The University of Alberta Libraries feature many historic Alberta newspapers through the Peel’s Prairie Provinces collections. Historic newspapers can be a good source of genealogical information. Besides births, marriages and obituaries, use the newspapers to find school graduations, sporting or club events featuring your ancestors, or perhaps find the 50th anniversary notice of someone connected to your family tree. Community social events can be a source of information as well. The research possibilites are endless.
Browse Newspapers
- Advertiser and Central Alberta News (1907–09; 108 issues)
- Alberta Non-Partisan (1917–19; 28 issues)
- Alderson News (1915–18; 134 issues)
- Bassano Mail (1913–36; 847 issues)
- Bassano News (1910–14; 189 issues)
- Bassano Recorder (1937–45; 332 issues)
- Beiseker Times (1949–53; 217 issues)
- Bellevue Times (1910–18; 375 issues)
- Blairmore Enterprise (1909–48; 1,803 issues)
- Bow Island Review (1910–23; 659 issues)
- Bow Valley Resource (1931–36; 269 issues)
- Bowden News (1909–12; 161 issues)
- The Brandon Mail (1882–97; 754 issues)
- The Calgary Weekly Herald (1883–1901; 614 issues)
- Carbon News (1921–22; 50 issues)
- Carlstadt News (1913–15; 122 issues)
- Carlstadt Progress (1911–12; 50 issues)
- The Cayley Hustler (1909–13; 186 issues)
- The Champion Chronicle (1920–43; 753 issues)
- Chinook Advance (1915–45; 1,279 issues)
- Carbon Chronicle (1927–60; 1,655 issues)
- Claresholm Advertiser (1914–16; 86 issues)
- Claresholm Review (1907–16; 422 issues)
- Claresholm Review-Advertiser (1916–28; 437 issues)
- Coleman Bulletin (1913–18; 98 issues)
- Coleman Miner (1908–11; 154 issues)
- Le Courrier de l’ouest (1905–15; 528 issues)
- Cowley Chronicle and Lundbreck Advertiser (1909–10; 9 issues)
- Crossfield Chronicle (1908–53; 1,837 issues)
- The Edmonton Capital (1910–14; 1,066 issues)
- Empress Express (1913–36; 1,029 issues)
- L’Etoile de St. Albert (1912–14; 124 issues)
- The Farm and Ranch Review (1944–59; 178 issues)
- Folio (1964–2007; 1,555 issues)
- Le Franco-Albertain (1967–2000; 1,678 issues)
- Frank Paper (1907–09; 93 issues)
- Frank Vindicator (1910–13; 136 issues)
- The Gateway (1910–2006; 3,221 issues)
- The Gleichen Call (1907–56; 2,394 issues)
- Grain Growers Guide (1909–19; 504 issues)
- Bassano Herald (1955–58; 65 issues)
- The Illustrated War News (1885; 18 issues)
- Irma Times (1917–59; 1,960 issues)
- Lacombe Guardian (1913–16; 168 issues)
- Le Métis (1871–81; 489 issues)
- Mirror (1912–13; 21 issues)
- Mirror Mail (1926–27; 54 issues)
- Monitor News (1916–20; 203 issues)
- The Munson Mail (1916–18; 106 issues)
- Northern Tribune (1932–39; 391 issues)
- Le Patriote de l’ouest (1910–32; 1,085 issues)
- The People’s Weekly (1944–52; 233 issues)
- Ponoka Herald (1902–23; 350 issues)
- Poundmaker (1972–74; 62 issues)
- The Rebel (1937–39; 16 issues)
- Red Deer News (1906–26; 1,000 issues)
- Redcliff Review (1910–40; 643 issues)
- Saturday News (1905–12; 320 issues)
- Stony Plain Sun (1924–38; 390 issues)
- Strathcona Chronicle (1907–09; 54 issues)
- Strathcona Evening Chronicle (1907–08; 286 issues)
- The Strathmore Standard (1909–24; 716 issues)
- La Survivance (1928–67; 1,986 issues)
- Taber Free Press (1907–10; 122 issues)
- United Farmers of Alberta (1922–33; 217 issues)
- L’Union (1919–23; 18 issues)
- Vermilion Signal (1906–08; 5 issues)
- Wainwright Record (1933–34; 69 issues)
- Wainwright Star (1924–48; 649 issues)
- MacLeod Weekly (1908–09; 7 issues)
- The Western Farm Leader (1936–47; 135 issues)
- Western Globe (1911–33; 331 issues)
- Wetaskiwin Times (1901–33; 1,141 issues)
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