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 / Place(s) ofPublication / Dates of Publication / Frequency / UW Holdings / Other Essex Co. Holdings / Other Holdings / Notes
?Name Unknown / Sandwich / 1844 / Weekly / None / Published by Thomas Ireland
Advance / Essex Centre / 1882 - 1885 / Weekly / None / Established by John Stafford; merged with the Chronicle to become the Argus
Ahbarijiet Ta' Malta
Malta News / Windsor / 1954: Apr. - 1965: Nov. (v. 2: no. 4) / Monthly / None / McMaster University: 1954 - 1965 (microfilm) – missing 1965: May/June
National Library: 1954 - 1965 (microfilm)
Simon Fraser University: 1954-1965 (microfilm) / 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
Amherstburg Courier
Western District Advertiser
Courier / Amherstburg / 1849: March 10th - 1854? / Weekly / 1849: no. 1 - 1850: No. 48 (microfilm: incomplete?; AN.A55) / Windsor Public: 1849: March-1850: Feb. 9th (microfilm: incomplete)
Windsor's Community Museum: 1850: Aug. 31st / Metro Toronto Library: Baldwin Room: 1850: Nov. 23rd (v.2: no. 37)
Archives of Ontario: 1851: July 5th
National Library: 1849: March 10th - 1850: Feb. 9th (microfilm: incomplete) / 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
Amherstburg Echo
Echo / Amherstburg / 1874: Nov. 20th - 2012 / Weekly / 1874: Nov. 20th - 1982: Dec. 29th (microfilm; AN.A56) / Essex County Public: 1969: Jan. - 1984: Dec. 26th (microfilm); current issues
Windsor Public: [1896] - 1918; [1935] - 1939; 1969 - / St. Thomas More College (Sask.), Shannon Library: 1880?: Oct. 22nd
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 / Established by Hon. William D. Balfour and Mr. John A. Auld
Amherstburg Leader / Amherstburg / 189?-189? / Weekly / None / Conservative paper; Henry Clay was editor; later George M. Winn
Amherstburg Observer And Agricultural Record For the County of Essex
Observer / Amherstburg / 1860?-1861? / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1860: July 20th; 1861: Feb. 22nd / John Richmond was publisher in 1861; was a 7 column, 4 page paper; its slogan: Improvement, improvement, improvement
Amherstburg Telegraph
Telegraph / Amherstburg / 1855-1856? / Weekly / None / Archives of Ontario: 1855: Dec. 7th (v.1: no. 32)
National Library: 1856: July 25th
Argus / Essex Centre / 1885 / Weekly / None / 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)
Beaver / Windsor / 188?-188? / Weekly / None
Border Cities Era / Windsor / 1918-192? / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum:
1918: Aug. 24th-1919: Aug. 16th
Border Cities Star / Windsor / 1918:Sept. 3rd - 1935: June 28th / Daily / 1918: Sept. 3rd - 1935: June 28th (microfilm; AN.W54) / 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
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] / Continued by the Windsor Star; supersedes Evening Record and Essex Record
Border Cities Sun
Sun / Windsor / 1920: Sept. 8th - 1920: Dec. 31st / Daily / None / Evening Edition
British Canadian / Sandwich / 1857 / Weekly / None
Canada Oak / Sandwich / 1850 - 1856? / Weekly / None / National Library: 1855: Dec. 15th
Archives of Ontario: 1854: Mar. 3rd, Mar. 10th / Published by D. A. McMullen; in the issue: May 13th, 1853, the motto read: "Hold Fast The Mother Sod"
Canada Roumanian / Ford City / 1924 - 1925? / Semi-monthly / None / Published in Roumanian by "Committee 35"
Canadai Hatarvarosok Hiradoja
Canadian Border Cities Herald / Windsor / 1929 - 1930 / Weekly / None / 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)
University of Western Ontario: 1852: Mar. 13th (v.1: no. 13) (paper); [1831 - 1836] (microfilm)
+ others with 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)
Canadian Workman / Essex Centre / 1881?-1883? / Monthly; Semi-Monthly / None / 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
Canadien / Windsor / 1891-189? / Weekly / 1891: juillet 25 (microfilm; AN.C325) / National Library: 1891: Sept. 5th / French language publication; published by Telesphore St.-Pierre (76 Lewis St., Detroit)
Churchman / Sandwich / 1856 / Monthly / None / Published by the Reverand E. H. Dewar, rector of St. John's, Sandwich
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)
University of Ottawa: 1913: no.1 - 1914: no. 15 (microfilm)
