NEWSPAPERS OF ESSEX COUNTY: PUBLISHING BEFORE 1960
(updated: Katharine Ball: 2014/09/25)
Please note that the non-UW holdings are incomplete and may be inaccurate.
Title(s) of Newspaper
?Name Unknown
Advance
Ahbarijiet Ta' Malta
Malta News
Place(s) of
Publication
Sandwich
Essex Centre
Windsor
Dates of Publication
Frequency
UW Holdings
1844
1882 - 1885
Weekly
Weekly
None
None
1954: Apr. - 1965: Nov.
(v. 2: no. 4)
Monthly
None
Other Essex Co. Holdings
Other Holdings
McMaster University: 1954 1965 (microfilm) – missing 1965:
May/June
National Library: 1954 - 1965
(microfilm)
Amherstburg Courier
Western District Advertiser
Courier
Amherstburg Echo
Echo
Amherstburg
Amherstburg
1849: March 10th 1854?
1874: Nov. 20th - 2012
Weekly
Weekly
1849: no. 1 1850: No. 48
(microfilm:
incomplete?;
AN.A55)
1874: Nov. 20th 1982: Dec. 29th
(microfilm;
AN.A56)
Windsor Public: 1849: March1850: Feb. 9th (microfilm:
incomplete)
Simon Fraser University: 19541965 (microfilm)
Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin
Room: 1850: Nov. 23rd (v.2: no.
37)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1850: Aug. 31st
Archives of Ontario: 1851: July
5th
Essex County Public: 1969: Jan.
- 1984: Dec. 26th (microfilm);
current issues
National Library: 1849: March
10th - 1850: Feb. 9th (microfilm:
incomplete)
St. Thomas More College
(Sask.), Shannon Library: 1880?:
Oct. 22nd
Windsor Public: [1896] - 1918;
[1935] - 1939; 1969 -
Archives of Ontario: 1874: Nov.
20th; 1880: Oct.22nd; 1908: Oct.
15th; 1910: July 8th, July 15th,
Dec. 10th; 1914: Aug. 14t h- Sept.
18th, Oct. 1st, Oct. 9th, Nov. 20th,
Dec. 11th; 1915: Jan. 22nd, Jan.
29th, Feb. 12th - Feb. 23rd, Mar.
5th, June 4th, Aug. 20th, Sept. 24th,
Oct. 22nd, Oct. 29th, Nov. 5th, Nov.
19th - Dec. 3rd, Dec. 17th - Dec.
31st; 1918: Dec. 13th; 1923: Aug.
31st, Oct. 5th - Dec. 28th; 1924:
Jan. 4th - Sept. 19th, Nov. 28th;
1934: no. 23; 1938: Apr. 29th,
June 17th
University of Western Ontario:
1927: May 13th (v.53: no. 25);
1934: Nov. 23rd; 1966: July 21st
National Library: 1923: Nov.
23rd
Notes
Published by Thomas Ireland
Established by John Stafford; merged
with the Chronicle to become the Argus
Published in Maltese and English;
founded and edited by George
Bonavia; published by the Ethnic
Publishing Co.; Albert Bajona was
associate editor
- Ethnic Newspaper Microfilming
Project of OCUL 1972/1973
Published on Saturdays; Publisher:
James A. Reeves; office on Dalhousie
Street, opposite the British North
American Hotel; John Richmond and
Colin Fox were later editors
Established by Hon. William D. Balfour
and Mr. John A. Auld
Amherstburg Leader
Amherstburg
189?-189?
Weekly
None
Amherstburg Observer And
Agricultural Record For the County
of Essex
Observer
Amherstburg
1860?-1861?
Weekly
None
Amherstburg Telegraph
Telegraph
Amherstburg
1855-1856?
Weekly
None
Argus
Essex Centre
1885
Weekly
None
Beaver
Border Cities Era
Windsor
Windsor
188?-188?
1918-192?
Weekly
Weekly
None
None
Border Cities Star
Windsor
1918:Sept. 3rd - 1935:
June 28th
Daily
1918: Sept. 3rd 1935: June 28th
(microfilm;
AN.W54)
Conservative paper; Henry Clay was
editor; later George M. Winn
John Richmond was publisher in 1861;
was a 7 column, 4 page paper; its
slogan: Improvement, improvement,
improvement
Windsor's Community Museum:
1860: July 20th; 1861: Feb. 22nd
Archives of Ontario: 1855: Dec.
7th (v.1: no. 32)
National Library: 1856: July 25th
Published Fridays; Source: Butcher's;
formed by the merger of the Chronicle
and the Advance; owned originally by
John Stafford and George Laing; in
December, 1885 was bought by Dr.
James Brien and became the Essex
Liberal (Source: A brief sketch of the
County of Essex)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1918: Aug. 24th-1919: Aug.
16th
Windsor Public: 1918 - 1935
(microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1919: Dec. 31st
Windsor Star Office: 1917 1935
British National Library: 1918:
Sept. 3rd (new ser. v.1 : no. 1) 1918: Nov. 11th
Continued by the Windsor Star;
supersedes Evening Record and Essex
Record
Archives of Ontario: 1918: Sept.
3rd - 1919: Dec. 31st (microfilm);
1922: Mar. 4th, July 28th; 1925:
Sept. 5th, Dec. 31st; 1926: Mar.
30th; 1927: June 18th; 1928: Feb.
25th, Nov. 10th, Dec. 8th; 1929:
Nov. 9th, Dec. 28th; 1931: Apr. 4th,
Apr. 6th, Apr. 9th, Apr. 10th; 1934:
Mar. 10th; 1935: May 4th, May
18th, May 25th (paper)
Halton Region Museum: [1918:
Aug. 24th - 1919: Aug.]
