Newspapers and Magazines

Licensed for Acadia users onlyItems displaying the Acadia crest are licensed for use by members of the University community.

Currently Received in Print

The Library receives the following newspapers in print. Recent issues are found in the Quiet Reading Room on the main floor. Earlier issues may be available in storage or on microfilm. Check the Catalogue for detailed holdings.

  • The Advertiser (Kentville, NS)
  • Annapolis County Spectator
  • The Aurora (Canadian Forces Base Greenwood)
  • The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) and Sunday Herald
  • Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Ecosse (Yarmouth)
  • The Digby Courier
  • The Guardian Weekly (Manchester, UK)
  • The Globe & Mail
  • The Hants Journal (Windsor, NS)
  • Kings County Register (Kentville, NS)
  • Micmac Maliseet Nation News
  • Sou'wester (Yarmouth, NS)
  • Taliaq Mi'kma'ki (Truro, NS)

Main Indexes and Databases

Licensed for Acadia users onlyCBCA Current Events (ProQuest)
Indexes news from various Canadian sources. Particularly useful for its coverage of wire services such as Canada NewsWire and Canadian Press NewsWire and radio and television transcripts. Full text of articles or transcripts is provided for many of the sources covered.

Licensed for Acadia users onlyFactiva.com
Here you will find up-to-the-minute news from over 8,000 newspapers, magazines, journals and newswires from around the world, many with full text content. Major papers include: The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The National Post, The New York Times, The Times (London), The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Back issues available vary with each paper.

Licensed for Acadia users onlyEureka (formerly Newscan)
Full text access to English- and French-language Canadian and international news sources, including many regional and local papers such as The Chronicle Herald, the Cape Breton Post, The Guardian (Charlottetown), The Telegram (St. John's) and the Telegraph-Journal (NB), L'Acadie Nouvelle, The Advertiser (Kentville), the Annapolis County Spectator, the Digby Courier, the Hants Journal (Windsor) and the Kings County Register.  Sources vary in the date ranges available.

Historical Archives and Microfilm

Licensed for Acadia users onlyGlobe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
A full text archive of The Globe & Mail from June 1844 to December 2006. Includes complete coverage of the newspaper content. Both keyword searching and browsing by date are provided. For more recent issues, search The Globe & Mail on Factiva.

Licensed for Acadia users onlyNew York Times (1851-2006)

Licensed for Acadia users onlyThe Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)

Licensed for Acadia users onlyThe Wall Street Journal (1889-1992)

Licensed for Acadia users onlyThe Washington Post (1877-1993)


On microfilm, the Library holds many years of several major papers:

  • Chronicle Herald (titles prior to 1959, Halifax Chronicle Herald and Halifax Herald)
  • Globe and Mail (from 1965)
  • New York Times (from 1908 to February 2007)
  • Times (London) (1933 to 2000)

Older issues of a number of local papers are also available for historical research. The Catalogue provides detailed holdings for these. See Maritime Newspapers on Microfilm at Acadia for a list of titles.

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Newspaper Web Sites and Wire Services

Some current news is freely available on newspaper websites.  For more complete coverage, see one of the library resources listed above.

An independent weekly covering Canadian federal government and political news.

From the Internet Public Library, links to newspapers online around the world, organized by region and country.

Compiled by the Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association, this list provides contact information and links to websites, if available, for currently published Nova Scotia daily and community newspapers.