Newspapers: paper copies

Trent University Archives houses the following collections of original newspapers

• Regional newspaper collection: Scattered runs of local papers.
• Indigenous newspaper collection: Indigenous newspapers in print, primarily from the 1970s and 1980s.

Newspapers: microfilm

Researchers can also access local, national, and international newspapers on microfilm via the Bata Library service desk on the second floor. Check the Library's catalogue, OMNI, for more. 

Peterborough
Lindsay
Durham, Hastings and Ontario Counties
Belleville and Trenton
Toronto 
Western Ontario
Eastern Ontario
Quebec

For further information about access to newspapers, click here.

Peterborough Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Daily Examiner 1891-1905 (missing July 1, 1899-March 8, 1901)
• Evening Examiner 1905-1931
• Morning Times 1895; 1898-1912
• Peterborough Daily Examiner 1885-1891
• Peterborough Daily Review 1878-1920
• Peterborough Examiner Weekly 1862-1885
• Peterborough Examiner 1858-1862; 1932-present
• Peterborough Papers : (Miscellaneous: Dispatch, Chronicle, Gazette) ca. 1845-1852
• Peterborough Review 1858-1878
• Peterborough Times (weekly edition) 1872-1884
• Peterborough Times (daily edition) 1912-1914

Lindsay and Victoria County Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Canadian Post 1861-1898
• Evening Post 1900, 1920-1922
• Lindsay Post 1907-1920
• Lindsay Daily Post 1922-1986
• The Manvers Standard 1876
• Victoria Daily Standard 1870-1873
• Victoria Warder 1870-1899
• Watchman 1888-1899
• Watchman Warder 1899-1929 (merger of Victoria Warder and the Watchman)
• Weekly Post 1899-1907
• Weekly Free Press (Lindsay) 1908-1909
• See also: digitized Kawartha Lakes Newspapers (link provided through the courtesy of Kawartha Lakes Public Library)

Durham, Hastings and Ontario County Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Ajax Advertiser Ajax 1955-1983
• Beaverton Express 1882-1939
• Bobcaygeon Independent 1876-1937 (includes various other Bobcaygeon Papers)
• Campbellford Herald 1873-1900 (some issues missing)
• Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville) 1868-1900
• Cobourg Daily Star 1978-1986
• Cobourg Sentinel Cobourg 1861-1878
• Cobourg Star 1831-1849; 1868-1869
• Hastings 1929-1966 (includes various Hastings Newspapers)
• Hastings Observer 1886
• Hastings Star 1881-1934; 1934-1941 (reel also includes Hastings Press 1947-1952); 1973-1985
• Havelock Standard 1898-1974
• Millbrook Messenger 1874-1876
• Millbrook Reporter 1895-1923
• Pickering News 1887-1888; 1896-1898; 1900-1964
• Port Hope Guide 1855-1934 (includes Various other Port Hope Papers)
• Port Hope Telegraph and Newcastle Advertiser 1832 (includes Port Hope Warder and Constitutional Advocate)
• Port Hope Times and County of Durham British Canadian 1870-1906 (includes Port Hope Daily Times, 1870-1927)
• Port Hope Watchman and Durham & Northumberland Advertiser 1850-1852 (includes the British Ensign)

Belleville-Trenton Area Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Brighton Ensign 1895-1957
• Courier Advocate (Trenton) 1950-1960
• Daily Ontario (Belleville) 1910-1929
• Free Press Picton 1833-1834
• Hallowell Free Press (Picton) 1830-1833
• Hastings Chronicle (Belleville) 1850; 1855-1856; 1861-1867
• Daily Intelligencer Belleville 1901-1928
• Ontario Intelligencer Belleville 1930-1960
• Intelligencer Belleville 1862-1873 (includes Belleville and Hastings General Advertiser)
• Picton Gazette 1860-1873
• Trent Valley Advocate (Trenton) 1880-1881; 1884; 1886-1887
• Trenton Advocate 1889-1900
• Trenton Courier 1867-1919
• Trenton Courier Advocate 1926-1930; 1932-1935; 1937-1949
• Trentonian/Tri-county News 1957-1986
• Weekly Intelligencer Belleville 1902-1922
• Weekly Ontario and Bay of Quinte Chronicle Belleville 1910-1917; 1919-1925

Toronto Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Canadian Farmers' Sun 1892-96
• The Canadian Labour Reformer 1886-1887
• Colonial Advocate 1824-1834
• Constitution 1836
• Correspondent and Advocate 1833-1837
• Daily Leader 1853-1860
• Daily Mail and Empire 1895-1905 (Merger of the Daily Mail and the Empire)
• The Empire 1887-1895
• Examiner 1840-1855
• Farmers' Sun 1920-1930
• Financial Post Toronto 1907-Present
• Globe 1844-1936
• Globe and Mail 1936-Present (Merger of the Globe and the Mail and Empire)
• Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine; Microfiche set #1459
• Independent 1849-1850
• Leader 1870-1878
• MacKenzie's Weekly Message 1852-1869
• The Mail 1872-1880
• Nation 1874-1876
• North American 1850-1855
• Northern Miner Toronto 1915-Present
• Ontario Workman 1872-1873
• The Patriot 1832-1840
• Quill and Quire Toronto 1935-Present
• Sunday Star 1978-1980
• Toiler 1902-1904
• Toronto Daily Leader 1860-1869
• Toronto Daily Mail 1880-1895
• Toronto Native Times 1970-1978
• Toronto Patriot 1840-1844
• Toronto Star 1968-Present
• Toronto Telegram 1910-1913
• Upper Canada Gazette 1793-1848
• The Week 1883-1896
• Weekly Sun 1897-1919
• Welland Canal 1835

Western Ontario Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Brant County Herald Brantford 1857-1858
• Evening Palladium Hamilton 1884-1886
• Hamilton Gazette 1852-1855
• Labour Advocate Hamilton 1883-1910 (includes various Hamilton Labour Newspapers)
• London Advertiser London 1896-1906
• London Free Press London 1874-1916
• Niagara Peninsula Papers 1799-1910 (includes various papers from the Niagara Region)
• Palladium of Labour Hamilton 1883-1884
• St. Catharines Papers 1832-1875 (includes St. Catharine's Evening Journal and other papers)
• St. Catharines Farmers' Journal and Welland Canal Intelligencer St. Catharines 1826-1830
• St. Thomas Liberal St. Thomas 1832-1833
• Windsor Herald Windsor 1855-1856
• Woodville Advocate 1878-1888

Eastern Ontario Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Bathurst Courier (Perth/Ottawa) 1834-1855
• Brockville Gazette 1828-1832
• Brockville Recorder 1830-1849
• Bytown Gazette (Ottawa) 1836-1845
• Chronicle and Gazette (Kingston) 1833-1845 (includes Kingston Commercial Advertiser)
• Daily British Whig (Kingston) 1851-1853
• Kingston Chronicle 1819-1832
• Kingston Gazette 1810-1818
• Ottawa Citizen 1846-1892
• Ottawa Times 1865-1877
• Perth Courier 1855-1873

Quebec Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• L'Avenir Montreal 1847-1857
• Montreal Herald Montreal 1863-1873
• Montreal Star Montreal 1869-1921
• Montreal Star Montreal Jan-June, 1978
• Montreal Star Montreal Feb-Sept, 1979
• New Dominion Monthly Montreal 1867-1971; 1874-9