University of Western Ontario:
[1918 - 1935] (microfilm)
Willoughby Historical Museum:
1921: [Feb. 19th]; 1930: [no. 1]
Border Cities Sun
Sun
British Canadian
Canada Oak
Windsor
Sandwich
Sandwich
1920: Sept. 8th - 1920:
Dec. 31st
1857
1850 - 1856?
Daily
None
Weekly
Weekly
None
None
Evening Edition
National Library: 1855: Dec. 15th
Archives of Ontario: 1854: Mar.
3rd, Mar. 10th
Canada Roumanian
Ford City
1924 - 1925?
Canadai Hatarvarosok Hiradoja
Canadian Border Cities Herald
Windsor
1929 - 1930
Semimonthly
Weekly
None
None
Published by D. A. McMullen; in the
issue: May 13th, 1853, the motto read:
"Hold Fast The Mother Sod"
Published in Roumanian by "Committee
35"
Primarily a Hungarian language
publication
Canadian Emigrant and Western
District Advertiser (1831 - 1834:
Feb.)
Canadian Emigrant and Western
District Weekly Advertiser (1834:
Mar. 8th – 1835: June 20th)
Canadian Emigrant and Western
District Commercial and General
Advertiser (1835: June - 1837?)
Sandwich Emigrant (1831?)
Sandwich
1831-1837
Weekly
[1831 - 1836]
(microfilm CS;
damaged;
AN.C274)
Windsor Public: [1831: Dec. 1st 1834: Feb.]
Windsor's Community Museum:
[1831 - 1836] (microfilm)
Metro Toronto Library:
Newspapers Microform: 1831:
Dec. 1st (v.1: no.3) - 1836: Sept.
20th (microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: 1832: Apr.
28th, Oct. 13th; 1833: Sept. 28th;
1834: June 14th; 1835: Aug. 8th,
Sept. 12th (paper); [1831: Dec. 1st
- 1836: Sept. 20th] (microfilm)
University of Guelph: 1831 - 1836
(microfilm)
Suspended publication: 1832: June 29th
- Sept. 22nd; 1832: no. 3 - 1833: June
29th; 1833: Dec. 28th - 1834: Jan. 25th;
published Thursday mornings, later
Saturday mornings, then Thursday
mornings again; published by John
Cowan of Sandwich; the office was in
the ware-rooms of the late John
McGregor, Esq. - at the corner of
Russell and Mill streets (from paper
itself); edited by James M. Cowan?
(Township of Sandwich, 1901)
University of Western Ontario:
1852: Mar. 13th (v.1: no. 13)
(paper); [1831 - 1836] (microfilm)
+ others with 1831 - 1836
microfilm
Canadian Workman
Essex Centre
1881?-1883?
Monthly;
Semi-Monthly
None
Canadien
Windsor
1891-189?
Weekly
National Library: 1891: Sept. 5th
Churchman
Sandwich
1856
Monthly
1891: juillet 25
(microfilm;
AN.C325)
None
Clairon
Windsor Clairon
Windsor
no. 1 (1913: sept. 25)
– no. 15 (1914)
Weekly
1913: no. 1, no.
2, no. 5
(microfilm;
AN.C524)
Universite Laval: Bibliotheque
Generale: 1913: Sept. 25th - Oct.
2nd (microfilm)
Published by the Ancient Order of
United Workmen in Canada; published
out of the Essex Chronicle office; its
circulation in 1882 was 3,000 (Ayer
Newspaper Annual); may also have
been published in Orillia at some point
French language publication; published
by Telesphore St.-Pierre (76 Lewis St.,
Detroit)
Published by the Reverand E. H.
Dewar, rector of St. John's, Sandwich
French language publication; published
by the Windsor Publishing Co.;
publisher: Mr. Lavergne
University of Ottawa: 1913: no.1 1914: no. 15 (microfilm)
Clarion
Windsor Clarion
Windsor
1885 - 1915?
Weekly
None
Coiled Spring
Walkerville
189? - 189?
Monthly
None
Comber Herald
Herald
Comber
1890-1967
Weekly
None
Comber Independent
Comber
1883: Aug. 9th – 1890
Weekly
None
Windsor's Community Museum:
1885: Nov. 27th; 1887: July 9th;
1888: Dec. 29th; 1891: Dec. 12th
Essex County Public: 1892:
Jan. - 1894: Dec.; 1897: Jan. 1899: Dec.; 1900: Jan. - 1902:
Dec.; 1906: Jan. - 1917: Dec.;
1920: Jan. - 1964: Dec.
(microfilm)
National Library: 1913-1914
(microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: 1886: Jan.
9th
Archives of Ontario: 1894: Sept.
15th
Archives of Ontario: 1943: Mar.
4th
Published Saturdays; published and
edited by Charles D. Clark (1888); had
a popular column called "The Corner
Loafer"; office at the corner of Ouellette
Avenue and Pitt Street
Established by Charles Clark; was
absorbed by the Tilbury Times in 1967
Published Thursdays (source:
Butcher’s); A. Ed Lovelace was
owner/publisher in late 1880s (source:
Detroit Free Press 1889-1890); Alfred
Mellish is named as the founder
(source: Comber Herald 1894)
Courrier
Courrier De L'Ouest
Courrier D'Essex
Windsor
Windsor
Detroit
Windsor
1908 - 1909?
1885 - 1886?
1884: aout 8 - 1885
Weekly
Weekly
Weekly
1908: v. 1: no.
1 - 1908: v.1:
no. 2;
1908/1909: v.1:
no. 40 - v.1: no.
41 (microfilm;
AN.C68)
National Library: 1908: avril 2 (v.
1: no. 1)
1885: v. 3: no.3
- v.3: no.4;
1885/1886: v.4:
no. 10, no. 23
(microfilm;
AN.C6832)
Archives of Ontario: 1885: June
27th, July 4th, Dec. 18th; 1886: Jan.
