continue reading →

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University of New Brunswick launches interactive story maps of 10 loyalists

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Gail Dever

Between 1783 and 1785, approximately 15,000 loyalists of the American Revolution arrived in what would become the colony of New Brunswick. Most of them landed at the mouth of the St. John River, overwhelming the 400 plus civilians and troops … Continue reading →

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