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Find out how to search in Aurora using AMICUS conversion guide AMICUS numbers will continue to appear on some Library and Archives Canada webpages after the launch of our Aurora catalogue. Find out how to search in Aurora using AMICUS numbers: Search by AMICUS number in Aurora. We thank you for your patience as we update our website.

Library and Archives Canada collects print copies of select Canadian current daily newspapers, all Canadian ethnic newspapers, all Canadian aboriginal newspapers, and student newspapers received from Canadian University Press. The Newspaper Collection also contains international newspapers.

All print issues may be consulted onsite. We also have over 200,000 reels of Canadian newspapers on microfilm, some of which are available online.

To locate these newspapers in our collection

search Aurora, the national catalogue by newspaper title

browse the Geographical Microform List by province or territory

For more information

Indexes to Canadian Newspapers — for published indexes to key information (births, marriages, deaths)

Canada News Online — links to Canadian news resources

General information about newspapers

Oldest Post och Inrikes Tidningar . — Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, 1645. Largest New York Times . — Sunday, October 17, 1965. — 15 sections, 946 pages; 7 1/2 lbs., 3.40 kg. Smallest Daily Banner , Roseberg, Oregon. — February 1, 2, 1876. (surviving) — 3 X 3 3/4 inches; 7.6 X 9.5 cm. First Canadian newspaper Halifax Gazette . — March 23, 1752. First French-Canadian newspaper Le Canadien . (Québec and Montréal) — November, 1806. Longest-running newspaper in Canada and the United States The Quebec Gazette / La gazette de Québec . — 1764. — now Chronicle-Telegraph . First daily published in Canada Daily Advertiser , Montréal. — May 14, 1833. First ethnic newspaper in Canada Die Welt, und Neuschottländische Correspondenz , Halifax. — January 1788. Oldest weekly newspaper Cobourg Star , Cobourg, Ontario. — 1831. — now Cobourg Sentinel Star .

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