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Introduction

Library and Archives Canada collects, in hardcopy, a select number of Canadian current daily newspapers, all Canadian ethnic newspapers, all Canadian native newspapers, and student newspapers received from the Canadian university press. All print issues may be consulted on site, or requests for articles from them may be made through the services of your local library.

We also have over 200,000 reels of Canadian newspapers on microfilm which may be requested through the interlibrary loan services of your local library.

Please feel free to browse our newspaper lists!

Facts about newspapers

Highest circulation for Canadian newspapers

The Toronto Star

The Globe and Mail

Le journal de Montréal

The Vancouver Sun

The Toronto Sun

La presse

The Edmonton Journal

The Ottawa Citizen

The Vancouver Province

The Montreal Gazette

Source: Canadian Advertising Rates & Data. -- July 1995. -- Audit Bureau of Circulations, 1994. (Statistics based on Monday-to-Friday.)

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.

Sources: Colombo, John Robert. -- 99 Questions about Canada. -- Toronto : Doubleday Canada Limited, 1989 -- p. 316.

"The foreign-language press in Canada", Press Review : a review of the press in Canada other than English and French. -- vol. 2, no. 9 (May 1, 1954). -- Ottawa : Citizenship and Immigration, 1954.
The Guinness book of records 1994. -- London : Guinness Publishing, c. 1993. -- pp. 165-166.

Le livre Guinness des records 1990. -- Paris : Le Livre Guinness des Records, c. 1989. -- pp. 165-166.