Newspapers: paper copies

Trent University Archives houses the following collections of original newspapers

• Regional newspaper collection: scattered runs of some original hard copy newspapers.
• Indigenous newspaper collection: Several Indigenous newspaper titles are included in this collection. The publications are dated primarily in the 1970's and 1980's and are, in most cases, Canadian in origin.

Newspapers: microfilm

Researchers can also access local, national, and international newspapers on microfilm via the Bata Library service desk on the second floor. Here is a select list.  Many more newspapers are available. Check the Library's catalogue, OMNI, for more. 

Peterborough
Lindsay
Durham, Hastings and Ontario Counties
Belleville and Trenton
Toronto 
Western Ontario
Quebec
Eastern Ontario
Atlantic Canada
Western Canada
North
Foreign

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

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

• Brighton Ensign Brighton 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 Picton 1860-1873
• Trent Valley Advocate Trenton 1880-1881; 1884; 1886-1887
• Trenton Advocate Trenton 1889-1900
• Trenton Courier Trenton 1867-1919
• Trenton Courier Advocate Trenton 1926-1930; 1932-1935; 1937-1949
• Trentonian/Tri-county News Trenton 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
• Colonial Advocate 1824-1834
• 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
• 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 Hamilton 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. Catherines Papers St. Catherines 1832-1875 (includes various papers)
• St. Catherines Farmers' Journal and Welland Canal Intelligencer St. Catherines 1826-1830
• St. Thomas Liberal St. Thomas 1832-1833
• Windsor Herald Windsor 1855-1856
• Woodville Advocate Woodville 1878-1888

Quebec Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• L'Avenir Montreal 1847-1857
• Le Canadien Quebec 1806-1825
• Le Courier du canada Quebec 1862-1873
• Le Devoir Montreal 1910-Present
• Gazette Montreal 1785-1877
• Gazette Montreal 1979-Present
• La Minerve Montreal 1826-1854
• Montreal Herald Montreal 1863-1873
• Montreal Star Montreal 1869-1921
• Montreal Star Montreal Jan-June, 1978
• Montreal Star Montreal Feb-Sept, 1979
• Morning Chronicle Quebec 1869-1873
• New Dominion Monthly Montreal 1867-1971; 1874-9
• L'Ordre Montreal 1858-1871
• La Patrie Montreal 1879-1920
• Le Pays Montreal 1862-1871
• Pilot Montreal 1844-1861
• La Presse Montreal 1959-1961; 1970 (film)
• La Presse Montreal 1988-1992 (Fiche set 1644)
• Revue Canadienne Montreal 1864-1922

Eastern Ontario Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Bathurst Courier Perth/Ottawa 1843-1855
• Brockville Gazette Brockville 1828-1832
• Brockville Recorder Brockville 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 Kingston 1819-1832
• Ottawa Citizen Ottawa 1846-1892
• Ottawa Times Ottawa 1865-1877
• Perth Courier Perth 1855-1873

Atlantic Canada Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Acadiensis St. John, N.B. 1901-1908
• British Colonist Halifax 1862-1873
• The Citizen Halifax 1874-1877
• Halifax Chronicle Herald Halifax 1960-1978
• Halifax Citizen Halifax 1863-1873
• Evening Mercury St. John's, NFLD 1882-1889
• Halifax Herald Halifax 1892-1948
• Halifax Morning Chronicle Halifax 1862-1879
• Islander Charlottetown 1842-1871
• Morning Chronicle Halifax 1869-1876
• Morning Freeman St. John 1851-1879
• Morning Herald Halifax 1880-1891
• Nova Scotian Halifax 1824-1870
• Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser St. John's, NFLD 1810-1885
• St. John Daily News St. John, N.B. 1863-1873
• St. John Weekly Freeman St. John, N.B. 1879-1884
• Telegraph Journal St. John's, NFLD 1824-1931
• Yarmouth Herald Yarmouth, N.S. 1833-1873

Western Canada Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Calgary Herald Calgary 1978-1980
• Calgary Eye Calgary 1902-1922
• Daily Colonist Victoria, B.C. 1858-1893
• Edmonton Bulletin Edmonton 1880-1906
• The Leader Regina 1890-1906
• Le Manitoba Winnipeg 1881-1925
• Metis Winnipeg 1871-1881
• Nor'wester Winnipeg 1859-1869
• Pedestal Vancouver 1969-1974
• Regina Leader Regina 1883-1890
• Regina Standard Regina 1891-1906
• Saskatchewan Herald Battleford (Sask) 1878-1900
• United Farmer Calgary 1922-1935
• Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg 1874-1921
• Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg 1932-1941

Northern Canada & Indigenous  People Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• Ammsa Edmonton 1983-1986
• Kainai News Standoff, Alta 1968-1969 (Note: over 600 issues of this newspaper dated 1968 to 1991 are available in digital format on the University of Lethbridge Library Web site. See: http://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/cdm/landingpage/collection/sanews ).
• Native Press Yellowknife, Nwt 1971-1974; 1977; 1979-1989
• Native Voice Vancouver 1946-Present
• News of the North Yellowknife 1969-Present
• Press Independent Somba K'e, Nwt 1990-Present
• Whitehorse Star Whitehorse, Yt. 1984-1993
• Windspeaker Edmonton, Alta 1986-Present

Foreign Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• The Australian  Australia 1983-1994
• BBC Home Service 9:00 P.M. News (Fiche set 1334) 1939-1945
• Christian Science Monitor 1967-1981
• Daily Telegraph London, U.K . 1978-1979
• Japan Times Japan 1897-1909
• London Gazette London, U.K. 1675-1900
• Le Monde Paris 1973-1995
• Oxford Gazette Oxford, U.K. 1665-1675
• Saturday Evening Post Philadelphia, US 1930-1945
• New York Times New York 1914-Present
• New York Review of Books New York 1963-1990
• Times London, U.K. 1785-1920; 1921-53 (hardcopies) 1954-Present
• Times Educational Supplement London, U.K. 1973-81
• Times Higher Educational Suppl. London, U.K. 1977-Present
• Times Literary Supplement London, U.K. 1965-Present

French Language Newspapers (on microfilm in the Bata Library)

• L'Avenir Montreal 1847-1857
• Le Canadien Quebec 1806-1825
• Le Courier de Canada Quebec 1862-1872
• Le Devoir Montreal 1910-Present
• Le Manitoba Winnipeg 1881-1925
• La Minerve Montreal 1826-1854
• Le Monde Paris 1973-Present
• Metis Winnipeg 1871-1881
• L'Ordre Montreal 1858-1871
• La Patrie Montreal 1879-1920
• Le Pays Montreal 1862-1871
• La Presse Montreal 1959-1961; 1970; 1988-1992 (fiche set #1644)
• Revue Canadienne Montreal 1864-1922