New Brunswick Online Historical Newspapers Summary

New Brunswick is one of the Canadian provinces that does not have a single central online repository for searching historical newspapers. However, there are several good size collections of historical newspapers. Also, there are quite a few free publications available on other sites and there are small 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 New Brunswick 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 September 2022; recently added links are in BOLD)

Free Sites:

Provincewide Collections:

New Brunswick Irish Newspapers

• New Brunswick Courier
• New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser
• New Brunswick Standard
• St. John Liberator Irish Advocate
• The Freeman
• The Gleaner and Northumberland, Kent, Gloucester and Restigouche Commercial and Agricultural Journal
• The Herald
• The Morning Freeman
• The New Dominion and True Humorist
• The New Freeman
• The Saint John Gazette and the Weekly Advertiser
• The St. John Daily Sun
• The Standard or Frontier Agricultural and Commercial Gazette
• The True Humorist
• The True Liberator
• Times

Google News Archive

• Edmunston – Journal La Republique 
• Edmunston – La Republique 
• Edmunston – Le Madawaska 
• Fredericton – The Capital 
• Fredericton – The Fredericton Evening Capital 
• Fredericton – The Fredericton Telegraph 
• Fredericton – The Head Quarters
• Fredericton – Newbrunswick Reporter 
• Miramichi – The Gleaner 
• Miramichi – The Mercury 
• Moncton – L’Acadien 
• Moncton – L’Evangeline 
• Moncton – La Voix d’Evangeline 
• Moncton – Le Progres L’Evangeline 
• Saint John – Christian Visitor
• Saint John – The Daily Evening Globe 
• Saint John – The Morning Freeman 
• Saint John – The Morning Telegraph 
• Saint John – The New Dominion and True Humorist
• Saint John – The New Dominion True Humorist
• Saint John – Royal St. John’s Gazette 
• Saint John – Saint John Daily Evening News 
• Saint John – Saint John Daily News 
• Saint John – Saint John Daily Sun 
• Saint John – Saint John Gazette 
• Saint John – Saint John Morning News 
• Saint John – St. John Sun 
• Saint John – St. John’s Gazette 
• St. Andrews – St. Andrews Bay Pilot 

UNB Libraries – New Brunswick Historical Newspapers Online

• Campbellton, The Restigouche Telephone
• Chatham, Colonial Times
• Chatham, The Gleaner and Northumberland, Kent and Gloucester Schediasma
• Dalhousie, Chaleur Zephyr
• Eel Ground, Eel Ground Times
• Fredericton, Butler’s Journal
• Fredericton, Daily Mail (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1910)
• Fredericton, Loyalist and Conservative (Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1846)
• Fredericton, Loyalist and Conservative Advocate (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1843)
• Fredericton, New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser
• Fredericton, New Brunswick Reporter and Temperance Journal (1888)
• Fredericton, Northside This Week
• Fredericton, Temperance Journal (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1885)
• Fredericton, The Amaranth (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1850)
• Fredericton, The Daily Herald
• Fredericton, The Head Quarters
• Fredericton, The Liberal Review
• Fredericton, The Reporter and Temperance Journal (1888)
• Fredericton, The Semi-Weekly Mail
• Fredericton, The Sentinel and New Brunswick General Advertiser
• Fredericton, The Star (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1879)
• Fredericton, The Weekly Gleaner
• Fredericton, The Weekly Herald
• Fredericton, Watchman (Fredericton, New Brunswick: 1833)
• Glassville, The Glassville News
• Grand Falls (Grand Sault), Victoria County News (Grand Falls, New Brunswick: 1900)
• Grand Falls, Grand Falls Gazette
• Hillsborough, Eastern Advocate
• Moncton, Acadie dimanche
• Moncton, Church Guardian
• Moncton, The Daily Leader
• Moncton, The Times (Moncton, New Brunswick: 1868)
• Moncton, The Weekly Times (Moncton, New Brunswick)
• Petitcodiac, The Pancuremata
• Saint John, British Colonist and Mechanics’ And The Traders’ Advocate
• Saint John, Canadian Record
• Saint John, Christian Visitor
• Saint John, City Gazette
• Saint John, Colonial Empire
• Saint John, Evening Times
• Saint John, Herald (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1838)
• Saint John, Liberal Notes
• Saint John, Loyalist and Conservative (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1846)
• Saint John, New Brunswick Courier
• Saint John, Presbyterian Advocate
• Saint John, Quip
• Saint John, Railway News
• Saint John, Saint John Globe
• Saint John, Saint John Weekly Globe (1860)
• Saint John, Semi Weekly Sun
• Saint John, Semi Weekly Telegraph and News (1910)
• Saint John, St. John Centennial Advertiser
• Saint John, St. John Morning News and General Advertising Newspaper (1841)
• Saint John, Temperance Telegraph (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1844)
• Saint John, The Cartoon
• Saint John, The Daily Journal
• Saint John, The Liberal News (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1904)
• Saint John, The Maritime Broadcaster
• Saint John, The New Brunswick Chronicle
• Saint John, The Penny Dip
• Saint John, The Polymorphian
• Saint John, The Saint John Gazette and General Advertiser (1799)
• Saint John, The Saint John Mirror
• Saint John, The Secret
• Saint John, The Semi Weekly Telegraph (1898)
• Saint John, The St. John Evening Times
• Saint John, The Star (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1819)
• Saint John, The Times; or True Briton (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1808)
• Saint John, The West-Side Review
• Saint John, Weekly Chronicle (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1836)
• Saint John, Weekly Telegraph (1862)
• Saint John, Wilson’s Monthly Mercury
• St. Stephen, The Colonial Presbyterian and Protestant Journal
• Woodstock, Telegraph and New Brunswick General Register (Woodstock, New Brunswick: 1840)
• Woodstock, Woodstock Journal
• Woodstock, Woodstock Weekly Clipper