29th-May 7th (microfilm)
1884: v. 1: no.
1 - 1885: v. 2:
no. 8
(microfilm;
AN.C683
Archives of Ontario: 1884: Aug.
8th; 1885: Jan. 17th (microfilm)
Daily Dominion
Dominion
Windsor
Sandwich
1865?-1876?
Daily/Weekly
None
Daily Herald and Windsor Review
Defense
Windsor
Windsor
1901: Dec. 11th - 190?
1918: Mar. 7th - 1920:
Sept 2nd?
Daily
Weekly
None
1918: mars 7
(v.1) - 1920?
(microfilm;
AN.D3583)
Drapeau National
Essex Advocate
Canada Advertiser and Essex
Advocate
Essex Centre Chronicle
Chronicle
Windsor
1891 - 1892?
Weekly
Archives of Ontario:1908: April
2nd, April 9th, Dec. 31st; 1909: Jan.
7th (v.1: no. 41)(microfilm)
University of Ottawa: 1884 - 1885
(microfilm)
1851? - 1853?
Weekly
None
Essex Centre
1879: May - 1885
Weekly
None
French language publication; continues
Courrier D'Essex
Published Fridays; office was at 13
Ouellette Ave., Windsor; also offices at
50 Larned St., Detroit and 34
Davenport St., Detroit
French language publication; continued
by Courrier De L'Ouest; published at 13
Oullette Avenue and edited by A.
Bodard
Published Saturdays
May have started in the mid to late
1860s (Evening Record 1904/01/23 p.
3); was still publishing Jan. 13th, 1872;
established by Messrs. John Richmond
(from Colchester) and White, in
Windsor; then purchased by Messrs.
McKee and John L. Murdoch who
moved the plant to Sandwich (lot 5,
West Bedford St., then lot 8, West
Bedford); John L. Murdoch(k) was
owner/publisher until 1874; then moved
back to Windsor and run as a weekly
and daily by James C. Murdoch(k) and
Brothers; at some point was owned by
Major John Lewis; had a conservative
political viewpoint
Windsor's Community Museum:
1875: Jan. 19th
National Library: 1901: Dec. 11th
Listed in Vernon’s 1919/1920:
published by The Franco-Canadian
Printing Co.; owner: Antonio Lussier;
Address: 16 Pitt St. W. ; Phone: 478
Essex County Public: 1918: July
19th - 1920: Apr. 2nd (microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1918: Mar. 7th 1920: Sept. 2nd (microfilm)
1891: no. 1 1892: no. 9
(microfilm;
AN.D72)
Sandwich
French language publication; published
by W. T. Jacques and edited by F. X.
Chauvin; 1908 office was in the White
Block, 15 Sandwich St. W., room 2:
phone 68; 1909: moved to the
Thompson Building, Pitt St.; Paul Caty
became editor
National Library: 1891: nov. 20
Universite Laval: 1892: avr. 29
(microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1851: no. 20; 1853: Jan. 20th,
Feb. 3rd
Windsor's Community Museum:
1880: Aug. 27th
French language publication; published
and edited by G. Vekeman
1891: nov. 20 (no. 1) online at FrenchCanadian Newspapers: An Essential
Historical Source (Library and Archives
Canada):
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/can
adian-newspapers-french/index-e.html
Publisher: A.C. Morton
Archives of Ontario: 1882: Feb.
17th
Published firstly by Robert Fair;
address: 16 Talbot St., Essex Centre;
Essex Chronicle
Essex County Standard
Daily Standard
Windsor Daily Standard
Windsor
1900? - 1910?
Weekly
None
Essex Free Press
Free Press
Essex
1892 - present
Weekly
1895 - 1922;
1924 - 1968
(microfilm CS;
AN.E75)
National Library: 1903: Dec. 15th
Essex County Public: current
issues; 1969: Jan. - 1984
(microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1969 - present
(microfilm)
Essex Journal
Sandwich
1862? -187?
Weekly
None
Windsor's Community Museum:
1862: Apr. 29th
Essex Liberal
Essex Centre Liberal
Liberal
Essex Centre
1885 - 1892
Weekly
None
Windsor's Community Museum:
1886: Aug. 27th
National Library: 1901: Nov. 22nd;
1967: June 30th, July 7th
merged with the Advance to become
the Argus (Source:
http://oldtimecorner.ca/archives/essex_
free_press.html); later published by
John Milne (Garden Gateway to
Canada, p. 92)
Started by Joseph McKee and Charles
L. Barker; Oscar E. Fleming then
became the largest shareholder; then
Mr. George M. Winn became editor and
manager; then F. J. Hughes (Township
of Sandwich, 1909)
1895 – 2009 digitized at:
http://ink.ourontario.ca
First owners: Henry and Frank Walters.
For history: see
http://oldtimecorner.ca/archives/essex_
free_press.html
Was still publishing Jan. 13th, 1872;
started by James Woodbridge
(Sandwich); was bought out by the
Essex Record; moved to Windsor in
March 1865 (Garden Gateway to
Canada, p. 110)
Published Fridays; Butcher’s says
established 1885; continues the Argus;
first owner: Dr. James Brien; continued
by the Essex Free Press (Source: A
brief sketch of the county of Essex)
Essex Record
Windsor Record
Essex Record And Journal
Record and Essex County Chronicle
Weekly Record
Tri-Weekly Record
Windsor Record And Essex County
Chronicle
Essex Review
Windsor Review
Review
Windsor
1860? - 1918?
