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Canadian Historical News Databases

Calgary Herald (1883-2010)
Cover to cover access of international, national, provincial, and local events from 125 years of the Calgary Herald, the largest and oldest daily newspaper in Alberta. This resource is available freely to all Albertans.
Toronto Star: 1894-2020
The digitized full-image version of the complete contents of the Toronto Star newspaper from 1894 - 2008.
Globe and Mail (1844-2018)
Archive of the Globe and Mail newspaper dating back to the pre-Confederation era.

BC Historical Newspapers
Digitized versions of historical papers from around the province from 1859 to 1995.
Saskatchewan Historical Newspapers Online
Coverage from 1878 to the 1960s.
Peel's Prairie Provinces
Newspapers, books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies. Search newspapers by town. Coverage from 1871 to 2013.
Historical Canadian Newspapers Online
Includes free online historical newspapers for all the provinces and Yukon, largely via the Google News Archive.
Maclean's Magazine
Digitized full-image version of the complete contents of "Canada's national magazine" from 1905 to 2005.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. Discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
This resource has been developed with, and has only been made possible by, the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.
Canadiana Online
Canadian primary source content, includes books, magazines and government documents published from the time of the first European settlers to the first half of the 20th century.

International Historical News Databases

African American Newspapers (1827-1998)
Newspapers from more than 35 states chronicling a century and a half, 1827-1998, of the African American experience.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003)
The Archive includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003.
Authorized users: Include any person within the geographically defined area of Alberta that can authenticate via IP address using the Gale Geo IP authentication service.

Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.
New York Times with Index (1851-)
Searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times with historical, local, regional, national and international news from 1851-
Times Digital Archive: 1785-2014
An online, full-text facsimile of every complete page of every issue of The Times over a span of 200 years, from 1785 to 2014.
Over 200 years of full-text, facsimile articles from The Times newspaper, providing access to more than 12 million articles from 1785 onwards. Articles are presented as original page images with full-text search capability, allowing readers to view them as they appeared in print
Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.
Time Magazine Archive
An extensive full-text collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
Life Magazine Archive
An extensive full-text collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.
Independent Historical Archive: 1986-2012
Complete archives of the major British daily newspaper from its beginnings in 1986.
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Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.
Sunday Times Historical Archive: 1822-2006
Provides full-text access to the well-known British newspaper from 1822-2006.
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Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.
Telegraph Historical Archive: 1855-2000
Access to pages of content and includes the Sunday edition from its inception in 1961. Covers the lifespan of the publication, nearly 150 years.
Authorized users: Include any person within the geographically defined area of Alberta that can authenticate via IP address using the Gale Geo IP authentication service.

Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.
British Library Newspapers (1800-1900)
Content ranging from early tabloids to radical papers covering more than 160 newspaper titles from the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Publications span a vast range of national, regional, and local interests and include various notable papers and writers.
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Data mining: Licensed content available via text and data mining hard drives available from the Library for use in accordance to terms of use.

Scholarly sharing: Allowed with adherence to MRU's fair dealing guidelines.

Google News Archive

Newspaper Archive
Online images of pages from American and Canadian local newspapers. Coverage for individual newspapers varies.

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British Pathe Archival Newsreel Collection
Collection of archival newsreel footage. Includes Reuters historical news collection.

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