Digitized Historical Newspapers and Magazines: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island

New Brunswick

Telegraph Journal Archives

https://tj.news/subscribe

Searchable online archives going back to 1874. Nine newspapers represented. Requires subscription to access. 

University of New Brunswick Library

https://newspapers.lib.unb.ca/digital-titles

Free Digital Archives of several newspapers. Dates and places of publication vary.​

  • The Amaranth

  • British Colonist and Mechanics' And The Traders' Advocate

  • The Cartoon

  • City Gazette

  • Daily Mail (Fredericton, New Brunswick)

  • Herald (Saint John, New Brunswick)

  • Loyalist and Conservative Advocate

  • The New Brunswick Chronicle

  • New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser

  • The Pancuremata

  • The Penny Dip

  • The Polymorphian

  • Quip

  • Railway News

  • The Reporter and Temperance Journal

  • The Saint John Gazette and General Advertiser

  • The Saint John Mirror

  • The Secret

  • The Sentinel and New Brunswick General Advertiser

  • St. John Morning News and General Advertising Newspaper

  • Temperance Journal

  • Temperance Telegraph

  • The Times; or True Briton

  • Watchman

  • Weekly Chronicle

  • Weekly Chronicle (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

  • The West-Side Review

  • Woodstock Journal

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers - Halifax NS

https://novascotia.ca/archives/newspapers/

Free, digitized newspapers courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives. Issues are not keyword searchable.

Includes:

  • The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser (Halifax NS): Issues from 1769 to 1770.

  • The Royal American Gazette (Shelburne NS): Issues from 1785.

  • The Port-Roseway Gazetteer and The Shelburne Advertiser (Shelburne NS): Issues from 1785.

  • The Nova-Scotia Packet and General Advertiser (Shelburne NS): Issues from 1786 to 1787.

  • Acadian Recorder (Halifax NS): Issues from 1813 to 1853.

  • Liverpool Transcript (Liverpool NS): Issues from 1854 to 1867.

  • The Bee (Pictou NS): Issues from 1835 to 1838.

  • The Atlantic Advocate (Halifax NS): Issues from 1917.

  • An Solus Iuil (Sydney NS): Issues from 1925 to 1927. Gaelic language.

  • Fear na Ceilidh (Sydney NS): Issues from 1928 to 1930. Gaelic language.

  • Mosgladh: Issues from 1922 to 1933. Gaelic language.

  • Teachdaire Nan Gaidheal (Sydney NS): Issues from 1924 to 1934. Gaelic language.

  • The Tiny Tattler (Central Grove NS): Issues from 1933 to 1936 & 1938.

  • The 4th Estate (Halifax NS): Issues from 1969 to 1977.

Micmac News - Membertou First Nation NS

https://beatoninstitute.com/micmac-news

A free digitization of a newspaper that covered Indigenous issues regarding culture, community, politics and language (among other topics) during its run from 1965-1991. This digization covers the full period of publication but is incomplete and, additionally, is not keyword searchable. 

Prince Edward Island

Island Newspapers - Charlottetown PEI

http://www.islandnewspapers.ca/

A free, digitization of newspapers from Prince Edward Island. They are all keyword searchable.

            Includes:

  • British American (Charlottetown PEI): Issues from 1832 to 1833.

  • Morning News and Semi-Weekly Advertiser (Charlottetown PEI): Issues 1843 to 1846.

  • Haszard’s Gazette (Charlottetown PEI): Issues from 1851 to 1851.

  • The Guardian (Charlottetown PEI): Issues from 1890 to 1964.

  • Cadre (Charlottetown PEI): Issues from 1969 to 1977. University of Prince Edward Island student newspaper.

  • Gem (Charlottetown PEI): Issues from 1983 to 1990. University of Prince Edward Island student newspaper.