Newfoundland and Labrador Online Historical Newspapers Summary

​Newfoundland/Labrador is one of the Canadian provinces that does have a single central online repository for searching historical newspapers. Also, there are several 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 Newfoundland and Labrador 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:

Provincewide Collections:

Memorial University of Newfoundland – Digital Archives Initiative

• Alex Stacey Newsclippings Collection
• Banner of Temperance
• Bay News (47 Issues)
• Bay Roberts Guardian 1910-1949 (1,366 Issues)
• Bell Island Examiner (81 Issues)
• Bell Island Reporter 1958-1966 (140 Issues)
• Bell Island Times
• Bell Islander, The
• Burin Peninsula Post
• Caribou 1980-1987 (50 Issues)
• Carol Link 1965-1969 – Carol News 1970-1971 (267 Issues)
• Colonist 1886-1892 (1,896 Issues)
• Cove
• Daily Mail 1923-1924 (465 Issues)
• Daily News 1894-1980 (25,216 Issues)
• Diocesan Review
• Echo
• Evening Advocate (Mail and Advocate) 1914-1924 (3,154 Issues)
• Evening Chronicle 1907-1912 (1,551 Issues)
• Evening Herald (Evening Mercury) 1882-1920 (10,958 Issues)
• Evening Telegram 1879-1972 (27,393)
• Fishermen Worker’s Tribune
• Fishermen’s Advocate
• Fishermen’s Advocate 1924-1980 (2,878 Issues)
• Fogo Island Profile
• Free Press 1903-1929 (717 Issues)
• Harbor Grace Standard 1859-1934 (3,134 Issues)
• Labour Herald
• Labrador Informer
• Labrador News
• Labrador Press
• Le Gaboteur 1984-2011 (27 Volumes)
• Liberal Press
• Morning Advertiser and Shipping Gazette
• Morning Courier 1844-1878 (3,252 Issues)
• Morning Despatch
• MUN Gazette 1968-2016 (1021 Issues)
• Muse 1950-2017 (1,438 Issues)
• NANL News
• Newfoundland Gazette 1925-1982 (3,052 Issues)
• Newfoundland Mercantile Journal 1816-1827 (376 Issues)
• Newfoundland Weekly
• Newfoundland Weekly 1924-1932; 1940-1941 (424 Issues)
• Northern Reporter 1966-1992 (760 Issues)
• Observer’s Weekly 1934-1962 (1,443 Issues)
• Our Country
• Patriot And Terra-Nova Herald 1833-1890 (2,345 Issues)
• Post
• Public Ledger 1827-1869 (4,210 Issues)
• Sentinel and Conception Bay Advertiser
• Southern Shore and St. Mary’s Bay Weekly
• Southern Shore Courier
• Speaker
• Springdale News
• St. John’s Daily News 1860-1870 (2,333 Issues)
• St. John’s Daily Star 1915-1921 (1,738 Issues)
• St. John’s Free Press and Semiweekly Advertiser
• Stephenville News
• Suburban Mirror
• Temperance Journal 1878-1887 (163 Issues)
• Terra Nova Advocate 1875-1890 (1,260 Issues)
• The Carbonear Herald and Outport Telephone
• The Cartwright Courier
• The Conception-Bay Man
• The Confederate
• The Daily Globe
• The Daily Tribune
• The Enterprise
• The Mercury And General Advertiser
• The Morning Herald
• The Newfoundland Commercial Journal
• The Newfoundland Times (New York)
• The Newfoundland Vindicator
• The Newfoundlander 1934
• The Newfoundlander 1944-1954
• The Plaindealer
• The Record
• The Register
• The Reporter
• The Scope 2006-2013 (147 Issues)
• The Star and Conception Bay Weekly Reporter
• The Star and Newfoundland Advocate
• The Telegraph 1856-1875 (975 Issues)
• The Vindicator and Brigus Reporter
• The Weekly Express
• The Weekly News
• Times And General Commercial Gazette 1832-1895 (5,715 Issues)
• Trinity Enterprise 1909-1917, 1934, 1938, 1946 (85 Issues)
• Twillingate Sun 1880-1953 (2,080 Issues)
• Wabana Star
• Weekly Herald And Conception-Bay General Advertiser 1845-1854 (483 Issues)
• Weekly Record
• Western Star 1900-1985 (12,926 Issues)

Google News Archive

• Harbour Grace – The Standard 
• St. Johns – Newfoundlander 
• St. Johns – The Evening Telegram
• St. Johns – The Newfoundland Express
• St. Johns – The Newfoundlander
• St. Johns – The Public Ledger
• St. Johns – The Public Ledger and Newfoundland General Advertiser
• St. Johns – The Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser
• St. Johns – The Telegram

