Historical Online Newspapers

Links to historical Canadian newspapers that are freely available on the Internet. If dates of coverage are included in an entry for a newspaper, the source may or may not include all issues within the listed time period. Also, the dates of coverage were correct when they were added to the entry, but may have changed since they were recorded.

Scroll to the bottom for the list of historical Canadian newspapers. You will also find several specialized collections of historical Canadian newspapers.

Explore the headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to 1996.

This page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. Scroll to the second part of the list which links to resources that may be free.

If you are researching Irish ancestors, you will undoubtedly want to look the online web source: the Church of Ireland Gazette Digital Archive Complete (1856-2010). The Church of Ireland Gazette Digital Archive is complete. All editions of the newspaper, from its foundation in 1856 up to and including 2010, are freely available electronically, allowing the worldwide audience to view and search it using any name, place, or other search term. This gifts everybody from the cursory reader to the academic researcher with access to this extensive resource.