Start with these full text databases to find historical newspaper articles in Canadian newspapers. Other sources can be found using the indexes under the Indexes and Guides tab.
Start with these full text databases to find historical newspaper articles in international newspapers.
The focus of this guide is English-language newspapers. For historical newspapers in Asian languages, consult with the librarians at the Asian Library.
The South China Morning Post - an English language newspaper published in Hong Kong - is renowned for its authoritative and influential reporting on Hong Kong, China and all of Asia. It is highly regarded by researchers because of the unique history of Hong Kong as well as the newspaper’s editorial perspective on Imperial Japan and Communist China. With searchable, full text coverage from South China Morning Post’s origin in 1903 up to and including 1997, users will be able to search the entirety of the newspaper including advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and photographs that illuminate history as much as the news articles.
British Columbia
The majority of BC historical newspapers are available in microformat and are listed in the library catalogue. Ask for help at the Reference Desk at Koerner Library. Consult the Union Catalogue of British Columbia Newspapers to find titles of newspapers published in BC, then search the catalogue to determine if we have the title in our collection.
Canada
US/International