Why use newspapers?

• Follow current news items and trends
• Gather information on most recent events
• Discover local perspectives
• Read the editorials and analyze the opinions

Be aware of where the newspaper is published. The geographic factor can have a large impact on what news are presented and how they presented.

How to find newspaper articles

• Canadian Major Dailies: Access content from a variety of Canadian newspapers through the library website.
• Google Newspaper Archive: Freely available historical newspapers from Canada and the United States.
• BANQ Numérique: All residents of Quebec can access the databases provided by the Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec (BANQ). Those databases include Eureka, which contains French newspaper articles.
  • Users who do not already own a BANQ card can sign up online.
• The Internet: Use Google or another search engine to access the websites of well-known newspapers like La Presse or the New York Times.