Nova Scotia Historical Newspaper Project

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Following a pan-provincial consultation session at the Nova Scotia Archives, Libraries Nova Scotia with funding from the Nova Scotia Community Access Program (C@P) facilitated a newspaper digitization pilot project. The steering committee includes representatives from Libraries NS, NS Provincial Library, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University (CBU), NS Legislative Library, and Western Counties Regional Library.

The Nova Scotia Archives and the Mi'kmaq College Institute both hosted scanning technicians who completed over 19,000 pages over a seven month period. The Memorial University Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) is hosting a selection of newspapers scanned at Cape Breton University. The list features a complete run of the Micmac News and a selection of other Cape Breton related papers. The publications available include:

Billa Na Queg (A New Day), 1964 (1 issue)
Micmac News, (Membertou), 1965-1992 (Full run)
The Thermometer (Sydney), 1899-1900 (4 issues)
The Nova Scotia Gleaner (Sydney), 1929 (1 issue)
The Cape Breton News (Sydney), 1850-1852 (106 issues)
The Daily Advocate (Sydney), 1878 (2 issues)
The Cape Breton Advocate, (Sydney), 1899, 1840 (2 issues)
The Daily Times (Sydney), 1878 (1 issue)
The Sydney Booster (Sydney), 1935 (1 issue)
Glace Bay Enterprise (Glace Bay), 1896 (2 issues)
Semi-Weekly Express (Sydney), 1879 (4 issues) "

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