The St. Catharines Journal was a semi-regular newspaper published weekly in the 1800s. Articles and attitudes in this newspapers were often reflective of common attitudes of white settlers during this time period, meaning that most prejudices and colonialist ideas went unquestioned. These digitized newspapers are hosted for the purposes of education on historical periods. Brock does not endorse any of the views contained within them.

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  • St. Catharines Journal

    The Farmers Journal from Welland went on to form the British American Journal. By 1835 the name was changed again, and the paper ran at the St. Catharines Journal from 1835-1915 (approximately).

Recent Submissions

  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-12-29)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-12-22)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-12-15)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-12-08)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-12-01)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-11-24)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-11-17)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-11-10)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-11-03)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-10-27)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-10-20)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-10-13)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-10-06)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-09-29)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-09-22)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-09-15)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-09-08)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-09-01)
    Description 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;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-08-23)
    Description 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’;
  • St. Catharines Journal

    Leavenworth, Hiram (1842-08-18)
    Description 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;

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