TMU Libraries Omni Search
TMU Libraries Omni Search
For optimum use, sign in. This search engine searches for journal articles (many are available electronically), books, e-books, theses and dissertations, and newspaper articles from some recent and a selection of archival newspapers. It indexes digitized content such as out-of-copyright books and journals that are available from sources such as The Internet Archive and The Hathi Trust. Omni facilitates discovery and borrowing of print books from other universities in Ontario excluding the University of Toronto.
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For more advanced searching across a more targeted set of resources, you may want to try a discipline specific indexing/abstracting database or collection as listed in the next boxes.
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Key Indexing Resources
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America : History & LifeAmerica History and Life contains citations, with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
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CBCA CompleteThis database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
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CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals IndexCPI.Q is Gale’s award-winning full-text resource specifically designed to provide instant access to the most requested Canadian reference materials. Covering a wide range of disciplines, CPI.Q is the perfect one-stop resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
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C19: Nineteenth Century IndexC19 Index is a bibliographic database for 19th century research, providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. Users can query collections simultaneously, or can conduct more detailed research using collection specific search screens.
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This collection provides access to renowned databases such as PAIS and WPSA, covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.
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Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of Indigenous Peoples in North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. This resource contains more than 141,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Formerly known as Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA).
Digital Collections (Access Restricted to TMU Community)
- Canadiana This link opens in a new window
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Canadiana is a bilingual digital library of primary (source) documents of early Canadian printed publications including books, annuals and periodicals. Over 1,300 sources (including 350 titles from outside the U.S.) are indexed and abstracted. Of these, 600 are available in full text.
Formerly known as Early Canadiana Online. - Canadiana Heritage Project This link opens in a new window
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The Héritage project is a 10-year initiative to digitize and make accessible online some of Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 60 million pages of primary-source documents. Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for Canadian historians, students, and genealogists. - Champlain Society Digital Collection (Archive) This link opens in a new window
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The Champlain Society Archives is a collection of volumes from the Champlain Society that deal with exploration and discovery over three centuries. It includes first-hand accounts of Samuel de Champlain's voyages in New France, the diary from Sir John Franklin's first land expedition to the Arctic, plus many other fascinating stories.
Archives includes all available titles for the Champlain Society:
- Occasional Papers of the Champlain Society
- The Publications of the Champlain Society, Hudson's Bay Company Series
- The Publications of the Champlain Society, Ontario Series
- The Publications of the Champlain Society
- The Works of Samuel de Champlain
- Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
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Early Encounters in North America contains over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700. - Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
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The Archives of Sexuality and Gender from Gale provides a significant collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history. - Empire Online This link opens in a new window
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This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology. - English Historical Documents This link opens in a new windowEnglish Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500 to 1914. This includes American Colonial Documents, which was previously out of print. The online version of the standard series of primary source documents in British history, conceived in wartime and with volumes published since 1953, can also be found here.Sources include government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters and diaries. It covers political and constitutional topics and social, economic, religious and cultural history.
- Maclean's Magazine Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Maclean’s Magazine Digital Archive, offering content from 1905-2015, a Canadian news and general interest magazine, provides a unique perspective on both national and international affairs. Topics include investigative reporting, opinion and analysis on politics, economy and business, science and technology, society, arts and culture, education and work. It was initially known as then The Busy Man’s Magazine from 1896-1911, with a couple of 1905 issues published as The Business Magazine, and then changed to the current title, Maclean’s, in 1911. - North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window
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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories includes 2,162 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, so providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. - North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
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This fifth release of North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. - North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. - Oral History Online This link opens in a new window
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Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,500 collections of Oral History in English from around the world.
The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 271,000 pages of full-text by some 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 3,000 audio and video files and over 17,000 bibliographic records. - Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
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This resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Documents are presented alongside contextual essays contributed by leading academics in the field; each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses. - British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Bearing witness to what many scholars consider the three most significant events in world history – The American Revolution, The French Revolution and The Industrial Revolution – this resource features: Full-text search capabilities; Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles; Works by both well-known and lesser-known authors. Toronto Metropolitan has both original ECCO and ECCO 2. - Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
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This database brings together journals printed between 1693 and 1799 illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. They offer effective coverage of the important issues of the period, and are invaluable to the study of all aspects of the eighteenth century, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections. - Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012. - Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Includes the Canadian magazine Chatelaine (1928-2005)
Archival Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald, 1883-2010 This link opens in a new window
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The Calgary Herald is the largest and oldest daily newspaper in Alberta. Its first publication was as a mining and ranch weekly in 1883 at the height of Western Expansion and the Nation Building period. The coverage gives insight into Canadian history in the early 20th century and important reporting of international, national, provincial, and local events. Other notable coverage includes the first Calgary Stampede in 1912 and the development of the petroleum industry in Alberta and throughout Canada.
Coverage: 1883 - 2010 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1844 - 2020 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Montreal Gazette, 1785-2010 This link opens in a new window
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The Montreal Gazette is Montreal’s only surviving English language newspaper, as well as the oldest daily still in print in all of Canada. Originally founded as The Gazette, the paper offers much insight into Canadian history in the late 19th Century as well as important coverage of international, national, provincial, and local events. Coverage includes past events of current historical landmarks such as the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal, Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, and the Old Port of Montreal. The paper gives insight into the commercial, social, and cultural life of the future city of Montreal.
