Using News Archives

Many of the following archives are available digitally online, though you can also visit the actual locations of these periodicals.

The CBC

The extent of my research on this source has been through the Digital Archives (http://www.cbc.ca/archives/), though you can also visit the CBC at their location downtown. In the Digital Archives, you are given the option of searching by keyword or looking through their categorized collections. I found the key term search to be a bit difficult, as many topics were not tagged for different key words (i.e. 'indigenous' does not get you anything on 'native') so you could potentially be missing out on some of the information that is actually there. Also, I found that even though the site will tell you your topic has, say, 60 hits, it only shows you a few!

Besides these setbacks, there is definitely a lot of material here, especially for those working in more 20th century problems and interests. I think this archive will be useful to my project, as "news-worthy" issues such as immigration and racism are fairly easy to find. I've also tried to search for some classmate's topics:

Vinh (and Michelle): Some video clips in the archive "Boat People: A Refugee Crisis" that can be perused through a scroll bar here

Kasim: I found quite a bit of material relating to 70s/80s U.K. This video I thought was particularly interesting: Marge

Jesse: an archive called "South Africa's 'race problem'"

Marquita: Not exactly related to your project, but I found an interesting round table discussion from 1970 with female activists, including Black Panther Kathleen Cleever here

Also found were collections on Indigenous issues, Chinese immigration, racism and civil rights in Halifax's "Africville," on Canadian peacekeeping (Rwanda specifically) and some collections on education (though sadly, Tyler, not charter schools!)


The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star are also searchable, though lack the organized "special collections" feature of the CBC.