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Primary Sources: Historical Canadian Newspapers

National & Multiprovince Newspapers

Canada Gazette 1841-1997
The official Canadian government newspaper.
Canada Gazette 1998 - present
The official Canadian government newspaper
Canadian News Online
Links to newspapers
CanGenealogy: Digitized Canadian Newspapers
Links to many digitized Canadian newspapers.
Catholic Newspapers Online
This ongoing project hopes to eventually digitize every Catholic newspaper in North America.
Connecting Canadians: Canada's Multicultural Newspapers
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War/ La Democratie en Guerre: Les Journaux Canadiens et la Seconde Guerre Mondiale 1939-1945
Clippings of 144,000 newspaper articles, mostly Canadian, from WWII.
Editorial Cartoons Collection 1952-
Editorial cartoons appearing in Canadian newspapers 1952 -
Financial Post 1907-1986
Financial Post of Canada 1911-1912, 1918
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919)
GenDisasters.com: Events That Touched Our Ancestors' Lives: Browse by Province
Transcribed newspaper articles about fires, train wrecks, floods, and other disasters. Organized by province.
Historical Newspapers (Library & Archives Canada)
Also includes links to newspaper indexes.
Maple Leaf: For Canadian Troops In Action 1944-1946
Multicultural Canada
SFU Digitized Newspapers
Full text of more than 50 newspapers in various languages. This site includes immigrant newspapers, activist newspapers, foreign language newspapers, British Columbia newspapers, etc.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers

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