Manitoba is one of the Canadian provinces that has a single central online repository for searching historical newspapers. Also, there are several free publications available on other sites and there are collections available on subscription sites. 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 Manitoba 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.
(Updated August 2022; recently added links are in BOLD)
Free Sites:
Provincewide Collections:
Peel’s Prairie Provinces – Newspapers 1871-1897
University of Manitoba Libraries Digital Newspapers
- Brandon Daily Sun
- Brandon Sun Weekly
- Courrier du Nord-Ouest
- Czas (The Times)
- Daily Nor’Wester
- Echo du Manitoba
- La Liberté
- Le Manitoba
- Le Métis
- Libre Parole
- Manitoba Free Press
- Manitoba Gazette
- Manitoba Herald
- Manitoba Liberal
- Manitoba News-Letter
- Manitoban and Northwest Herald
- Minnedosa Tribune
- Morning Telegram
- New Nation
- Nor’Wester (1859)
- Nor’Wester (1874)
- One Big Union
- Ouest Canadien
- Portage la Prairie Weekly
- Psychic News
- Quiz
- Red River Pioneer
- Standard
- Strikers Defense Bulletin
- The Enlightener
- The Manitoban
- The People’s Voice
- The Voice
- The Western Star
- The Winnipeg Socialist
- The Winnipeg Tribune
- Western Labor News
- Winnipeg Citizen
- Winnipeg Daily Sun
- Winnipeg Telegram Strike Editions
Google News Archive
- Brandon – Brandon Daily Mail
- Brandon – Brandon Mail
- Saint Boniface – Le Manitobia
- Saint Boniface – Le Metis
- Winnipeg – Canadian Jewish Chronicle
- Winnipeg – Jewish Post and News
- Winnipeg – Jewish Post & News
- Winnipeg – Le Manitoba
- Winnipeg – Le Metis
- Winnipeg – Manitoba Gazette/ Gazette de Manitoba
Pembina Manitou Newspaper Archives
- Antique Power
- Baldur Gazette
- Belmont Eye
- Belmont News
- Belmont Star
- Brandon Blade
- Brandon Daily Mail
- Brandon Independence
- Brandon Independent
- Brandon Mail
- Canadian Industrial Equipment News
- Canadian Machinery
- Carman Dufferin Leader
- Carman Standard
- Carman Valley Leader
- Cartwright Noble Deeds
- Cartwright Rock Lake Review
- Cartwright Southern Manitoba Review
- Country Guide
- Crystal City Courier
- Cypress River Western Prairie
- Darlingford Comet
- Die Mennonitische POST
- Elm Creek Mail
- Emerson Daily International
- Emerson Daily Manitoban
- Emerson International
- Emerson Journal
- Engineers and Engines
- Etude Music Magazine
- Family Herald
- Gas Engine Magazine
- Glenboro Gazette
- Glenboro Western Prairie Gazette
- Grain Growers Guide
- Hearth and Home
- Holland Observer
- Holmfield Press
- Iron-Men Album
- LaRiviere Times
- Le Courrier du Nord Ouest
- Manitoba Gazette
- Manitoba Herald
- Manitoba Pageant
- Manitou Advance
- Manitou Independent
- Manitou Mercury
- Manitou Sun
- Manitou Western Canadian
- Milepost
- Morden Chronicle
- Morden Empire
- Morden Herald
- Morden Manitoba News
- Morden Monitor
- Morris Herald
- Nelsonville Manitoba Mountaineer
- Nor-west Farmer
- Pilot Mound Sentinel
- Pilot Mound Signal
- RCMP Quarterly
- Red River Pioneer
- Rumely Oil Pull Magazine
- Somerset Century
- South Central Banner
- Southern Manitoba Times
- Swan Lake Echo
- Swan Lake Echo and Somerset News
- The Quiz
- Treherne Times
- Wawanesa Enterprise
- Wawanesa World
- Western People
- Winnipeg Standard
- Winnipeg: The New Nation
Winnipeg Sun Archive (Sun Media Newspapers in MB Archive) (in library only)
- Winnipeg Sun
- Altona Red River Valley Echo
- Beausejour Review
- Carman Valley Leader
- Interlake Spectator
- Lac du Bonnet Leader
- Morden Times
- Portage La Prairie Daily Graphic
- Selkirk Journal
- Stonewall Argus
- Winkler Times
Multi-Cultural Canada
(from Simon Fraser University – publications across Canada in several languages, many with Manitoba articles and references)
- Al-Hilāl
- C. District Union News
- C. Saturday Sunset
- Bavarijas Latviesu Vestnesis
- Berliner Journal
- British Columbia Federationist
- Brivais Latvietis
- Canadan Uutiset
- Canadian India Times
- Canadian Jewish News
- Canadian Jewish Review
- Celtic Connection
- Chinatown News
- Chinese Canadian Community News
- Chinese Express
- Courrier Sud
- Crescent
- El Popular
- Fisherman Publishing Society Newspaper
- Hung Chung She Po
- Jewish Western Bulletin
- Kanadai Magyar Munkas
- L’ Ami du Peuple
- Latvija Amerika
- Le Courrier d’Essex
- Le Courrier d’Outaouais
- Le Cri de l’ est
- Le Cultivateur
- Le Rempart
- Le Soleil de Colombie
- Liekki
- Meie Elu
- Messenger
- Minchung Sinmun
- Modern Times Weekly
- On the Level
- Ottawa Chinese Community Newsletter
- Shing Wah Daily News