Weekly
(mainly), SemiWeekly, TriWeekly, Daily
1871: Nov. 16th
- 1882: Nov. 9th
(microfilm CS;
incomplete?;
AN.E83)
Essex County Public: [1871:
Nov. 16th - 1882: Nov. 9th]
(microfilm)
Windsor Public: [1871 - 1882]
1892 - 1918: Aug. (microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1864: May 29th; 1865: May 30th,
June 6th, July 15th; 1876: May
26th - 1881: Dec. 29th; 1882:
Feb. 2nd - Mar. 23rd, June 29th Sept. 21st, Nov. 2nd - Dec. 7th;
1883: May 17th; 1884: June
14th, Dec. 13th; 1885: Apr. 11th,
Apr. 15th, July 22nd, Dec. 26th;
1886: Jan. 2nd, Jan. 23rd, Feb.
5th, Feb. 19th, Feb. 26th, July 2nd;
1894: Apr. 20th
Essex
Windsor
1878? - 1899?
Weekly
None
Essex Times
Windsor
1876-1878
Weekly
None
L'Etoile Canadienne
Sandwich
1870? - 1881?
Weekly
None
Archives of Ontario: 1870: Dec.
5th?; 1884: Jan. 9th; 1886: Jan. 9th
McGill University: McLennan:
1865: Mar. 7th
University of Western Ontario:
1879: Jan. 2nd, Jan. 16th, May 15th
Universite Laval: 1894: Jan. 5th
Windsor's Community Museum:
1885: Dec. 25th; 1899: July 28th
University of Western Ontario:
1885: Nov. 13th (v. 8: no. 1)
Windsor Public: 1885: June 1886: Feb. (microfilm); 1895:
Jan. - 1896: Feb. (microfilm)
National Library: 1889: Feb. 15th
Archives of Ontario: 1885: Jan.
16th; 1886: Jan. 8th; 1893: Feb.
16th
Continued by Border Cities Star; see
also Evening Record (which was the
daily edition)
From Windsor, Ontario, 1913:
1860-1869: Publisher: Mr. P. G. Laurie
1863-1864: tri-weekly
1864-1865 there were 2 editions: a
weekly edition published on Saturday
and a tri-weekly edition published
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays
1869-1870: Publisher: Alexander
Cameron
1870: Newspaper office burned down
1870: re-established by Stephen Lusted
1877: tried to have an additional daily
edition; failed after 2 months-> back to
weekly only
1882-1890: Publishers: Robert Barr,
then his sons (William, John, and
James), then Mr. Wallace Graham
1890-: Archibald McNee and John A.
McKay ran both the Weekly Record and
the Evening Record (see below)
1915: both the daily and the weekly
were still being published in 1915 (at 36
Sandwich W.) (Vernon’s 1915)
1918: daily
May have started October 1861
(Garden Gateway to Canada, p. 110)
Called Essex Review until 1890? and
published in Essex; afterwards
published in Windsor
Butcher's: says started 1878; published
Fridays
Established by C. Cliff; then purchased
by T. M. White; then F. H. Macpherson;
conservative leaning/interests
(Township of Sandwich 1909)
Publishing Oct. 26th, 1876; published on
Sandwich St.; conservative
leaning/interests (Township of
Sandwich, 1909); published
Wednesdays; John Lewis was editor
and publisher; circulation 1,000; 4
pages: 28x44 inches; subscription:
$1.50
Published by Thomas McKee?;
established by Mr. Truax; published by
Joseph A. Ouellette; last edition printed
from the Free Press office in Detroit
Evening Record
Daily Record
Windsor Record
Windsor Evening Record
Windsor Daily Record
Record
Windsor
1890: April - 1918:
Aug. 31st
Daily
1893: Jan. 3rd 1918: May 31st
(microfilm;
AN.W53)
Windsor Public: 1893-1918
Windsor's Community Museum:
1902: Jan. 31st
Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin
Room: 1904: June 1st (v.15: no.
56) - 1917: May 23rd?
From Windsor, Ontario, 1913:
National Library: 1917: May 23rd
Windsor Star Office: 1897 1918
Archives of Ontario: 1895: Dec.
10th - 1918: Aug. 31st (microfilm)
McMaster University: [1893 1918] (microfilm)
Feuille D'Erable
Maple Leaf
Continued by Border Cities Star, later
Daily Star
Tecumseh
1931: Jan. 29th – 1958
(v. 28)
Weekly
None
Windsor Public: 1931: Jan. 1958: Dec. (microfilm?)
National Library: 1949: mai 26;
[1953: jan. 2 - 1954: dec. 30]
University of Western Ontario:
1953: dec. 24 (v. 23: no. 51)
1890- Archibald McNee and John A.
McKay ran both the Evening Record
and the Weekly Record (see above);
Mr. McNee retired in 1906
- both the daily and the weekly (see
above) were still being published in
1915 (at 36 Sandwich W.) (Vernon’s
1915)
Suspended publication from 1954: juin
18 - dec. 22; in French and English;
founded and published by the Hon.
Gustave Lacasse
Welland Public: 1931: janv. –
1958: dec. (microfilm)
Assemblee Nationale du Quebec.
Bibliotheque – 1944: janv. 13 –
1957: dec. 26
Free Lance
Glas Kanadskih Srba
Voice of Canadian Serbs
Windsor
Windsor
Toronto
188?-1893?
1944: Jan. 6th present
Weekly
Weekly
None
None
Windsor Public: current issues
Metro Toronto Library: [1966: Jan.
- present]
National Library: [1944: Jan. 6th present]
Archives of Ontario: 1981: Jan. 7th
– 1987: Dec. 31st
Harrow News
Harrow
1954 – present
Weekly
None
Harrow Sentinel
Harrow
1900-1907?
Weekly
None
Independent Canada
Windsor
Weekly
None
Independent du Canada
Windsor
1895: Dec. 23rd 1896?
1891: fevr. 1? - 1892?
Weekly?
1892: mars 25
(microfilm;
AN.I38)
Edited by James McCallum
Serbian language publication with an
English section since 1965: Sept.;
published in Windsor since 1945: Nov.