Daniel F Johnson’s New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics 

Student Collections:

University of New Brunswick – Fredericton

• Brunswickan
• The Brunswickan

Mount Allison University – Sackville

• The Argosy

Saint John High School – Saint John

• SJHS Hound

St. Thomas University – Fredericton

• The Aquinian

Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:

Canadiana Online

• Campbellton, Events (1899-1908,  5 issues)
• Campbellton, The Campbellton Graphic (1909-1983,  8 issues)
• Chatham, The Star (1880-1881?,  120 issues)
• Church and Home – Saint John
• Fredericton, Colonial Farmer (1863-1878,  1 issue)
• Fredericton, The Agriculturist (1878-1879,  71 issues)
• Fredericton, The cathedral monthly (1888?-189- or 19–,  6 issues)
• Fredericton, The Daily Gleaner (1889,  68 issues)
• Fredericton, The Gleaner (188- or 189–1922?,  1 issue)
• Fredericton, The Gleaner (1884-1889,  6 issues)
• Fredericton, The Gleaner (1886-1891,  1 issue)
• Fredericton, The Herald (1889-1909?,  312 issues)
• Fredericton, The Maritime Farmer (1879-1889,  5 issues)
• Fredericton, The Morning star (1878-1879,  37 issues)
• Fredericton, The normal light (1891- 19–,  3 issues)
• Fredericton, The Progress (1874?-18– or 19–,  1 issue)
• Fredericton, The Star (1879-1880,  96 issues)
• Fredericton, The Weekly herald (1881-1889?,  41 issues)
• Fredericton, The York gleaner (1881-1884,  1 issue)
• Gagetown, Queen’s County gazette (1897-1907?,  84 issues)
• Hartland, The Carleton Observer (1915-1930,  6 issues)
• Hartland, The Observer (1909-1915,  3 issues)
• Harvey, The Weekly Observer (1885-1889?,  50 issues)
• Newcastle, The Newcastle union advocate (1909-1911,  81 issues)
• Newcastle, The Pleader (1904,  1 issue)
• Newcastle, The Union Advocate (1867-1909,  19 issues)
• Newcastle, The Union advocate (1911-1952,  680 issues)
• Sackville, Chignecto Post (1870-1879,  1 issue)
• Sackville, Chignecto Post (1881-1896?,  4 issues)
• Sackville, Chignecto Post and Borderer (1879-1881,  2 issues)
• Sackville, The Hum of the college (1894?-189- or 1900,  1 issue)
• Sackville,  The Whitehouse siftings (1894?-189- or 19–,  1 issue)
• Saint Andrews, St. Andrews Beacon (1889-1914,  19 issues)
• Saint Andrews, The St. Andrews Standard (1856-1880,  5 issues)
• Saint Andrews, The Standard, or, Railway and commercial record (1848-1856,  2 issues)
• Saint John, Canadian record (1881-1887?,  1 issue)
• Saint John, Saint John Evening Times, 1904-1905, 111 issues
• Saint John, Saint John Observer, 1853-1855, 52 issues
• Saint John, Saint John Observer, and General Advertiser, 1857, 1 issue
• Saint John, The Evening Times, 1905-1910, 1,480 issues.
• Saint John, The Morning Freeman (1851-1878,  1 issue)
• Saint John, The Saint John Monitor (1899-1914?,  1 issue)
• Saint John, The St. John Weekly Freeman (1878-1884,  3 issues)
• Saint John, The Star, 1820, 1822, 1823, 1826, 1828 , 25 issues
• Saint John, The Star, and and New Brunswick Literary, Political and Commercial Intelligence4, 1818,1 issue
• Saint John, The Weekly Observer, 1828-1853, 723 issues
• Saint John,  Christian standard (1876-1877,  1 issue)
• Saint Martins,  The bema (189–1893?,  1 issue)
• St. Andrews, St. Andrews standard, New-Brunswick (1834-1837,  1 issue)
• St. Andrews, The New-Brunswick standard and St. Andrews’ commercial gazette (1833-1834,  1 issue)
• St. Andrews, The Standard (1848,  1 issue)
• St. Andrews, The Standard, New-Brunswick (1838-1840,  1 issue)
• St. Andrews, The Standard, or, Frontier agricultural and commercial gazette (1845-1848,  2 issues)
• St. Andrews, The Standard, or, Frontier gazette (1840-1845,  2 issues)
• St. John, Torch (1877-1878,  34 issues)
• St. John,  The New-Brunswick religious and literary journal (1829-1830,  58 issues)
• St. John,  The palm branch (1894?-1929?,  80 issues)
• St. John,  Wollestook gazette (1882-1884?,  18 issues)
• St. Martins,  The Seminary bema (1889-1893?,  8 issues)

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There is currently 1 publication available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – New Brunswick Newspapers

Newspaper Archive:

There are currently 3 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – New Brunswick

Newspapers.com:

There are currently 3 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – New Brunswick 

Paper of Record:

There are currently 5 publications available on this site. See the titles at Paper of Record – New Brunswick

And Finally:

You might want to check out the New Brunswick Newspaper Directory from the Provincial Archives site from time to time to see what is available online or otherwise. They have a very nice search engine that displays where each newspaper is held within the province and in what format.

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.