Using Quebec City and Montreal Newspapers Online to find Obituaries

by Jacques Gagne

The Digital Collection of Newspapers available online at the Archives nationales du Québec .

This is the link to the Newspaper page at the Archives. http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/revues_journaux/liste_journaux_reg_qc/index.html?language_id=3

Quebec City – The Quebec Chronicle 1847-1924 (excellent for family obits).  This newspaper had many name changes;

Quebec City – Morning Chronicle 1847-1850 (excellent for family obits)

Quebec City – Morning Chronicle and Commercial and Shipping Gazette 1850-1898 (mixed results in regard to family obits)

Quebec City – Quebec Morning Chronicle 1888-1898 (excellent for family obits)

Quebec City – Quebec Mercury – 1805-1903 (the best source in Quebec City during that period of time for family obits of English speaking families of the region)

Quebec City – The Quebec Gazette – 1892-1898 (not a good source for family obits)

Quebec City – The Quebec Chronicle and Gazette – 1898-1906 (I have never used this newspaper)

Quebec City – Quebec Weekly Chronicle – 1888-1892 (I have never used this newspaper)

Montreal – The Montreal Witness – 1845-1938 (I have never used this newspaper in regard to family obits, my primary sources were the Montreal Gazette and the Montreal Daily Star)

Montreal – Daily Witness – 1874-1893 (I have never used this newspaper)

Montreal – The Vindicator – 1828-1837 – (A newspaper about the Irish people of Montreal)