Here is a list of local (to Victoria, BC) newspapers. Some of these are available in multiple formats - this redundancy is useful, so I include everything here.
Includes Esquimalt News, Monday Magazine,Saanich News and Victoria News from 2004 to current.
89 newspapers from British Columbia are also included, going back to 2004 (some are earlier). These include the 100 Mile House Free Press, Gulf Islands Driftwood, Saanich News, and Oak Bay News.
British Colonist 1858-1980A full text archive of the oldest newspaper in British Columbia. Since its inception in 1858 it has been known variously as the British Colonist, the Daily Colonist and other variants, and is still published today as the Victoria Times Colonist. It is an important primary source for the history of British Columbia and Vancouver Island.
Victoria Daily Times 1884 - 1940The VIctoria Daily Times was published in VIctoria from 1884, and eventually merged with it's competitors to become today's Times Colonist.
VIU has digitized early local newspapers and made them available online! From 1874.
Includes a name index to the Nanaimo Free Press April 1874 - December 1899.
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