Canadiana Online

• Evening Advocate – St. Johns
• Mail and Advocate – St. Johns
• Newfoundland Monthly Messenger – St. Johns
• The Carbonear herald and outport telephone – Carbonear
• The Carbonear herald and railroad journal – Carbonear
• The Carbonear star and Conception-Bay journal – Carbonear
• The Collegian – St. Johns
• The Conception-Bay man – Harbour Grace
• The Daily Mail – St. Johns
• The Evening Telegram – St. Johns
• The Guardian – Bay Roberts
• The Mail and Advocate – St. Johns
• The Morning Advocate – St. Johns
• The Newfoundland Magazine – St. Johns
• The Star, and Conception Bay journal
• The Star and Conception Bay semi-weekly advertiser – Harbour Grace
• The Star And Conception Bay Weekly Reporter – Harbour Grace
• The Star and Newfoundland Advocate – St. Johns

Digitized Periodicals from the Centre for Newfoundland Studies

• Christmas Annual.
• Christmas Bells. Published 1892-19?
• Christmastide. Published 1907-?
• College Courier (2 Issues)
• Colonial Commerce (4 Issues) Published 1915-1919
• Commercial Annual. Published 1916-1921?
• Curtis Academy Magazine (8 Issues) Published 1944-1956
• Easter Lily (Easter, 1917)
• Empire Digest May 1944 Vol. 1 No. 8
• Family Fireside (20 Issues)
• June 1946
• Great War Vol. 9 Pt. 155 (4 August 1917)
• Harmoneer (3 Issues)
• Imperial Oil Review (3 Issues)
• Military Gazette. Vol. 60 No. 9 September 1945
• MUN Sports Camps Bulletin (4 Issues)
• Newfoundland Journal of Commerce (280 Issues)
• Newfoundland Magazine (23 Issues) Published 1917-192?
• Newfoundland News (2 Issues) Published 1939?-1945?
• Newfoundland Stories and Ballads (42 Issues) Published 1954-1974
• Newfoundland Story (15 Issues)
• New-land Magazine (47 Issues) Published 1962-1990/91
• Parsons’ Xmas Annual. Published 1899-1907?
• Shortis Papers (10 Issues)
• Spencerian (16 Issues) Published 1921-1959
• Sports and Pastimes in Newfoundland (2 Issues) Published 1911?-1916?
• John’s Woman (22 Issues)
• The Cadet (25 Issues) Published 1914-1924
• The Distaff (2 Issues) Published 1916-1917
• The Military Gazette, vol. 60, no. 09 (September 1945)
• The Newfoundland Monthly Messenger Almanac 1877
• The Port (3 Books)
• The Record (January 1898)
• The Sportsman Pilot, 1939-05-15
• The Standard, November 23, 1946
• The Telegrapher 1904, March 5
• This Week Magazine, 1941-05-25
• TickleAce (39 Issues) Published 1977-2003

Newfoundland Newspaper Transcriptions

• Bay of Islands Transcriptions
• Bell Island Submarine Miner
• Bonavista North area
• Burin Funeral Home Obits
• Downhome
• Government Publications
• Grand Falls Advertiser
• Gulf News
• Newfoundland Express
• Old News of Newfoundland
• Ph-Goulds & Cape Broyle
• Royal Gazette
• St. John’s Daily News
• The Advocate
• The Aurora
• The Beacon
• The Carbonear Herald and Outport Telephone
• The Coaster
• The Compass
• The Evening Telegram
• The Evening Telegram
• The Free Press
• The Georgian
• The Guardian
• The Harbour Grace Standard
• The Humber Log
• The Lewisporte Pilot
• The Newfoundlander
• The Northern Pen
• The Nor’Wester
• The Packet
• The Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser
• The Shoreline
• The Southern Gazette
• The Star and Conception Bay Journal
• The Telegram
• The Twillingate Sun
• Various Papers
• Various Papers 1979-1998
• Weekly Express
• West Coast Transcriptions
• Western Star

Student Collections:

Memorial University – St. Johns

• The Muse

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

Other Free Sites:

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There is currently 2 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers

Paper of Record:

There are currently 2 publications available on this site. See the titles at Paper of Record – Newfoundland and Labrador

Newspaper Archive:

There are currently 68 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – Newfoundland and Labrador

And Finally:

You might want to check out Memorial University’s Digital Archives Initiative site from time to time to see what is available online or otherwise. 

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.