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  1. 0828-1785. OCLC number. 1607085. Website. winnipegfreepress.com. The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and ...

  2. Sep 19, 2001 · William F. Luxton was founding owner and editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. From the day the first edition rolled off the presses in 1872, the Winnipeg Free Press has been an integral part of the ...

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    The Manitoba Free Press, an MHS Centennial Business, began publication in 1872. Aside from a name change to Winnipeg Free Press, it is the longest running of the province's newspapers, and the oldest daily (since 1874) west of Toronto. The Free Pressis an invaluable source of information about early life in Manitoba, and microfilm copies at librari...

    Go to the Historical Newspaper Collection at www.ancestry.com by clicking the link on their home page, or go directly to the Manitoba Daily Free Press by clicking here.

    The database is great, if you are prepared to accept its limitations: 1. It covers only the period from 1874 to 1893, and there are many missing pages within this range. 2. The OCR technology used to create the index is far from perfect so search results contain false positives and some pages that should be found are not. 3. It is not possible to c...

    Gordon Goldsborough is First Vice-President and Webmaster of the Manitoba Historical Society, and an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. He is working on two books of early Manitoba history, one of which might even be published within the next couple of years. (Feel free to bug him about it.) He can be reached by email at ggoldsb@cc....

  3. Welcome to The Newspaper Archives of Winnipeg Free Press Every newspaper in the database is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy to quickly explore historical content. Use the archive to gain a local perspective on historical news, to research your family history, or to simply read about a person or event of interest.

  4. Search 2 million Winnipeg Free Press Newspaper Archive - Search Old Newspapers historical newspapers with obituaries, birth records, marriage and divorce records from 1870 to 2020.

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  6. Apr 6, 2021 · The Winnipeg Newspaper Archives contains more than 2 million historical pages from the Winnipeg Free Press and all its earlier titles, such as the Manitoba Free Press. Dating back to 1874, the pages are fully searchable by name, keyword, and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content, research your family history, or simply read about a person or event of interest.