15th; continues Glas Kanade/Voice of
Canada which was published in
Toronto; the official organ of the
Serbian National Shield Society since
1945
Essex County Public: 1954 –
present (microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: 1907: Mar.
7th
National Library: 1895: Dec. 23rd
Universite Laval: Bibliotheque
Generale: 1892: Mar. 25th
French language publication;
agriculture, commerce, industry, politics
Kingsville Reporter
Essex County Reporter
Reporter
Kingsville
1876 - present
Weekly
1893 - 2001:
Dec. 18th
(microfilm;
FC3099.K56
K55)
Essex County Public: current
issues; 1969: Jan. - 1984: Dec.
(microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1893 – 1902;
1904 – 1951; 1953 – 1984
(microfilm); 1985 – (microfiche)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1891: Feb. 20th
Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin
Room: 1944: Apr. 10th
Known as the Essex County Reporter
from 1939 – 1947
National Library: [1952]; 1967:
June 29th, Nov. 23rd
Published Fridays
1904: W. H. Hellems was editor
Archives of Ontario: 1941: Oct.
9th; 1944: Apr. 10th, April 13th?,
Nov. 9th ; [1951 – 1952]
University of Toronto: 1944: Apr.
10th
University of Western Ontario:
[1952]; 1953: Sept. 17th
Leamington News
Leamington Post
Post And News
Post
Erie Post
News
Leamington Post And News
Leamington
Leamington
1896?-1911
1874 - present
Weekly
Weekly
None
1907 - 1995:
Dec. (microfilm;
AN.L45)
Essex County Public: current
issues; 1969: Jan. - 1984: Dec.
(microfilm)
Leamington Public: 1985 - ;
1907 - 1984 (microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1907 – 1984;
1998 – present (microfilm);
1985 – 1997 (microfiche)
Post and News Office: 1906 to
present
Archives of Ontario: 1896: Jan. 7th
(Erie Post); [1878 – 1908] (Post);
[1939, 1953, 1965] (Post and
News)
Publisher: E. McKay
The Leamington Post, founded in 1874,
purchased the Leamington News,
(founded in 1896?), in 1911 (Murray);
Published Thursdays
University of Western Ontario:
1876: July 13th (v.3: no. 10 or no.
114); 1878: Jan. 17th, July 18th;
1879: Mar. 27th; 1885: Dec. 10th;
1890: Sept. 11th; 1893: Aug. 3rd
National Library: 1907 – 1912
(microfilm); 1899/1900
Christmas/New Year Suppl.
(Leamington Post); 1911: June –
1912: Dec.; 1967: Sept. 14th,
Sept. 21st (paper)
Archives of Ontario: 1939: Mar.
23rd
University of Toronto: 1927: June
23rd
Leamington Times
Times
Leamington Tribune
Leamington
1891
Weekly
None
Leamington
188?-188?
Weekly
None
Maple Leaf
Sandwich Maple Leaf
Amherstburg Maple Leaf
My Som Tu
We Are Here
Sandwich
Amherstburg
1856 - 1861
Weekly
None
Windsor
1941: May 25th 1941:June?
Monthly
v.1: no. 1 (1941)
- no. 22 (1942)
(Leddy Rare;
D731.O37)
New Eve Success
Windsor
1899: Mar. 31st? 1899?
Weekly
None
University of Western Ontario:
1953: Sept. 17th, Oct. 15th; [1966]
National Library: 1891: no. 12
Windsor's Community Museum:
[1856 - 1858]; 1860: Nov. 20th,
Dec. 26th; [1861]
University of Western Ontario:
1857: June 4th (v.2: no. 15)
National Library: 1899: May 5th
Information from the Windsor Evening
Record 1904: Jan. 23rd, p. 7
Published by James H. Wilkinson in a
brick office on lot 2, east Bedford St.;
later published by John Cowan?
Polish language publication; some
English?; published by the recruiting
station of the Polish Armed Forces in
Canada; continued by Odsiecz/Fighting
Poland
North Essex News
Belle River North Essex News
Lakeshore News
News
Belle River
1947: July - present
Weekly;
SemiMonthly
Odsiecz
Fighting Poland
Windsor
1941: July - 1942: Apr.
Weekly
Presse - Frontiere
Windsor
Tecumseh
1921 - 1922?
Weekly
Progres
Progress
Windsor
1881: juin 1. - 1920?
Weekly
None
Essex County Public: 1970 –
1984 (microfilm); current issues
Windsor Public: 1969 – 1984
(microfilm); 1986 – 1999
(microfiche)
v.1: no. 1 (1941)
- no. 22 (1942)
(Leddy Rare;
D731.O37)
None
1888: sept. 6;
1890: juill. 24,
juill. 31; 1891:
mars 12; 1897:
juin 3 (microfilm;
AN.P76)
Archives of Ontario: 1949: May 6th
Semi-monthly: 1947-1949
National Library: 1967: Apr. 13th,
Sept. 7th, Sept. 14th; 1968: Oct.
3rd
Windsor Public: 1921: Nov.
10th - 1922: June 22nd
(microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1887: Oct. 27th; 1889: June
20th; 1901: May 23rd
National Library: 1921: Nov. 10th –
1922: June 22nd (microfilm)
In Polish and English; Continues My
Som Tu; contains reports from Polish
military camps in Windsor and Owen
Sound
French language publication; published
by Seguin Freres
St. Thomas More College:
Shannon Library: 1881: July 6th
(v.1: no. 6)
French language publication; founded
by Aurele Pacaud and edited by
Gaspard Pacaud
Windsor Public: 1881:juin1890:juin
Archives of Ontario: 1881: July 7th
Published Thursdays
Universite Laval: Bibliotheque
Generale: 1897: Jan. 3rd
(microfilm)
Still publishing in 1919/1920 at 16 Pitt
St. W. (Vernon’s 1919/1920)
Musee de la Civilisation.
