December 22, 2009:

Hi Al,
 
Google has added the Ottawa Citizen to it's newspaper archives collection.  For the present they are free.  Go here 
 
http://news.google.ca/archivesearch/advanced_search?ned=ca&hl=en 
 
Put Ottawa Citizen in the Source box (see image below). If you select a date for the date box the format is mm/dd/yy; to get all the pages 
for a particular date enter that in both date boxes. The keyword seaches are a bit clunky and only search on selected (by google) 
words on each page so a surname search will not always work.
 
Merry Christmas,
 
... Al Craig

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Thanks for this, Al. This is a tremendous new tool.
To try it out, I tried searching for a personal record from the year 1970. Here's what the screen looked liked after entering my
Search Term "Riceville", adding the Source as "Ottawa Citizen", entering "English" for language and the time period of 1970 to 1971:




And , amazingly, here's what showed up! The headline shows up in blue. The search term is highlighted in yellow by Google.



Keyword Riceville.

Get a coffee and take this new toy out for a spin!

... Al Lewis
 December 28, 2009:

more from Al Craig:

Hi Al,
 
Found some more of the Ottawa newspapers in the Google news archive database:
 
Selected issues of:
 
Bytown Gazette 1840 - 1845
Ottawa Argus 1850 - 1854
Ottawa Times 1862 - 1875
Ottawa Free Press 1871 - 1876 Note: to access this put only 'Free Press' in the source box and then select 1860 -1890 
in the date range boxes - you will get some that are not the Ottawa Free Press but most are
 
and as mentioned before the Citizen from 1880 (above example)
 
others of interest: 
 
Montreal Herald 1820 - 1890 many gaps
 
Montreal Transcript 1835 - 1876 many gaps
 
Montreal Daily Herald 1870 - 1892
 
Montreal Daily Post 1885 - 1888 
 
Montreal Gazette 1880 -   has quite a bit of Ottawa 'social news' 
 
Montreal Daily News 1914 - 1918 primarily war and political news
 
Buckingham Post 1895 - 1898
 
Rideau Record  May 1894 - May 1985; Feb 1913 - Nov 1913
 
Happy New Year
 
... Al Craig

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