31 August 2013

Port Credit area newspapers online

A handful of issues of newspapers from the Port Credit area, west of Toronto, are added to the collection available through the Canadiana Discovery Portal at http://search.canadiana.ca. They may be found by searching for “Mississauga Library System” at the site, are free and may be searched. Available are:

The Port Credit News, 4 issues between 1927 and 1937;
The Port Credit Weekly, 13 issues between 1938 and 1959;
The Weekly, 12 issues between 1959 and 1967;
The South Peel Weekly, 4 issues between 1968 and 1969.

Halton-Peel Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society in partnership with the Mississauga Library System, funded the availability of these newspapers.

While at the Canadiana site take the opportunity to browse some of the other resources available.

via the OGS eWeekly Update.


1 comment:

Ken McKinlay said...

John,

Thank you for posting this. It just so happens that it is my parents' 50th wedding anniversary today and because of your posting I was able to find the write up of their marriage in 1963 in The Weekly. Before all I had was a clipping from a paper that I suspected was from the Port Credit Weekly but could not confirm. Now I have the full pages (26 Sep 1963, p 21-22) that I can correctly cite as a source.

Ken