Bibliotheque du Seminaire de
Quebec. Fond Ancien: 1888: janv.
5 – 1891
Provincial Freeman
Provincial Freeman and Weekly
Advertiser
Windsor
Toronto
1853: Mar. 24th - 1857:
Sept. 20th?
Weekly
National Library: 1888: sept. 6 –
1897: Juin 3 (microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: [1853 - 1857]
(microfilm)
1854: v. 1 1857: v.4
(microfilm;
HT851.P76)
University of Toronto: [1853 1857] (microfilm)
University of Waterloo: [1853 –
1857] (microfilm)
University of Pennsylvania
Library: 1853: Mar. 24th; 1854:
Mar. 25th; 1857: Sept. 12th?
Chatham Public: 1853: Mar. 24th;
[1854: Mar. 25th - 1857: Sept. 20th]
(microfilm)
National Library: 1854: Mar. 24th
(v.1: no. 1) – 1857: Sept. 6th (v.3:
no. 51) (microfilm)
Toronto Public Main Reference:
1854: Nov. 18th; 1856: July 31st
(paper); 1855 – 1857 (microfilm)
Riverside News
News
Riverside
Windsor
1946 - present
Weekly
None
Essex County Public: [1948:
Mar. 11th - 1973: Dec. 21st]
(microfilm)
Windsor Public: [1948] - 1973
(microfilm)
Published in Windsor from 1853 - 1854:
Mar.; published in Toronto from 1854:
Mar. - 1855: June; published in
Chatham from 1855: Aug. 22nd - 1857;
anti-slavery, temperance newspaper;
Samuel R. Ward was first editor
Not published?: 1855: July – Aug. 15th,
Oct. 27th, Dec. 15th; 1856: Jan. 12th,
Aug. 3rd – Nov. 18th, Dec. 20th; 1857:
Jan. 17th, May 23rd
Provincial Freeman: 1853 – 1855: Feb.
Online at: http://ink.ourontario.ca
Royal Forester
Sandwich Courrier
Amherstburg
Sandwich
1854?-185?
1924: Apr. 4th - 1930?
Weekly
None
None
From Vernon’s 1924/1915: “the fastest
growing weekly newspaper in Western
Ontario”; editor: F. Dean VanLuven;
address: 7 Sandwich St. E.; phone:
Seneca 5203M
Essex County Public: [1924:
Apr. 4th - 1930: Apr. 18th]
(microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1924: Apr. 4th 1930: Apr. 18th] (microfilm)
Slovensky Hlas
Slovak Voice
Windsor
Toronto
1949: Apr. - present
Monthly/
Semi-Monthly
None
Tecumseh Tribune
Tecumseh
1959: Jan. - 2012:
Jan. 19th
Weekly
None
National Library: [1949: Apr. present]
Published in Slovak and English;
published in Windsor from 1949 - 1951;
published in Toronto from 1951
onwards; usually monthly but semimonthly from 1950: May 10th - 1951:
Sept.?; official organ of the Canadian
Slovak Benefit Society
Essex County Public: 1959:
Jan. 30th - 1980: Mar. 27th
Windsor Public: 1972: Jan. 27th
- 1977: Dec. 15th
Tilbury Herald
Tilbury
1884
Weekly
None
Tilbury News
Tilbury
1894-190?
Weekly
None
Tilbury Times
Tilbury
1884: July – present
Weekly
None
Archives of Ontario: [1898: Mar.
11th – 1930: Dec. 25th; 1938:
May 10th]
It was printed in Ridgetown by E.
McKay (of the Ridgetown Plaindealer);
lasted only 3 months (first half of 1884)
(Essex Record 1904/01/23 p.7)
Established by F. Monroe (of
Orangeville); still publishing in 1904; for
an early history, see the Evening
Record (1904/01/23 p. 7)
Established by W. A. Shaw; for an early
history, see the Evening Record
(1904/01/23 p. 7)
Essex County Public: 1960 –
1984 (microfilm)
True Royalist and Weekly
Intelligencer
Windsor
1860? - 1861?
Weekly
Twin City Quill
Quill
Windsor
1890-1891?
Weekly
1860: v.1: no. 4;
1861: v.2: no. 10
(microfilm CS;
AN.T78)
Chatham-Kent Public: [1898 –
1971]; 1973 – 1975; 1978 –
1983 (microfilm); 1984 (paper);
1985 – present (microfiche)
Fort Malden National Historical
Park (Amherstburg): 1860: May
10th (v.1: no. 4); 1861: June 21st
(v. 2: no. 10)
Universal liberty and temperance paper;
published and edited by the Rev. A. R.
Green of the British Methodist
Episcopal Church
Published and edited by James
McCallum; continued by the Windsor
Sentinel (Windsor Evening Record:
1904: Jan. 23rd, p. 7)
Voice of the Fugitive
Windsor
Sandwich
1851: Jan. 1st - 1852
SemiMonthly
1851 - 1852
(microfilm;
incomplete?;
AN.V6)
Windsor Public: [1851 - 1852]
(microfilm)
National Library: [1851: Jan. 1 1852: Dec. 16th] (paper); [1851:
Jan. 1st - 1852: Apr. 8th]
(microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: [1851: Jan.
1st – 1852: Dec. 16th] (microfilm)
Anti-slavery paper; abolitionist paper
founded by Henry Bibb, a fugitive
American slave. After 1852: June 17th
the paper was published and edited by
Bibb and J. T. Holly
1851: Jan. 1st – 1852: Dec. 16th
digitized at: http://ink.ourontario.ca
American Antiquarian Society
(Worcester, Mass): 1851: July 2nd
(v.1: no. 14)
University of Western Ontario:
1851: Mar. 12th (v. 1 :no. 6), Oct.