- Tairiku Jiho = The Continental Times
- The Chinese Times
- The Commentator
- The New Canadian
- The Peak
- Vaba Eestlane
- Vapaus
- Vestnik
- Voice of Pakistan
- Zhyttia I Slovo
- Zwiazkowiec
County/Region and Library Collections:
Westman Region
Thompson Public Library Newspapers
- Citizen
- Nickel Belt
- Thompson Times
Student Collections:
Brandon University – Brandon
Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface – Winnipeg
Red River College – Winnipeg
University of Winnipeg – Winnipeg
Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:
- Canada – Winnipeg
- Chervonyi prapor – Winnipeg
- Den Skandinaviske Canadiensaren – Winnipeg
- Educational Journal of Western Canada – Winnipeg
- Heimir – Winnipeg
- Heimskringla – Winnipeg
- Heimskringla og öldin – Winnipeg
- Heimskringla – Winnipeg
- Kanada = Canada – Winnipeg
- Kanadai Magyar Ujság – Winnipeg
- Khata – Winnipeg
- L’agriculteur – Saint Boniface
- L’annonceur du Nord-Ouest – St. Boniface
- Le Soleil de l’Ouest – Winnipeg
- Le Trappeur – Winnipeg
- Les Cloches de Saint-Boniface – Saint Boniface
- Les grelots de Saint-Boniface – St. Boniface
- Manitoba and North West illustrated quarterly – Winnipeg
- Pravoslavnyi vistnik – Winnipeg
- Robochyi narod – Winnipeg
- The aurora – Middle Church
- The Brandon Daily News – Brandon
- The Brandon Weekly Sun – Brandon
- The Canadian North West – Winnipeg
- The Colonist – Winnipeg
- The Commercial – Winnipeg
- The Confederate – Brandon
- The Grain Growers’ Guide – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba and North-West Monthly – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba and West Canada Lancet – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba Good Templar – winnipeg
- The Manitoba Law Journal and Law Reports – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba Liberal – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba Messenger – Winnipeg
- The Manitoba Trade Review – Winnipeg
- The Manitoban – Winnipeg
- The Northwest Review – Winnipeg
- The school times – Winnipeg
- The Western Churchman – Winnipeg
- The Western home monthly – Winnipeg
- The Western Missionary – Winnipeg
- The Western School Journal – Winnipeg
- The Winnipeg real estate register – Winnipeg
- Väktaren – Winnipeg
- Vox Wesleyana – Winnipeg
- Waghorn’s Guide – Winnipeg
For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historic newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page.
Other Free Sites:
Winnipeg
Subscription or Pay Sites:
Ancestry.com:
There are currently 12 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – Manitoba Newspapers
Newspaper Archive:
There are currently 115 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – Manitoba
Newspapers.com:
There are currently 30 publications available on this site. See the title at Newspapers.com – Manitoba
Paper of Record:
There are currently 2 publications available on this site. See the titles at Paper of Record – Manitoba
And Finally:
Please note – even more may be available via a local or provincial 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.
For all Free Manitoba Links, click on the category of interest:
Newspapers
Obituaries
BMD Records
Photos
Yearbooks
Directories
4 replies on “Manitoba Online Historical Newspapers Summary”
Great stuff – but can someone point me in the right direction to get either good resolution scans of wholes pages or a way of getting articles that have been missed from the serach box (eg article on page 1 comes up in a search as a pdf file but the continuation on page 3 dosent appear to have been done)
Thanks
Looking for online resources for the now defunct Der Nordwesten begun about 1889 in Winnipeg by Wilhelm Hespler – later Kanada Kurier (when it ceased ca 2004) It was the LONGEST running German newspaper in Canada. Only LAC and Manitoba Legislative Library have microfilm copies for most of the run. Some other libraries will have some issues. Kanada Kurier published Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, and a few other locations. Have asked several sources why it has yet to be digitised (other than the cost which for such a long run would be expensive) But you missed listing it In the late 1940s and early 1950s it listed all the German immigrants coming to Canada on the Beaverbrae…..
Looking for online resources for the now defunct Der Nordwesten begun about 1889 in Winnipeg by Wilhelm Hespler .
The Winnipeg Free Press should be scanned as grayscale not bitmap. The photos look terrible. The newspaper should be rescanned.