LibGuides: Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: Alberta

This guide no longer being updated

As of July 1, 2019, this guide is no longer being updated because the librarian who created it has retired.

The Ancestor Hunt: Canadian Newspapers
Scroll down past the list of United States newspapers to see links to an extensive list of Canadian newspapers, organized by province.

Alberta

AACollection: Early Alberta Newspapers 1885-2001
AACollection: Glenbow Museum Library Newspaper Clippings 1880s-?
A database that contains descriptions of 15,000 newspaper clippings. The database doesn't include the full text of the articles.
AACollection: Peel's Prairie Provinces: Newspapers 1871-2013
Includes primarily newspapers from Alberta, but has a few from other western Provinces.
AACollection: Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection 1885-2014
Brooks: Brooks Bulletin 1910-2012
Calgary: Alberta farmer and Calgary weekly herald 1918-1921
Calgary: Calgary Daily Herald 1888-1948
Calgary: Calgary Herald 1929, 1931, 1939-1987
Calgary: Calgary Standard 1912-1913
Calgary: Calgary Sunday Standard 1916-1917
Calgary: Calgary Weekly Herald 1888-1894
Calgary: Calgary Weekly Herald 1912-1918
Calgary: Calgary Western Standard 1917-1918
Calgary: Canadian Western Standard 1918
Calgary: Daily Herald 1900-1907
Calgary: Nor'Wester 1884-1885
Calgary: Prairie Illustrated 1890-1891
Calgary: Provincial Standard 1911-1912
Calgary: Reflector 2008-
Student newspaper from Mount Royal University
Calgary: The Sower in the West 1890, 1895
Church of England newspaper
Calgary: Weekend Herald 1897-1899, 1901, 1979-1982
Calgary: Weekly Herald 1907-1912
Calgary: Western Standard 1913-1916
Cardston: Alberta Star 1907-1910
Cardston: Cardston Review 1921-1922
Clairmont: Clairmont Independent 1918
Clairmont: Clairmont Independent Index 1918
Edmonton: Edmonton Journal 1913-1986
Some years are missing
Edmonton: Edmonton Journal Edmonton Bulletin 1946
Edmonton: Gateway 1910-2008
Student newspaper from the University of Alberta
Edmonton: KanadyU+02F9iU+02FAeU+02F9tU+02FAs´ = The Canadian 1912-1913
Edmonton: Nova hromada 1911-1912
Edmonton: Nugget 1964-
Student newspaper from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Edmonton: Windspeaker 1986-2015
Published by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta
Lac Ste. Anne: Ayamiaywatikom mawnitosaykaekan = La croix de Ste Anne 1900-1903
Cree and French language newspaper
Lac Ste. Anne: La croix = Ayamiaywatik 19903-1905
Cree, French, and English language newspaper
Lake Saskatoon: Lake Saskatoon Index 1917-1918
Lake Saskatoon: Lake Saskatoon Journal 1917
Lake Saskatoon: Lake Saskatoon Journal 1918
Lethbridge: Lethbridge Herald 1904-2016
This site includes both the Lethbridge Heald and the Lethbridge Daily Herald.
Lethbridge: Lethbridge News 1886-1900
Lethbridge: Meliorist 1967-2010
Student newspaper of the University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge: Semi-Weekly News 1891-1892
Medicine Hat: Times 1904-1910
Sacred Heart: Kitchitwa miteh atchimomasinahiganisa 1906-1920
Cree, French, and English language newspaper
Spirit River: Spirit River Echo 1920-1921
Spirit River: Spirit River Echo Index 1920-1921
Wainwright: Wainwright Public Library Newspaper Archives 1908-2018