23 historical newspapers have been digitized and made available on GenealogyQuebec.com!
You may browse these 12 738 new images in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections right now (subscription required).
Here are the newspapers that were added through this update.
The Quebec Gazette (1832 to 1836)
The Inquirer (Trois-Rivières) (1857 to 1863)
The Dominion Illustrated News (Montréal) (1888 to 1893)
The Canadian Jewish Review (1935 to 1939)
Paris-Canada (1884 to 1893)
Midi-Presse (Montréal) (1954)
L’Opinion Publique (Montréal) (1870 to 1874)
L’Obligation (Montréal) (1918 and 1919)
Le Semeur Canadien (Montréal) (1856 to 1861)
Le Trésor des Familles (Québec) (May 1883)
Le Progrès du Golfe (1948 to 1950)
Le National (Montréal) (1892)
Le Charivari (Québec) (1868)
Le Castor (Québec) (1879)
Le Carillon (Québec) (1879)
L’Action Canadienne (November 1915)
La Tribune Canadienne (Montréal)
La Vie Illustrée (Montréal) (1889)
La Semaine (Québec) (1895)
La Minerve (1868 and 1869)
La Chronique de la Vallée du St-Maurice (1929)
Daily Witness (Montréal) (1874 to 1879)
Commercial Gazette (Montréal) (1897)
To browse these papers, open the Drouin Institute Miscellaneous Collections and navigate to the “23 – Journaux anciens/” (23 – Historical newspapers/) folder.
Memorial cards
30 000 memorial cards were added to the Obituary section on GenealogyQuebec.com, adding to the 62 500 cards already available in the section.
Memorial cards search engine from GenealogyQuebec.com
Memorial cards can be searched by name, first name and date.
The Obituary section, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, is home to most obituary, memorial card and headstone picture available on the website:
- 2.3 million Canadian obituaries from various online sources, spanning from 1999 to today
- 663 000 obituaries from Quebec newspapers published between 1860 and today
- 611 000 indexed headstone pictures from 830 cemeteries located in Quebec and Ontario
- 92 500 memorial cards from various locations in Quebec
The Obituary section can be browsed with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Genealogically yours,
The Drouin team
