The Pembina News Advertiser (1956-1965) was a local newspaper based in Drayton Valley, Alberta, and founded by Art Playford in 1956. It served the region until approximately 1965, when it was succeeded by the Western Review. We’ve digitized a partial run of the paper covering the years 1965-1972, 1980-1989, and 2013-2016.
Delia Times (1919 – 1960) was the local paper from the Village of Delia, Alberta. In addition to local interest, the Delia Times newspaper archive is important as a primary source of information about Violet McCully Barss, who was Reeve of the Village of Delia from 1920 through January 1922 and the first woman to head a municipality in Canada.
The Elk Point Review (1983 – 2020), originally titled the Elk Point Lakeland Review. In 2020, the Bonnyville Nouvelle, Lac La Biche Post, St. Paul Journal and Elk Point Review were amalgamated into the online publication, Lakeland Today.
One of the most common digitization requests we get from local community groups is to digitze their local newspapers. Digitizing local small-town newspapers preserves fragile records of everyday life—births, events, and community stories—that might otherwise be lost to time. These most recent additions have all been in collaboration with local history groups or the publishers themselves.
To expand the Alberta Community Newspaper digitization project, we have partnered with the Alberta Legislative Library and borrowed over +200 rolls of microfilm copies of additional titles. Watch for those going online this summer.
