Canadian Newspaper Clippings of WWII
Sunday September 28, 2003
The Canadian War Museum has launched an online archives of press clippings from the Second World War. Democracy at War contains 144,000 articles from the newspaper clippings morgue of The Hamilton Spectator. The archive of clippings is fully searchable and clippings are in PDF format.
During World War II, The Hamilton Spectator kept subject files of clippings of news stories and editorials from its own editions and from other Toronto newspapers like The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Daily Star and The Toronto Telegram. The files also include some clippings from The Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Tribune, Ottawa Citizen, Financial Post, Canadian Business and even The New York Times.
Remember when using these files for research that the clippings are primarily from Toronto area publications, so they show an English central-Canada bias. Also, censorship and propaganda in the war years add a positive spin to the stories. Nevertheless these newspaper clippings bring an immediacy to the events, both large and small, of World War II.
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During World War II, The Hamilton Spectator kept subject files of clippings of news stories and editorials from its own editions and from other Toronto newspapers like The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Daily Star and The Toronto Telegram. The files also include some clippings from The Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Tribune, Ottawa Citizen, Financial Post, Canadian Business and even The New York Times.
Remember when using these files for research that the clippings are primarily from Toronto area publications, so they show an English central-Canada bias. Also, censorship and propaganda in the war years add a positive spin to the stories. Nevertheless these newspaper clippings bring an immediacy to the events, both large and small, of World War II.
More: Canada and World War II
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