Coverage: 1785 - 2010 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1894 - 2021 - Canadiana This link opens in a new window
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Canadiana is a bilingual digital library of primary (source) documents of early Canadian printed publications including books, annuals and periodicals. Over 1,300 sources (including 350 titles from outside the U.S.) are indexed and abstracted. Of these, 600 are available in full text.
Formerly known as Early Canadiana Online.
There are numerous initiatives to digitize the text of local newspapers as well as the photographs and negatives of newspapers and news agencies. Additionally, the amount of indexing of historic newspapers continues to increase.Some relevant initiatives follow:
General
- Canada Gazette (1941-1997)(1998-) via Library and Archives Canada
- CanGenealogy Historical Newspapers
- Multicultural History Society of Ontario - Newspaper Holdings on Microfilm
Western Canada including the Yukon
- Alberta Legislature Library Scrapbook Hansard
- Brandon (Man.) Newspapers short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced search, Subject contains ...)
- British Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1858-1980 from the University of Victoria Libraries; later merged with Victoria Times to create the Victoria Times-Colonist.
- British Columbia Historical Newspapers from the University of British Columbia, UBC Library
- Calgary (Alta.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Daily Herald (Nanaimo, B.C.) [1913-1920] 20 issues from Canadiana
- Daily News (Prince Rupert, B.C.) [1911-1922] 31 issues from Canadiana
- Dawson (Yukon) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Edmonton (Alta.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Fernie Free Press (B.C.) [1899-1925] from Canadiana
- Nelson (B.C.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Our Future Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project - includes a newspaper section
- Peel's Praririe Provinces: Newspapers section
- Regina (Sask.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana
- Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online from the Saskatchewan Archives Board
- Saskatchewan News Index from the University of Saskatchewan Library
- Saskatoon (Sask.) Newspapers short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection from the University of Lethbridge Library
- Times (Medicine Hat, Alta) [1905-1910] five issues available from Canadiana
- Vancouver (B.C.) Newspapers short runs of assorted labour and other newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Vancouver Semi-weekly World [1895] 1 issue from Canadiana
- Vancouver Weekly World [1895] 47 issues from Canadiana
- Victoria (B.C.) Newspapers short and long runs of assorted newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana
- Victoria Newspapers 1858-1921 - an index of historical Victoria newspapers
- Victoria Times [1895-1911] 1664 issues available from Canadiana
- Victoria Weekly Times [1893-1895] 120 issues available from Canadiana
- Western Clarion (Vancouver, BC) [1903-1914] 4 issues available from Canadiana
- Western Socialist (Vancouver, BC) [1903] 1 issue available from Canadiana
- Winnipeg (Man.) Newspapers mostly short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana; the Winnipeg Free Press record is not part of the Canadiana collection (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
Ontario
- Brantford (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- The Evening Journal (St. Catharines, Ont.) [1919-1920] 170 issues available from Canadiana
- The Freeholder (Cornwall, Ont.) [1916] one issue available from Canadiana
- The Globe and Mail photographic archive fonds (1922-1953) at the City of Toronto Archives. Almost 32,000 of the 140,000 negatives have been digitized.
- Goderich (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Guelph (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Hamilton (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Kingston (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Kitchener (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 including from the time it was called Berlin, from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- London (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Niagara Argus [1846] one issue available from Canadiana
- Ontario Community Newspapers portal
- Ottawa (Ont.) Newspapers short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Our Digital World: Newspaper Collections including Ontario community newspapers
- St. Thomas (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Toronto (Ont.) Newspapers most of these are short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana; includes the Provincial Freeman
- Toronto Telegram (1876-1971) The photographic archive of "The Tely" is being digitized by York University's Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. Inventory of the Toronto Telegram Fonds
- Woodstock (Ont.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
Quebec
- Bibliothèque et archives nationale du Québec, BAnQ numérique (digital collections includes some newspapers such as Le Devoir)
- Montreal (Québec) Newspapers chiefly short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Québec (Québec) Newspapers chiefly short runs prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Trois-Rivières (Québec) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Canadiana also has some issues of papers from Sherbrooke, Hull, and Shawinigan
Atlantic Canada
- Amherst (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Annapolis Spectator (N.S.) [1883-1903] three issues from Canadiana
- Baddeck (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Bridgewater Bulletin (N.S.) [1902] one issue available from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Campbellton (N.B.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- The Casket (Antigonish, N.S.) [1860-1907] 35 issues from Canadiana
- Charlottetown (P.E.I.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Fredericton (N.B.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Glace Bay (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Halifax (N.S.)--Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Island Newspapers from the University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson Library
- Kentville (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Lunenburg (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Memorial University Libraries, Centre for Newfoundland Studies Newspapers guide - includes links to digitized papers
- Miramichi (N.B.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana
- New Brunswick Irish Portal: Newspapers from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- New Glasgow (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers from the Nova Scotia Archives
- Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers from the Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University
- Saint John (N.B.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- St. Andrew's (N.B.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- St. John's (N.L.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Sydney (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Sydney Mines Star (N.S.) [1905] one issue from Canadiana
- Truro (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana (searched using Omni, Advanced, Subject contains...)
- Yarmouth (N.S.) Newspapers prior to 1930 from Canadiana
The Google News Archive was live from 2006-2011. The addition of new content and access to the home page was discontinued in August 2011 according to an entry in Wikipedia. You can still browse the content of the Google News Archive but the search function is far from ideal.
See also Carol Singer's extensive guide from Bowling Green State University Library: Historical Canadian Newspapers Online
Current and Recent Newspapers
- Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
Search for individual newspapers and journals by title from our A-Z list of journal titles