Subject Guides: The Highway of Tears : Popular Publications

Newspapers and Popular Publications

Popular publications can be newspapers or magazines, but are NOT scholarly or peer-reviewed articles. Popular publications are important in elaborating what the media or a particular population thinks about an issue. Click on the links to access databases that contain popular publications.

Canadian newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database provides full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in a variety of Canadian newspapers, many with extensive backfiles. Database content is updated daily.
CBCA complete This link opens in a new window
CBCA (Canadian Business & Current Affairs) is a comprehensive bibliographic full text reference and current events database. Information is available from a broad range of Canadian sources with the database containing over 4 million records. Subjects covered are current events, business, science, the arts, and Canadian academic information. Full text is available from over 750 journals with indexing for an additional 800 periodicals and daily news sources.
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals) This link opens in a new window
Canadian Periodical Index Quarterly (CPI.Q) indexes over 1500 magazines, newspapers, journals and reference sources with a Canadian focus over half of those have full text available. Notable publications include Globe and Mail, Economist, Maclean's, and National Geographic, as well as many newspapers from British Columbia.
Globe and Mail : Canada's heritage from 1844 This link opens in a new window
Our access to the Globe and Mail starts in June 1844, and includes all the stories published up to four years ago, plus thousands of images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births, and deaths.
PG newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Prince George Newspapers Project is a digitization project initiative to provide online digital access to the historical newspapers of Prince George, British Columbia by three libraries: the Prince George Public Library, the College of New Caledonia Library, and the Geoffrey R. Weller Library at UNBC.

Not finding what you're looking for? The library has a full list of newspaper and popular publications databases.

CBC News
CBC Digital Archives: Crime & Justice
Click on "Cold Cases: Unsolved Crimes in Canada".
Daybreak North: Archive
An archive of news articles and radio interviews from CBC Radio One's Daybreak North.
Missing & Murdered: Unsolved cases of Indigenous women and girls
CBC News has compiled all the unsolved cases of Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
How CBC investigated unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous women

Click on the links below for publications that are found either in microfilm or electronically. Here is a guide on how to use the microfilm scanner.

Daily News (Prince Rupert)
- 1913 - 1999 (microfilm)
- 12 Oct. 1999 - 16 July 2010 (electronic)
Cariboo Observer (Quesnel)
- 1908 - 2010 (electronic)
- 01 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
Free Press (100 Mile House)
- 1987 - 1999 (microfilm)
- 04 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
Houston Today (Houston)
- 1969 - 1979 (microfilm)
- 1980 - 1999 (microfilm)
- 15 Feb. 2005 - Present (electronic)
Lakes District News (Burns Lake)
- 1981 - 1986; 1988 - 1999 (microfilm)
- 04 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
Prince George Citizen (Prince George)
- Jan. 1997 - Oct 2008 (microfilm)
- 17 May 1916 - 31 Dec. 1985; 17 Aug. 1999 - 13 Oct. 2015; 03 Jan. 2000 - Present (electronic)
Terrace Standard (Terrace)
- 1988 - 1997 (microfilm)
- 01 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
The Caledonia Courier (Fort St. James)
- 1991 - 1997 (microfilm)
- 04 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
The Interior News (Smithers)
- 1984 - 1991; 1993 - 1999 (microfilm)
- 12 Aug. 2004 - Present (electronic)
The Kamloops Daily News (Kamloops)
- 16 Aug. 1999 - 11 Jan. 2014 (electronic)
The Northern View (Prince Rupert)
- 01 Feb. 2008 - Present (electronic)
This Week (Prince Rupert)
- 1994 - 1997 (microfilm)

Click on the links below for publications that are found either in microfilm or electronically. Here is a guide on how to use the microfilm scanner.

Globe and Mail (Toronto)
- 23 Nov. 1936 - Present (electronic)
Herizons (Winnipeg)
- 31 July 1992 - Present (electronic)
Maclean's (Toronto)
- Jan. 1969 - June 1981; 04 Jan. 1981 - 01 Jan. 2000 (microfilm)
- 01 Jan. 1989 - Present (electronic)
National Post (Toronto)
- 17 Oct. 1998 - Present (electronic)
The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver)
- 01 Jan. 1973 - 10 Jan. 1983; 21 Jan 1983 - 31 Mar. 1984; 21 May 1984 - 31 Dec. 1986 (microfilm)
- 02 Jan. 1987 - 17 Oct. 2017 (electronic)
Windspeaker (Edmonton)
- Jan. 1983 - Dec. 1996 (microfilm)
- 04 Jan. 1993 - Present (electronic)

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