National Library: 1913-1914 (microfilm) / French language publication; published by the Windsor Publishing Co.; publisher: Mr. Lavergne
Clarion
Windsor Clarion / Windsor / 1885 - 1915? / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1885: Nov. 27th; 1887: July 9th; 1888: Dec. 29th; 1891: Dec. 12th / Archives of Ontario: 1886: Jan. 9th / 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
Coiled Spring / Walkerville / 189? - 189? / Monthly / None / Archives of Ontario: 1894: Sept. 15th
Comber Herald
Herald / Comber / 1890-1967 / Weekly / None / Essex County Public: 1892: Jan. - 1894: Dec.; 1897: Jan. - 1899: Dec.; 1900: Jan. - 1902: Dec.; 1906: Jan. - 1917: Dec.; 1920: Jan. - 1964: Dec. (microfilm) / Archives of Ontario: 1943: Mar. 4th / Established by Charles Clark; was absorbed by the Tilbury Times in 1967
Comber Independent / Comber / 1883: Aug. 9th – 1890 / Weekly / None / 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 / Windsor / 1908 - 1909? / 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)
Archives of Ontario:1908: April 2nd, April 9th, Dec. 31st; 1909: Jan. 7th (v.1: no. 41)(microfilm) / 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
Courrier De L'Ouest / Windsor
Detroit / 1885 - 1886? / Weekly / 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) / 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
Courrier D'Essex / Windsor / 1884: aout 8 - 1885 / Weekly / 1884: v. 1: no. 1 - 1885: v. 2: no. 8 (microfilm; AN.C683 / Archives of Ontario: 1884: Aug. 8th; 1885: Jan. 17th (microfilm)
University of Ottawa: 1884 - 1885 (microfilm) / French language publication; continued by Courrier De L'Ouest; published at 13 Oullette Avenue and edited by A. Bodard
Published Saturdays
Daily Dominion
Dominion / Windsor
Sandwich / 1865?-1876? / Daily/Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1875: Jan. 19th / 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
Daily Herald and Windsor Review / Windsor / 1901: Dec. 11th - 190? / Daily / None / National Library: 1901: Dec. 11th
Defense / Windsor / 1918: Mar. 7th - 1920: Sept 2nd? / Weekly / 1918: mars 7 (v.1) - 1920? (microfilm; AN.D3583) / Essex County Public: 1918: July 19th - 1920: Apr. 2nd (microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1918: Mar. 7th - 1920: Sept. 2nd (microfilm) / Listed in Vernon’s 1919/1920: published by The Franco-Canadian Printing Co.; owner: Antonio Lussier; Address: 16 Pitt St. W. ; Phone: 478
Drapeau National / Windsor / 1891 - 1892? / Weekly / 1891: no. 1 - 1892: no. 9 (microfilm; AN.D72) / National Library: 1891: nov. 20
Universite Laval: 1892: avr. 29 (microfilm) / French language publication; published and edited by G. Vekeman
1891: nov. 20 (no. 1) online at French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (Library and Archives Canada): http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canadian-newspapers-french/index-e.html
Essex Advocate
Canada Advertiser and Essex Advocate / Sandwich / 1851? - 1853? / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1851: no. 20; 1853: Jan. 20th, Feb. 3rd / Publisher: A.C. Morton
Essex Centre Chronicle
Chronicle
Essex Chronicle / Essex Centre / 1879: May - 1885 / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1880: Aug. 27th / Archives of Ontario: 1882: Feb. 17th / Published firstly by Robert Fair; address: 16 Talbot St., Essex Centre; 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)
Essex County Standard
Daily Standard
Windsor Daily Standard / Windsor / 1900? - 1910? / Weekly / None / National Library: 1903: Dec. 15th / 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)
Essex Free Press
Free Press / Essex / 1892 - present / Weekly / 1895 - 1922; 1924 - 1968 (microfilm CS; AN.E75) / Essex County Public: current issues; 1969: Jan. - 1984 (microfilm)
Windsor Public: 1969 - present (microfilm) / National Library: 1901: Nov. 22nd; 1967: June 30th, July 7th / 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
Essex Journal / Sandwich / 1862? -187? / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1862: Apr. 29th / 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)
Essex Liberal
Essex Centre Liberal
Liberal / Essex Centre / 1885 - 1892 / Weekly / None / Windsor's Community Museum: 1886: Aug. 27th / 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