French-Canadian Newspapers (1808-1919)

“French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) presents selected French-language newspapers from across Canada, in a digitized, fully-searchable format. These newspapers form the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) collection of first, final and special editions of French-Canadian newspapers.” (Description taken from the data provider website)

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General Information

Added to the Research Data: March 2021

Last update: March 2021

Update periodicity: No update plans at the moment

Available formats: PDF

Documents’ assets available? No

Documents’ metadata available? No

Data size: 5Gb

Number of files: 789

Copyright: The data and all related documentation are subject to copyright. Please consult the data provider website for more details.

Data Subject Area: Various subjects. Daily life of Canadians during the period 1808-1919.

The Data in Graphs

Available formats in “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) - French-Canadian Newspapers”

The Data Structure

The files are named according to an unknown naming convention. Each PDF should corresponds to one different edition of the resource.

PDF Availability

All documents are available in PDF format.

Full-text availability

Full text is available in PDFs. The original documents have been OCRised, but note that this process is not perfect, especially for old documents that have deteriorated over time and whose text layout and fonts are not always standard.

Metadata Availability

The files have no metadata, but some metadata were extracted from the data provider’s site and assembled into a TSV file that is available with the other files of this dataset. No quality control of the extracted metadata was performed.

Document’s Bibliographic References

There are no references available for French-Canadian Newspapers”