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Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: Nova Scotia

Links to historical Canadian newspapers that are freely available on the Internet.

This guide no longer being updated

As of July 1, 2019, this guide is no longer being updated because the librarian who created it has retired.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

ACollection: Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers (Libraries Nova Scotia) 1769-2003
ACollection: Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers 1929, 1964-1991
ACollection: Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online
Halifax: Acadian Recorder 1854-1861
Halifax: British Colonist 1823-1874
Halifax: Church Guardian 1879-1895
A Church of England newspaper
Halifax: Citizen 1873
Halifax: Halifax Citizen 1863-1873
Halifax: Halifax Gazette 1752-1755, 1761, 1764-1766, 1769-1770, 1772-1776, 1779-1780
Halifax: Halifax Morning Sun 1862-1867
Halifax: Morning Journal: 1854-1857, 1859
Halifax: Novascotian 1827-1830
Halifax: Royal Gazette 1785-1800, 1810-1818, 1828-1835, 1853-1858
Halifax: Unionist and Halifax Journal 1869
This file is titled The Union and includes issues of that newspaper published in Ottawa 1859-1860, 1865-1866. It also includes issues of The Nation published in Toronto 1874-1876.
Halifax: Wesleyan 1883-1884
Methodist newspaper
Pictou: Colonial Patriot 1827-1834
Sydney: Cape Breton Post 1901, 1920, 1930, 1960, 1970
Includes issues of the Sydney Post
Yarmouth: Yarmouth Herald 1833-1851, 1854-1865, 1867
Many issues of this newspaper are listed under an incorrect date.