Newspapers
Current issues of newspapers in print format
At Webster Library, current print issues of the following daily newspapers are available in the newspaper display shelves:
- Le Devoir
- The National Post
- Globe and Mail
- Montreal Gazette
- The Wall Street Journal
At Vanier Library, current print issues of the following daily newspapers are available at the Circulation Desk:
- Globe and Mail
- Montreal Gazette
- New York Times
Full-text databases for current newspapers
Check the e-journals list by title of the newspaper you are looking for to find out if we have electronic access to it through one of the major newspaper databases below or through another database that we subscribe to. The e-journals list will also provide details on years of coverage by source.
- Canadian Newsstream
Includes over 300 primarily English language Canadian newspapers including major Canadian dailies, such as Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail. You may also access this database via Proquest Central - Eureka.cc
Essential to access French language Canadian daily newspapers such as La Presse, Le Devoir, Le Soleil. Provides full image pdf for some titles in addition to full-text. Also includes regional and weekly papers from across Canada. Selected international coverage. - Factiva
Includes Canadian, U.S. and international newspapers including major dailies and regional newspapers. - Proquest Central
Includes Canadian, U.S and international newspapers including major dailies such as Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune. Use the filter options to limit by region, title or database group (Canadian Newsstream, U.S. Newsstream, International Newsstream) - Lexis-Nexis
Only available within the Library during service hours. It includes a wide range of international and U.S. newspapers and may be useful to check if the newspaper you are looking for is not listed in the e-journals list or covered in another database. Titles included in Lexis-Nexis are not listed in the e-journals list.
Historical full image electronic archives
- Financial Times Historical Archive(1888-2010)
- Proquest Historical Globe and Mail (1844-2013)
- Proquest Historical Irish Times (1859-2011) and the Weekly Irish Times (1876-1958)
- Proquest Historical Jerusalem Post (1932-1988)
- Proquest Historical Toronto Star (1894-2013)
- Proquest Historical New York Times (1851-2013)
- Times (London) Digital Archive (1785-2010)
- Proquest Historical Wall Street Journal (1889-1999)
- Proquest Historical Washington Post (1877-2000)
- ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Includes the Montreal Gazette from January 2011 onwards and the Wall Street Journal from January 2008 onwards. There is a time lag of approximately three months between updates in the database and the most recent issue.
- Paper of Record
Includes full image scans of newspapers from Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe and Australia, with coverage mostly from the 1800s to early/mid 1900. - Early Canadiana Online - Periodicals
Includes selected news periodicals from the 17th to the early 20th century, including the Canadian Illustrated News
Historical full image microform archives
The Library maintains full image newspaper archives in microform formats. These are kept in cabinets at both Webster and Vanier, organized by call number. Equipment to view the images, print and save is available for use in each library.
Should the title you need not be listed in the guide, please perform an advanced search in the Sofia Discovery tool by title of the newspaper, and limit the search to "Journal, magazine".
If you need help, please contact a librarian
Library holdings for selected Canadian newspapers by title
- Calgary Herald online
- Chronicle-Herald (Halifax) microform | online
- Daily News (Halifax) online
- Le Devoir microform and paper | online
- Le Droit (Ottawa) online
- Edmonton Journal microform | online
- Montreal Gazette microform | paper | online
- Globe and Mail microform | paper | online
- Guardian (Charlottetown) microform | online
- Kingston Whig-Standard online
- Leader Post (Regina) microform | online
- National Post microform and paper | online
- Ottawa Citizen microform | online
- La Presse microform | online
- Province (Vancouver) online
- Le Soleil (Quebec City) microform | online
- Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon) online
- Sudbury Star online
- Telegram (St. John's, NFLD) microform | online
- Telegraph Journal (St. John, NB) online
- Times-Colonist (Victoria) online
- Toronto Star microform | online
- Vancouver Sun microform | online
- Windsor Star online
- Winnipeg Free Press microform | online
Historical archives on the Web
- Google News Archive
Full image scans of U.S and Canadian newspapers including selected coverage of the Montreal Herald, Montreal Gazette, Montreal Daily Witness. Issues and years included vary with the newspaper. - BANQ:Revues et journaux Quebecois
A collection of digitized historical Quebec newspapers and periodicals. Dates and coverage vary with the title. Includes La Presse from 1968 to 2013 - French Canadian Newspapers: Essential historical resources 1808-1919
- Canadian Illustrated News
- Canadian War Museum, Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
- Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
- Multicultural Canada (SFU Digitized newspapers)
- BC Historical Newspapers
- Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive
- Prince George Newspapers
- British Colonist (Victoria) 1858-1951)
- University of Alberta. Peel's Prairie Provinces, Newspapers 1871-2013
- Early Alberta newspapers
- Saskatchewan Historical Newspapers Online
- INK-ODW (Ontario)
- Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online
- The New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Project (from UNB Libraries)
- The Guardian (Charlottetown)
- Memorial University of Newfoundland Digitized Archives
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
A searchable collection of digitized American newspapers from 1789-1922. - Newseum, Front Page Archives
- NewspaperCat: Catalogue of Digital Newspapers
- International Coalition on Newspapers: Newspaper Digitization Projects
An international directory of digitized newspapers listed by country and by state for U.S.