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Newspapers
The GSR has an extensive collection of historic local area newspapers available on microfilm.
The following newspapers are available on microfilm in the GSR. Please note that these films are not available for interlibrary loan due to high in-house use.
Newspaper |
Language |
Editions |
|---|---|---|
Ayr News |
English |
30 Jan 1897; 27 Oct 1904 – 20 Dec 2006 |
Ayr Observer & North Dumfries, Blenheim, Blandford, and Waterloo General Advertiser |
English |
17 Oct 1856; 02 Oct 1857 |
Ayr Recorder |
English |
30 Dec 1886; 24 Mar 1892 |
Berlin Chronicle |
English / German |
23 Jan 1856 – 13 Jan 1860 |
Berlin Daily News (Later purchased by Berlin Daily Record in Feb 1897) |
English / German |
11 Feb 1878 – 31 Dec 1878; 30 Jun 1879 – 31 Dec 1879; 4 Jul 1889; 8 Jun 1892 |
Berlin Daily Telegraph (Purchased by Kitchener Daily Record in July 1922) |
English |
07 Jan 1853 – 30 Dec 1853 [Incomplete]; 10 Apr 1857 – 1862 [Incomplete]; 1864 [Incomplete]; Jan 1898 – Jun 1898; 05 Apr 1899 – Jun 1922 |
Berlin Daily Record / Berlin News Record (Title varies; renamed Kitchener Daily Record in Oct 1919) |
English |
02 Feb 1893 – Dec 1893 [Incomplete]; Jan 1894 – Dec 1902; Jul 1903 – Jun 1904; Jan 1907 – Jun 1907; Jul 1908 – Sep 1919 |
Berliner Journal (Renamed Ontario Journal in 1917) |
German |
29 Dec 1859 – Dec 1909; Jan 1911 – Dec 1916 |
Canada Museum |
German |
03 Nov 1836 – 13 Dec 1838 |
Canadisches Volksblatt |
German |
Jan 1865 – Dec 1866 |
Centennial Newspaper Collection (National Canadian Centennial newspapers) |
English / French |
01 Jul 1967 |
Der Deutsche Canadier |
German |
01 Jan 1841 – 24 Dec 1841; 27 Jan 1843; 05 Jan 1844 – 25 Dec 1845; 31 Dec 1846 – 10 Dec 1847; 31 Dec 1847 – 03 Jul 1862; 1863 [Incomplete]; 21 Apr 1864 - 11 Aug 1864; 12 Nov 1867; 19 May 1868 |
Der Morgenstern |
German |
06 Jun 1839 – 16 Sep 1841; 26 Aug 1841; 16 Sep 1841 |
Der Neu Hamburger Neutrale |
German |
19 Jan 1855 – 28 Dec 1855; 02 Jan 1857 – 25 Dec 1857 |
Deutsche Zeitung |
German |
03 Nov 1891 – 11 Oct 1899 |
Die Deutsche Post |
German |
18 Aug 1904; 13 Apr 1905; 14 Feb 1907; 14 Mar 1907; 12 Mar 1908; 01 Jul 1915; 12 Aug 1915 |
Dumfries Reformer (Renamed Galt Weekly Reformer on 14 Oct 1892) |
English |
1849 – 13 Oct 1892 |
Elmira Advertiser |
English |
Apr 1883 – Nov 1894 [Incomplete]; 03 Mar 1898 – 1906; 1908 - 1912 |
Elmira Anzeiger |
German |
17 Apr 1873; 17 Jun 1875; 03 Aug 1876; 05 Jun 1879; 04 Mar 1880; 16 Sep 1880 |
Elmira Fair Dealer |
English |
26 Nov 1959 – 11 Dec 1963 |
Elmira Independent |
English |
07 Mar 1974 – 24 Feb 1987 |
Elmira Signet |
English |
1893 – 08 Feb 1894; 1900 – 09 Jun 1982 |
Freie Presse |
German |
06 Aug 1886 – 05 Aug 1887 |
Galt Daily Reformer |
English |
31 Oct 1899; 21 Dec 1899; 13 Apr 1907 |
Galt Daily Reporter |
English |
1857 – 1889 |
Galt Reformer |
English |
18 Dec 1909 |
Galt Weekly Reformer (Formerly Dumfries Reformer) |
English |
