HOH Newspaper Archive Library

[Canadiens1958]

Great

Apologies if this has been shared already, but I just stumbled across it and it is new to me:

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/index.html

The British Colonist (also known as the Victoria Daily Colonist), a newspaper published in Victoria B.C. has an excellent online archive of their issues from 1858-1920. This is particularly useful because Victoria had a PCHA team from 1912 forward, so there is expanded coverage of that league compared to what you would see reprinted in other cities' papers.

From what I have seen so far, the game summaries that appear in other papers are re-printed versions of the Daily Colonist summaries, with the more homer-slanted lines snipped out.

Great contribution. Valuable link.

 

[Sanf]

Apologies if this has been shared already, but I just stumbled across it and it is new to me:

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/index.html

The British Colonist (also known as the Victoria Daily Colonist), a newspaper published in Victoria B.C. has an excellent online archive of their issues from 1858-1920. This is particularly useful because Victoria had a PCHA team from 1912 forward, so there is expanded coverage of that league compared to what you would see reprinted in other cities' papers.

From what I have seen so far, the game summaries that appear in other papers are re-printed versions of the Daily Colonist summaries, with the more homer-slanted lines snipped out.

Thanks, haven´t seen that one. Though I think I spend too much time with these archives and one more isn´t helping

I don´t remember seeing much stuff from Chicago Tribune here (might have missed) and they have free archives also (before 1991). I don´t remember if there was calendar search with it, but if you type the day that you are looking for it finds it pretty well (E.g. january 7 1932).

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/results/

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I don´t remember seeing much stuff from Chicago Tribune here (might have missed) and they have free archives also (before 1991). I don´t remember if there was calendar search with it, but if you type the day that you are looking for it finds it pretty well (E.g. january 7 1932).

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/results/

Holy **** - I know what I'm doing this weekend!

Good find - I don't have a lot of holes in my Black Hawks goaltenders:
http://hockeygoalies.org/stats/Discrepancies.pdf

Mainly because no one ever wanted to pull Esposito, but I do have significant holes for teams playing against Chicago. Thanks!

Still looking for comparable west coast feeds (Los Angeles, Bay Area, and Vancouver would be a gold standard) for the 1970s and early 1980s.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Great

Thanks, haven´t seen that one. Though I think I spend too much time with these archives and one more isn´t helping

I don´t remember seeing much stuff from Chicago Tribune here (might have missed) and they have free archives also (before 1991). I don´t remember if there was calendar search with it, but if you type the day that you are looking for it finds it pretty well (E.g. january 7 1932).

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/results/

Another great contribution.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Links to digitized Alberta newspapers:

http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/

The yearly search engine is quite useful, even if the page-by-page interface is a little clunky. These are great resources for finding info on early western leagues, especially the Big Four league for which Alberta papers provided local coverage.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Great

Links to digitized Alberta newspapers:

http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/

The yearly search engine is quite useful, even if the page-by-page interface is a little clunky. These are great resources for finding info on early western leagues, especially the Big Four league for which Alberta papers provided local coverage.

Great contribution. Growing trend across Canada. Federal Archives are in the process of being digitalized.

 

[Iain Fyffe]

Links to digitized Alberta newspapers:

http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/

Yeah I've been using that one for years. Excellent site. A couple of others that I've used extensively for the prairie provinces:

Peel's Prairie Provinces

Manitobia (This one appears to be down at the moment, hopefully it's just temporary as it's been very useful to me in the past.)

 

[Canadiens1958]

Great

Yeah I've been using that one for years. Excellent site. A couple of others that I've used extensively for the prairie provinces:

Peel's Prairie Provinces

Manitobia (This one appears to be down at the moment, hopefully it's just temporary as it's been very useful to me in the past.)

Great contribution.

Archival website that require independent funding tend to be down at times.

 

[greyraven8]

Haven't used it much and a lot of it is Olympics related, but they also have some Magazines/Journals from various years - Sporting Life, Sport in History, Journal of Sport History, etc.

'Search the full-text digital collection'

http://www.la84.org/sports-library-digital-collection/

Another one I haven't looked at much but have used a couple time is the Library of Congress - Chronicling America. Much of it goes back too far for use here but it can be of some use.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

 

[Canadiens1958]

1945 Gouret

Evidence from February 7, 1945 that the French expression for hockey "gouret" was still in use in certain articles in the popular press - La Patrie:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DKwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SWAEAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=3740,1689597

 

[greyraven8]

Couple for New York State area:

NYS Historic Newspapers:
http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/

Old Fulton NY Post Cards: Incredibly the work of one man. Apparently started off as postcards and then he got a microfilm scanner and went on to digitizing New York newspapers and beyond:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

Edit: Here's a third one for Brooklyn:
http://bklyn.newspapers.com/

 

[Canadiens1958]

Great

^^^ Great contribution.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Quebec (French Newspaper Resources)

This should help those wishing to research data in the various Québec French newspapers;

BanQ = Québec Library and archives:

http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/journaux-revues/index.html

La Presse since 1984.

