OldNews is the MyHeritage standalone website that first made digitized newspapers available earlier this year.
The Canada Newspapers from OldNews.com™ index has 385,439 pages in 101 Canadian newspaper titles. It was created using MyHeritage’s optical character recognition (OCR). Articles date back to 1871. Search results are the paper and issue, a 20-30 word text snippet and a link to the original page image on OldNews($).
The coverage is for the Prairie Provinces. There are newspapers from Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg, as well as numerous smaller Prairie communities. Except for Invermere in British Columbia, coverage for the rest of the country is yet to come.
MyHeritage has broader coverage through Canada Newspapers, 1752-2007 — 6,960,992 pages in 345 newspaper titles. It’s part of a MyHeritage subscription, including through a group subscription like the Ottawa Public Library. There’s also Canada, French Newspapers 1807-2007 with over three million pages.