22nd, Nov. 5th; 1852: Feb. 26th,
Sept. 9th
Various other libraries have same
microfilm holdings
Walkerville Gazette
Walkerville
1913?-191?
Weekly
None
Walkerville Herald
Herald
Walkerville
1890: April 19th –
1913?
Weekly
None
Walkerville Mercury
Mercury
Walkerville
1890: Apr. 19th –
1891: Apr. 11th?
Weekly
Walkerville News
News
Walkerville
1922? – 1936
Weekly
Western Express
Western Express And General
Advertiser
Sandwich
1843 - 1844
Weekly
None
None
1890/1891: v.1
(microfilm;
AN.W23)
Windsor Public: 1890: Apr. 1891: Apr. (microfilm)
National Library: 1890 – 1891
(microfilm)
[1934: v.15 1936: v.17]
(microfilm CS;
AN.W25
Essex County Public: 1934:
Dec. 6th - 1936: Dec. 31st
(microfilm)
Archives of Ontario: 1928: Feb.
9th; 1936: Aug. 6th, Aug. 13th
None
Windsor Public: 1934: Dec. 1936: Dec. (microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1844: Oct. 12th
Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin
Room: 1843: Sept. 30th (v.1:
no.17)
Publishing in 1913 according to
Vernon’s 1913/1914; published by
Morrey Publishing Co. Ltd. At 29
Sandwich St. (ss. Walkerville) – behind
the Wyandotte Hotel?; William H.
Morrey: Vice President; Edward B.
Morrey: Secretary, Treasurer, Manager;
Jas. F. Morrey also worked for the
company
Established by S. Stephenson; edited
and published by John E. Dobie; still
publishing until at least 1913 (Vernon’s
1913/1914) at north side of Assumption,
opposite Kildare Road; published by
Herald Press Ltd.; in 1904 was run by
H. M. Sharpe
Publisher and manager: Charles Clark;
address: 67 Lincoln Road.
Western Herald
Western Herald
Western Herald And Farmers'
Magazine
Amherstburg
Sandwich
1883?-1886?
1838: Jan.3rd – 1842?
Weekly
Weekly
None
1838: Jan. 3rd 1842: Oct. 6th
(microfilm CS;
AN.W42)
Established by C. H. Fuller and
Thomas W. Leigh; N. A. Coste and his
son D. A. Coste were also involved;
only lasted a couple of years
Windsor Public: 1838 - [1842]
(microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
[1838: Jan. 3rd - 1840: Mar.
14th]; 1840: no. 18, Dec. 2nd,
Dec. 9th, Dec. 16th, Dec. 23rd;
[1841: Mar. 31st - 1842: Oct. 6th]
Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin
Room: 1842: June 16th (v.5: no. 9)
- June 23rd, July 18th, Oct. 15th
Was still publishing June 18th, 1886;
possibly owned by Solomon and
Theodore Wigle of Kingsville; Mr.
Robert Golden was briefly an employee;
Essex Free Press: 1926: 04/30, p. 1: in
1886, Henry Beresford Gahan was
editor for the late N. A. Coste
Publisher: Henry C. Grant
British Newspaper Library
(London, England): 1838: Jan. 3rd
(v.1: no.1) - 1839: Feb. 21st
Archives of Ontario: 1839: May
2nd (paper); [1838 - 1842]
(microfilm)
University of Western Ontario:
[1838: Jan. 3rd - 1842: Oct. 6th]
(microfilm)
Various other libraries have same
microfilm holdings
Western Mercury
Western Mercury And Great
Southwestern Railway Advocate
Western Standard
Western Standard And Western
District General Advertiser
Sandwich
1858? - 1859?
Weekly
None
Sandwich
1843 - 1848?
Weekly
None
Windsor's Community Museum:
1858: Feb. 18th, Feb. 25th, Mar.
25th, Apr. 15th
Windsor's Community Museum:
1847: Sept. 18th
National Library: 1858: Apr. 22nd;
1859: July 30th
Township of Sandwich 1909 says it
began in 1858
National Library: 1846: June 20th
Issued by Col. Arthur Rankin; slogan:
“Pro rege, lege, aris et focis”
Archives of Ontario: 1848: Sept.
16th
University of Western Ontario:
1846: Mar. 7th (v. 3: no. 40)
Wheatley Journal
Whizz - Bang
Wheatley
Leamington
Ottawa
1900?-190?
1916: July 1st – 1916:
Nov. 18th?; 1917: July
Weekly
Monthly
None
None
Archives of Ontario: 1917: July (v.
1)
Still publishing in 1904
- published in the interests of the 207th
Battalion
University of Western Ontario:
1917: July
- only 1917: July appears to have been
published in Leamington
Canadian War Museum. Library:
1916: July 1st – 1916: Nov. 18th
Ottawa Public: 1916: 1916: July
1st (no. 1) – 1916: Nov. 4th (no.
19)
Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution & Peace: 1917
Windsor Eclipse and Essex
Advertiser
Eclipse
Essex Advertiser
Windsor Herald
Herald
Windsor
1872 - 1880
Weekly
Windsor
Sandwich
1855: Jan. 6th - 1861
Weekly
None
1855 - 1856
(microfilm;
AN.W52)
Windsor's Community Museum:
1872: Sept. 13th
Windsor Public: [1855: Jan. 6th 1856: Dec. 26th] (microfilm)
Windsor's Community Museum:
[1855 - 1856]; 1857: Feb. 6th,
Feb. 13th; 1858: Aug. 12th, Dec.
9th, Dec. 16th, Dec. 23rd; 1859:
Mar. 17th; 1860: Dec. 27th;
1861: Jan. 11th, Jan. 18th, Aug.