Google Newspaper Archives:

La Patrie - perhaps the best source, 1879-1978, weekly starting in 1957 Relatively extensive choice of issues and excellent hockey coverage.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=8AbLer7MMksC&dat=19450205&b_mode=2&hl=fr

Le Canada early 19th century thru early 1950s. Pretty good selection starting in the 1870s, then hit or miss as the end approached.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1EqfMoDn7-AC

Le Petit Journal fairly complete since app 1930 but Google has the archives on a daily grid when it was a weekly. The articles by Charles Mayer, one of hockey's legendary writers are a treat:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=orDZ08hpP44C

 

[Canadiens1958]

1961 Joe Malone Interview

From the Toronto Star, Joe Malone interviewed by Jim Proudfoot about the race to 50 goals that featured Frank Mahovlich. Interesting historical data and comparisons offered by Joe Malone:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar...b=Toronto+Daily+Star+(1900-1971)&desc=Page+31

 

[Killion]

^^^ Yes, those comparisons valid & pretty stark huh?..... Also note right beside that article another on Eddie Shack, trade from NY to Toronto...
That too very interesting.... Be careful C58, one could get lost in those archives very easily.

 

[greyraven8]

Winnipeg Tribune at UofM site - looks like started off as WWI & WWII years but appears to go from 1890-1950.
Sometimes very slow or doesn't load when you click on the thumbnails of the newspapers from your results; sometimes not too bad.
http://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1243378


Canadian Community Digital Archives looks to be a relatively new site - some Sudbury Star and other newspaper online:

http://www.communitydigitalarchives.com/newspapers.html

A little while past when I was briefly looking for some info. in that area all I did find online related to newspapers was the Inco Triangle online:
http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/triangle/

 

[Canadiens1958]

February 21,1955 Montreal Gazette Classic Maurice Richard Ad

Classic advertising for Cinerama, featuring Maurice Richard:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zYItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z5kFAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=6060,4099068

 

[greyraven8]

Classic advertising for Cinerama, featuring Maurice Richard:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zYItAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z5kFAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=6060,4099068

Not sure how many hockey related items can be found but for searching in that general subject (film, broadcasting, etc.) 'lantern' might be useful:

http://lantern.mediahist.org/

 

[tarheelhockey]

Not sure how many hockey related items can be found but for searching in that general subject (film, broadcasting, etc.) 'lantern' might be useful:

http://lantern.mediahist.org/

Certainly there are things in there worth checking out... thanks for the link!

 

[Canadiens1958]

Gems

Not sure how many hockey related items can be found but for searching in that general subject (film, broadcasting, etc.) 'lantern' might be useful:

http://lantern.mediahist.org/

One never knows where or when a gem may be found. Municipal archives, historical societies, are excellent sources.

One of the challenges is figuring out the classification systems of non-hockey
, non-librarian types. Found some gems hidden under a "Children Playing" file.

 

[greyraven8]

Few examples from searching lantern


National Film Archives Catalogue, part II: silent non-fiction films, 1895-1934.
"(ICE HOCKEY (c. 1900) a game of ice hockey is seen in progress with boots being used as goal posts. The background appears to be Canadian. 77ft."
http://archive.org/stream/nationalfilmarch00nati#page/26/mode/1up


'International Photographer' - 1938
photo of hockey dressing room scene from "Duke of West Point" and mentions how the USC hockey coach was an adviser for the hockey scenes.
http://www.archive.org/stream/internationalpho10holl#page/n411/mode/2up


1951 ad for hockey on WJBK Detroit:
http://archive.org/stream/sponsor51spon#page/n162/mode/1up

 

[Canadiens1958]

1957-58 Red Kelly

December 1957 article from La Patrie detailing the Red Wings decision to move Red Kelly to LW alongside Norm Ullman and Gordie Howe.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DlQxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j-IFAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=1900,2984917

Seems that as the 1950s progressed the Red Wings played Kelly at LW or other forward positions. This would go a long way towards explaining Kelly declining Norris and All-Star votes as a defenceman.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Jack Kinsella, Ottawa Citizen, February 14, 1956

Tongue in cheek column about the CAHA and NHL Relationship, youth hockey, Red Dutton and a bit more:

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BvkxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9OMFAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=5289,3070144

Interesting is his proposal of what eventually would morph into the NHL Entry draft of 18 year olds.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Worthwhile Tip

Yeah, Google did away with a lot of the great functionality when they merged their archive engine and web engine. A lot of people have voiced complaints about this and there is now word that Google dedicated engineering hours to "update" the whole thing.

In the interim, you can do two things with Google:

1. Use Google Web Search to find content from 1970 to present
Go to www.google.com and type in your search term and click Enter.
Go to Search tools below the search box.
From the menu that appears, click the Any time drop-down list and select the Custom range option.
In the box that appears, type your specified dates.
The search results you see will be within the dates you entered.

2. Use Google Newspaper to find content earlier than 1970
To locate an article from a scanned newspaper, go to www.google.com and type in site:google.com/newspapers, followed by the search terms you’d like to use. For example, if you’re searching for a scanned article on Bill Gadsby, you would type the following in the search box:

site:google.com/newspapers "Bill Gadsby"

Bumping for a worthwhile tip.

The Bill Gadsby tip above also works for columnists and reporters. If looking for Dink Carroll, Pat Curran, etc articles or columns.

Furthermore it is possible to fine tune the search by using the numerical code for the newspaper. 1946 is the code for The Gazette, a Montréal newspaper that Dink Carroll wrote for. 1946 Dink Carroll within the quotation marks produces The Gazette results.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Lorne Worsely

Played center in Point St. Charles into midget then converted to goalie.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dH4tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A5kFAAAAIBAJ&hl=fr&pg=3864,4226747