Calgary Herald archives on Google

[Resolute 14]

This is a very recent addition... and a few Western papers have made their way online, including the Vancouver Sun and Edmonton Journal. I'm a fan of this, as the library's microfilm readers are crap! All total, almost 18,000 editions are up online now from 1888 to 1987.

Lots of great history, some of it almost completely forgotten:

As long as there has been hockey in the west, there have been complaints about travel distance (1924)

Did we really elect a TV personality as mayor? (1980, Edmonton Journal)

We got the Olympics! (1981)

Stampede celebrates a record 520,000 visitors, and yes, it always rains at Stampede (1956)

[skins]

Wow, this is pretty cool. The ads are almost as interesting as the stories.

Custom Tailored Overcoats for $27 - 1924 - Tip Top Tailor's

[troutman]

When will all the Sunshine girls be archived?

[frinkprof]

This is awesome. Seems to be some rather large holes in the availability of editions though. For example, try to look up any of the dates during the Olympics.

Hopefully more get added.

[Resolute 14]

One I came across from the Montreal Gazette a while ago. Something that will both amuse anyone who is immature, while showing how the meaning of language has changed over the years. Second paragraph of the story to the right, "Babe Pratt ousted on gambling count":

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...6083%2C4451472

Originally Posted by frinkprof

This is awesome. Seems to be some rather large holes in the availability of editions though. For example, try to look up any of the dates during the Olympics.

Hopefully more get added.

I hope so too. What is up now represents only about half of the Herald's archives for that time. The oldest edition they have is from 1888, when the cost was 25 cents a week!

[Resolute 14]

Would you have cheered for the Calgary Umbrellas?

[604flames]

Awesome, awesome news. I use google news archive a LOT for research purposes.

[KevanGuy]

Some really cool stuff in there for WWII buffs - like this small article on the front page of the August 6, 1945 edition:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...=4437%2C440937

or this from around the same time - Hitler is Alive Sleuth Believes:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...=1192%2C316616

[BlackArcher101]

This is awesome. Trying to find articles about significant events (ie, wright brothers first flight) is proving more difficult than I thought.

Edit: This is probably why. Interesting how quick people were to not believe new technology. I guess this still occurs today to some extent.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In years to come Dayton newspapers would proudly celebrate the hometown Wright brothers as national heroes, but the local reporters somehow missed one of the most important stories in history as it was happening a few miles from their doorstep. James M. Cox, publisher at that time of the Dayton Daily News (later governor of Ohio and Democratic presidential nominee in 1920), expressed the attitude of newspapermen—and the public—in those days when he admitted years later, "Frankly, none of us believed it."[61]


The Dayton Daily News reported the October 5 flight on page 9, with agriculture and business news.[N 2]
A few newspapers published articles about the long flights, but no reporters or photographers had been there. The lack of splashy eyewitness press coverage was a major reason for disbelief in Washington, D.C. and Europe and in journals like Scientific American, whose editors doubted the "alleged experiments" and asked how U.S. newspapers, "alert as they are, allowed these sensational performances to escape their notice."[63]
The Wright brothers were certainly complicit in the lack of attention they received. Fearful of competitors stealing their ideas, and still without a patent, they flew on only one more day after October 5. From then on, they refused to fly anywhere unless they had a firm contract to sell their aircraft.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by fotze

Thanks, found a photo of my dad making a save in 1956 in a Michigan paper.

In the IHL? If so, the shooter might have been my grandfather!

[Buzzard]

I guess I can now finally throw out random collectible newspapers I've hoarded over the years.

[Arsenal14]

If you want earlier Calgary papers, look under The Calgary Weekly Herald (starts January 11, 1888) or The Calgary Daily Herald (starts September 8, 1888).