9th (paper); [1855 - 1856]
(microfilm)
Windsor Herald
Herald
Windsor
1901:Dec. - 192?
Weekly
None
Windsor Independent
Independent
Windsor
1891: Feb. 16th 1891?
Weekly
None
Windsor Journal
Windsor
186?-186?
Weekly
None
Windsor Review
Windsor
1878-1903
Weekly
None
Windsor Sentinel
Windsor Standard
Windsor
Windsor
1891? - 1893?
1879?
Weekly
Semi-Weekly
None
None
Windsor Standard
Windsor
1902: Nov. 29th 190?
Weekly/Daily
None
Archives of Ontario: 1878: Feb.
16th
National Library: 1855: May 26th,
June 2nd, June 30th, July 7th; 1857:
May 9th, Oct. 30th; 1859: July 28th
Archives of Ontario: 1855: Jan. 6th
- 1856: Dec. 26th (microfilm)
University of Western Ontario:
1856: Jan. 4th (v.2: no.1), Feb. 1st,
Aug. 29th (paper); [1855 - 1856]
(microfilm)
Published by Joseph P. Conway;
published every Friday in the Curry
Block
"Ever watchful over Commerce and
Agriculture"
Published every Saturday morning at 10
o'clock
Founded by John McEwan; continued
by his son James P. McEwan
+ others have same microfilm
In 1860, the paper was purchased by
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Wade – who
moved the paper to Detroit (Township
of Sandwich, 1909)
National Library: 1891: Feb. 16th
Was started by Whalley and Craig, the
same people who owned the Windsor
Review, at this time (Detroit Free Press
1901: Dec. 1st p.6); was published from
the old Review office for a few months
in 1901 (Evening Record 1904/01/23
p.7); was mentioned in the Border Cities
Era in 1918: Oct. 19, p. 7; in 1918 was
published by A. W. Jackson
Only one issue published?
Founded by James Woodbridge (of
Sandwich); did not publish long; sold
printing press (the “plant”) to P. G.
Laurie of the Essex Record
Established by Mr. Cliff; later purchased
by T. M. White who ran it for many
years; due to failing health he sold the
paper to Mr. F. H. Macpherson who
managed the paper until c.1898; it then
changed hands many times and finally
closed in 1903 (Evening Record
1904/01/23 p.7)
Started by James McCallum
Publishers: Murdoch and Neal;
published Wednesdays and Saturdays;
slogan: “Independent in everything,
neutral in nothing”
Established by Joseph McKee and
Charles L. Barker who bought the
“plant” from the Windsor Review when it
closed?? On Dec. 15th, 1903, the paper
became a daily under the editor: Mr.
James Weir (of Hamilton) (Evening
Record 1904/01/23 p. 7); the weekly
version was published on Saturday at
22 Sandwich St. West; “Conservative
party organ for Essex County”
Windsor Star
Windsor Daily Star
Star
Daily Star
Windsor
1935: June 30th present
Daily
1935 - present
(microfilm;
complete?;
AN.W55)
Windsor Public: current issues;
1935 - present (microfilm)
Windsor Star Office: 1935 present
Archives of Ontario: 1935: June
29th; 1936: May 16th, Dec. 31st;
[1937: July 3rd - 1938: Dec. 3rd];
1939: May 20th, June 8th; [1940];
1941: Jan. 11th, Feb. 14th, Feb.
15th, Feb. 22nd, Aug. 9th; 1943:
Feb. 27th; 1967: Feb. 13th
Continues Border Cities Star
Lambton County Public: [1940 1947]; 1953: May 22nd, May 23rd
University of Western Ontario:
[1893 - 1980] (microfilm)
Various other libraries have misc.
holdings
Windsor Telegram
Telegram
Windsor
1922-1923?
Daily?
None
Windsor Times
Windsor
1891? - 1893
Weekly
None
Windsor World
Windsor
1893 - 190?
Daily/Weekly
None
Listed in Vernon’s 1922/1923;
published by Windsor Telegram
Publishing Co. Ltd.; “Popular evening
paper serving the border municipalities
and Essex County”; address: 127 Ferry
St.; phone: 1420; William H. Adams:
President and General Manager;
Owner: Albert F. Healy (MP for area); in
HC Debates, 1923, p. 2630 he says he
invested $167,000 in the paper;
mentions dispute with Canadian Press
wire service.
Published and edited by James
McCallum
Still publishing in 1904 (Evening Record
1904/01/23 p.7); established by James
Dickinson; it published as a daily from
1893-1894; then as a weekly
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Amicus: Online Catalogue http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/
Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Gilchrist, J. Brian. (1987). Inventory of Ontario Newspapers, 1793 - 1986. Toronto: Micromedia. Leddy Reference: Z6954.C2 I57
Johnson, J. E. (1889). A Brief Sketch of the County of Essex in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Essex, Ontario: J. E. Johnson. http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_04418
McLaren, Duncan. (1973). Ontario Ethno-Cultural Newspapers, 1835 - 1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Leddy Circulating Books: Z6954.C2 M3
Morrison, Neil F. (1954). Garden Gateway To Canada. Windsor: Herald Press, 1954. Leddy Book Collection: FC3095.E8 M67
Murray, Elsie McLeod. (1947). A Check-List of Early Newspaper Files Located in Local Newspaper Offices in Western Ontario. Leddy Circulating Books: F5460.L6W4 no. 12
Neal, Frederick. (1901). Township of Sandwich: Past and Present. Windsor: Frederick Neal. Leddy Rare Books & Special Collections: FC 3095.E8 N43
N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual: 1882 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vols/loc.gdc.sr.sn91012091.00123398749/pageturner.html
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Vlodarchyk, Paul. Essex Free Press http://oldtimecorner.ca/archives/essex_free_press.html
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