Searching Specific Newspapers
The Library provides access to the paywalled websites of the Toronto Star as well as access to the back issues of major Canadian and international newspapers via our Historical Newspaper Databases.
The Toronto Star
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Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
The Toronto Star is a multi-platform news organization that makes things happen. They inform, connect, investigate, report and effect change. The purpose of the Toronto Star is to keep customers informed about what matters most to them, to help make their life, community, country and world better.
Please note: Students, staff & faculty no longer need to have sign up for a personal subscription. You should be able to access the Toronto Star directly via the library. Personalization, etc is not recommended. Students, staff & faculty with accounts can still use their account until it expires but you will no longer be able to renew those accounts with the new access method.
Historic Newspaper Databases
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
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 - 2022 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
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 - 2021 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald This link opens in a new window
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: Montreal Gazette This link opens in a new window
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: New York Times This link opens in a new window
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: 1851 - 2021 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
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: 1889 - 2013 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Washington Post, The This link opens in a new window
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: 1877-2008 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper, Chicago Defender 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: 1909 - 1975 -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India, The This link opens in a new window
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: 1838 - 2011 -
Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019 This link opens in a new window
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is available, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to aid searching.
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British Library Newspapers, Part I & II: 1800-1900 This link opens in a new window
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, this resource delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the nineteenth. These newspapers, emerging during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history.
Searching Within Historic Newspaper Databases
All historic newspaper databases will allow you to filter your searches by date, helping you narrow your results. Some newspaper databases will also let you filter your results by "document type" or by "illustrated works." This can help you specify that you are searching just advertisements, obituaries, classified ads, photographs, editorials, and more.
ProQuest Historic Newspaper Databases
To search by document type within the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, or the Times of India, use the Document Type drop down box that appears on the left side menu on the search results screen.
Gale Historic Newspaper Databases
To search by document type within the Times (London) or the British Library Newspapers collection, use the Document Type or Illustrated Works drop down boxes that appears on the left side Search Limiters menu on the search results screen.
Canadiana Collection
The Serials collection on Canadiana includes a wide range of dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals in addition to popular magazines catering to various demographics: men, women, students, children, and diverse ethnolinguistic communities. The collection runs from the 1800s to 1930 and features almost seven hundred Canadian newspapers in a range of languages including English, French, Gaelic, Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Icelandic.
Canadiana also houses issues of the Chinese Times running from 1914 to 1992. The Chinese Times was a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in Vancouver, BC, which covered local events as well as news from China and across Asia. Published by the Chinese Freemasons Society of Canada, it was the longest-running newspaper in Canada’s largest Chinese community and continues to be a critical source of information for researchers studying Chinese history in Canada. Access the Chinese Times.