Canadian Territories Online Historical Newspapers Summary

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(This page's most recent update is December 2024)
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Although the three Canadian territories of Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon make up almost 40% of the landmass, they total less than one-half of one percent of the country’s population. There are of course newspapers available, and online historical newspapers are sparse. But there are a few.

Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. 

So go for it – find your “Territorial” ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also, I suspect that some of these links may change over time – so if there is a dead link – please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. 

Free Sites:

Territory-wide Collections:

Canadiana Online

• Dawson, Klondike morning times
• Dawson, Semi-Weekly Klondike nugget
• Dawson, The Daily Klondike Nugget
• Dawson, The Klondike News
• Dawson, The Klondike nugget
• Dawson, The Semi-Weekly nugget
• Dawson, Yukon daily morning world
• Rosthern, St. Peter’s Bote

​Other Free Sites:

• Iqaluit (Nunavut) – Nunatsiaq News
• Dawson (Yukon) – Dawson Daily News
• Dawson (Yukon) – Dawson Record
• Dawson (Yukon) – The Daily Morning Sun
• Dawson (Yukon) – The Yukon Sun
• Dawson (Yukon) – The Yukon World
• Whitehorse (Yukon) – The Weekly Star
• Whitehorse (Yukon) – White Horse Star

For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historical newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page.​​

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There are currently 2 publications available at this site. It is the Canada Newspapers

Paper of Record:

There are currently 2 publications available at this site. See the titles at Paper of Record – Yukon

Newspapers,com:

There are currently 6 publications available for Yukon and 3 publications available for Northwest Territories

And Finally:

You might want to check out the Yukon Genealogy site occasionally to see what is available online or otherwise. 

Please note – even more may be available via a local library where a library card is required. And of course, there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.

For more links for different states, provinces, and countries – please see the Newspaper Links page on this website.​​