Community Studies

CBU has access to print copies of the Cape Breton Post, as well as microfilm of older copies(6 months of before). 1901-1973 are available through Google News Archive (linked).

One of the major newspapers in Nova Scotia, the Chronicle Herald has been in operation since 1874. We have access from 2014 to present, and citations going back to 1982. Materials from 1880 to 2009 are available on microfilm in-library.

Archive.org has a number of newspapers digitized and made available for searching.

This listing offers the titles, publisher locations, ISSN, available dates, and location of many Indigenous newspapers. Links are included if the paper has been digitized and made available online.

A good source for current news in Canada, from a long-running public broadcaster.

A source for searching older news published by the CBC. Doesn't contain the full archives of CBC news, and includes many other items, but reflects the history and culture of Canada.

From the site: The Black Press in 19th-century Canada and Beyond is part of a broader interdiciplinary project - Canada's 19th Century Black Press and Trajectories of Exceptional Communication and Intellectual Activism - funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. It explores the decisive role played by Canada's Black Press in the design of cultural and race relations in Canada, and views the study of the Black Press as essential to an understanding of Canada's involvement in transatlantic intellectual activism.

The Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec (BANQ) has a number of historical newspapers digitized and available, including Le Devoir (1920-2011) and La Presse (1884-2017)

Digitized community newspapers from Ontario. Some papers are fully digitized, while some only note availability.

Simon Fraser University's collection of historical newspapers, including various British Columbia papers, as well as language- and culture-specific papers (e.g. Jewish Western Bulletin, Chinese Express, and Canadan Uutiset (Finnish).

University of British Columbia has digitized approximately 170 historical newspapers from communities across the province.

A resource featuring digitized books and magazines relating to the history of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound.

Duke University's repository featuring the rise of advertising and consumer culture in North America. As the time period is from 1850-1920, users should prepare themselves for problematic language.

The Truth in Journalism Project is a project to guide and advance fact-checking in journalism. Includes a full guide for undertaking the fact-checking process.