RSS 1.0Nineteenth Century Niagara Newspapers
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*Please note that due to the age and quality of the newspapers in this collection a physical scan of the documents is recommended as the OCR software has not been able to recognize 100% of the content*
Sub-communities within this community
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British American Journal
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3155.1 S17 Reel 1 -
Niagara Telegraph
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3144.1 C65 -
St. Catharines Constitutional
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St. Catharines Journal
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3144.1 C65 -
The British Colonial Argus
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3155.1 S17 Reel 1 -
The Farmers' Journal and Welland Canal Intelligencer
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3155.1 S17 Reel 1 -
The Niagara Spectator 1816-1820
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3144.1 C65 -
The Spirit of the Times
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3144.1 C65 -
The Times (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3144.1 C65 -
The Welland Advocate and Review
Microfilm SPCMFM FC 3155.1 S17 Reel 1
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); More on the war in China, which may have reached its peak; Summary of Niagara District Mutual Fire Insurance report; More on the Assessor of Grantham and associated letters to the editor; Various articles on morality and religion;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Summary of the United States Presidential Address; More on the rivalry between the Welland and Erie canals; Various articles on temperance; ‘Canal Rioters’; Letter to the editor regarding an issue in Robert Gourlay’s letters; More on the phrenologist William C. Wall; Continuation of short story ‘the Broken Merchant’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Reply to the previous letter to the editor on the assessor in Grantham, on the accused’s innocence, and many additional letters on the subject; Editorial on Phrenology and local phrenologist William C. Wall; Samuel Butler give dramatic reading at St Catharines theater; ‘Mr. Gourlay’s treatment’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); 'The Croton Aqueduct’; More on the explosion of the Vermillion, and other shipwrecks; Letter to the editor on the Niagara District Council’s recent dismissal of charges against a corrupt assessor in Grantham; St Andrew’s society annual festival; Temperance meeting at Wellandport; Fire at Oswego; Continuation of short story 'the Broken Merchant’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Common school act may be amended to allow women to be teachers; Storm on lake Erie; Death of John C. Colt; Governour General’s policy approved, with editorial; Short story ‘the Washingtonians’, on temperance, and another story ‘The Broken Merchant’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Proceedings of the Niagara District Council; Results of Hamilton election and articles on Edward Wakefield; Editorial on Agricultural Protection; Possibility of removing British duties on colonial imports; Steamboat ‘ Vermillion’ burned;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Agricultural Report to the Parliament of Canada, on what protections should be put in place on the wheat trade, and related editorial; Results of the Cattle Show and Fair in St Catharines; ‘The Welland Canal Contracts’; ‘The War in China’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Results of the Committee on the Importation of Wheat and Wheat Flour, and various articles on agricultural protection; Boundary Treaty ratified; On the rivalry of the Erie and Welland canals; Short Story “The Man who never ate Meat”, against vegetarians, and other articles on food;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Local murders and many arrests; Mr. Howe moves to St Catharines as a Dentist; Articles and short stories on Temperance;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); New Cabinet members elected, with some controversy over members from what was previously Lower Canada and their French origins; Progress on various public works in Canada; Temperance gathering in Bertie; Editorial on Robert Gourlay and further extracts from his Chronicles of Canada; Various articles on parenting and farming;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); 'The Agricultural Question’, on trade routes and tariffs on the trade between Canada and the U.S.; Election riot at Hastings; Estimated budget of Canada for 1842; Editorial on previous article ‘The Late Political Crisis’, and many more articles discussing the political direction of Canada; Brock’s Monument repair committee to apply for money for reconstruction;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Updates from the Canadian Parliament, on trade with the U.S.; Canal labourer unrest in St Catharines over; More extracts from the Chronicles of Canada, on granting land to militiamen and the imprisonment of Robert Gourlay;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); “The Late Political Crisis”, on recent political changes and the plans of Charles Bagot especially regarding responsible government; Extracts from the Chronicles of Canada, on Robert Gourlay;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Updates from the Canadian Parliament; H.J. Boulton is winner of contested election in Niagara District; “Temperance Celebration, in Lewiston”; Correspondence regarding the border treaty;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Updates from the Canadian House of Parliament; “The New Cabinet” and responsible government; Battles from the war at Canton; ‘Detection of Horse Thieves’; Geologist gives lecture on Niagara Falls;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); “Conduct of the Canallers”, against the recent conduct of the labourers on the Welland Canal; Updates from the Parliament of Canada; Militia deployed in St Catharines; Report on the recent Temperance festival in Niagara; Departure of official to present the boundary treaty to England; “Flight of 300 Carrier Pigeons, from Birmingham to Antwerp’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Anticipated subjects for the upcoming session of Parliament and related editorial; Speech from the Throne to the newly opened parliament; “To Those Who Keep No Sabbath”; Various articles on temperance;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); Final treaty between Canada and U.S. to resolve border issue and regarding the searching of ships to stop the slave trade; Results of the recent riot by labourers on the Welland Canal, including imprisonments and deaths; Description of Pelham; Various articles on temperance and proper eating habits;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); More proceedings from the Niagara District Council; “Lawless Proceedings of the Canallers”, a continuation of the editorials on the Irish Labourers and recent unrest, and associated articles; Church burned in St Catharines; Short story ‘Fanny Lincoln’;
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St. Catharines JournalDescription of various items for sale (property lots, ads for other goods and services); “State of the Province”, on how to prevent the Canadian government from getting corrupt; Proceedings of the Niagara District Council; More on the new Boundary Treaty; Sutherland arrested and jailed in Buffalo; Another editorial on Irish Labourers and the recent local unrest regarding provisions; Proceedings of the Niagara District Temperance Convention;
