Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers

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Resources for Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The Rooms (Provincial Archives)
9 Bonaventure Avenue
P.O. Box 1800, Station C
St. John’s, Newfoundland A1C 5P9
Telephone: (709)757-8030
Email: archives@therooms.ca

The principal repository for newspapers is the Newfoundland and Labrador Collection, which is part of the:

Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries
Newfoundland and Labrador Collection
Provincial Resource Library
Arts and Culture Centre
St. John’s, Newfoundland A1B 3A3
Telephone: 709-737-3955[1]

The P.A.N.L. and the public library have newspaper collections covering the period from 1810 to the present.

Digital Issues Online

Wikipedia has more about this subject: List of online newspaper archives
  • 1810-1816 - The Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser at Google News - free.

Indexes

Related

Ffolliott, Rosemary.  Some Connecting Links Between Ireland and the New World From Old Newspapers.  Article has alphabetical listings of births, marriages and deaths in the Munster (Ireland) Newspapers, covers U.S.A, Canada, West Indies and England.  years 1765-1826.  Article found in The Irish Ancestor, vol. 2, no. 1 1970, pages 62-69, Family History Library Ref. 95-41.5 B2i.

Web Sites

  1. Taylor, Ryan, "Canada Newspaper Indexes and Abstracts (National Institute)," The National Institute for Genealogical Studies (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Canada_Newspaper_Indexes_and_Abstracts_%28National_Institute%29.