14 Oct 1892 – 31 Dec 1897; 12 May 1904; 16 Mar 1905 |
Hamburger Beobachter |
German |
09 Feb 1855 – 22 Feb 1856 |
Independent (Elmira - National Edition) |
English |
04 Mar 1986 – Dec 1989 |
Hanover Gazette |
German |
02 Dec 1841 |
Kitchener Daily Record (Formerly Berlin News Record / Berlin Daily Record; renamed Kitchener Waterloo Record on 01 Jan 1948) |
English |
Oct 1919 – 31 Dec 1947 |
Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Formerly Kitchener Daily Record; renamed The Record in 1994) |
English |
01 Jan 1948 – 1993 |
New Hamburg Independent |
English |
1882 – 22 Jan 1892 [Incomplete]; 29 Jan 1892 – 1908; 1910 – 1914; 1916 – 29 Dec 1993 |
Ontario Glocke |
German |
03 Jan 1883 – 28 Dec 1887; 02 Jan 1889 – 28 Dec 1898; 05 Jan 1910 – 28 Dec 1910 |
Ontario Journal (Formerly Berliner Journal) |
German |
10 Jan 1917 – Dec 1918 |
Paris Star and Literary, Agricultural, and Family Journal |
English |
15 Dec 1852 |
Plattsville Echo |
English |
15 Nov 1912; 05 Apr 1918; 16 Aug 1918; 30 Aug 1918; 06 Sep 1918; 27 Sep 1918; 11 Oct 1918; 15 Nov 1918; 08 Dec 1922 |
Waterloo Chronicle/ Waterloo Chronicle-Telegraph (Title varies; renamed Waterloo Chronicle-Telegraph between 1899 – 1922) |
English |
Jan 1868 – Oct 1869; Jul 1886; Jan 1894 –Dec 1897; Jan 1899 – Dec 1915; Jan 1917 – 26 Dec 1995; Jan 1998 – Dec 2006 |
The Record (Formerly Kitchener-Waterloo Record; renamed Waterloo Region Record on 11 Mar 2008) |
|
1994 – 10 Mar 2008 |
Waterloo Region Record (Formerly The Record) |
English |
11 Mar 2008 – Present |
Waterloo Sentinel |
English |
12 Oct 1909 – 24 Sep 1912 |
Wellesley Maple Leaf Journal |
English |
25 Oct 1900 – 16 Nov 1905; 11 Jan 1906 – 24 Sep 1908 |
Woodstock Daily Sentinel Review |
English |
21 Aug 1933; 04 Jun 1942 |
Zwiakowiec |
Polish |
17 Nov 1935 – 04 Oct 1936 |
If you require assistance in locating a newspaper article on microfilm, please contact the KPL’s Ask A Librarian (email reference) or InfoLink (telephone reference) service. Please note that you will need to provide a date for staff to conduct a quick search. If the search is successful, you will be provided with date and page references for the newspaper.
Indices of births, marriages and deaths, translated from some of Waterloo County's German language newspapers, are also available. Please see the KPL catalogue for holdings.
For information on newspaper holdings, please contact the Local History Librarian.
Vertical (Newspaper Clipping) Files in the GSR
The Grace Schmidt Room has an extensive collection of newspaper clippings, also known as “vertical files". The files contain local history and interest items, arranged alphabetically by subject.
The files contain clippings from the following newspapers: The Record, the Waterloo Chronicle, the New Hamburg Independent, the Elmira Independent, Cambridge Times and the Ayr News.
For more information about the vertical files and to access the subject heading indexes, click here.
