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Founded as The Manitoba Free Press by W.F. Luxton in 1872, it was purchased in 1898 by Clifford Sifton. It was located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 1931 the paper became the Winnipeg Free Press; 2 years following the death of its then sole owner, Clifford Sifton.
This database, created from microfilm copies of the newspaper, is a fully searchable text version of the newspaper for ONLY the following years: 1906-08 and 1914-23.
Your host points out that more editions (1872 - 1878) of this publication are available for free via
the University of Manitoba Digital Collections.
Also, archives from many other years are incorporated in those of its successor /purchaser, the Winnipeg Free Press (subscription required).
Powered by NewspaperARCHIVE.com., the largest historical newspaper database online.
A full archive (1874–1931) is also offered in an indexed and searchable form
on the Newspapers.com service.
Ancestry also makes available in another of its collections, the Manitoba Free Press Newspaper (1906-08 and 1914-23) (1893-1900, 1902-10, and 1914-21)
Also available on this site as a Source with links to the people and families for whom it is cited:S1531426133 AND
Something else to consider:
For most people looking into their family history, obituaries hold a special interest. In fact, the Winnipeg Free Press operates a
free public service known as "Passages" which provides indexed and searchable access to all the death and "In Memoriam" notices published since some time in about 1999 to the present day. It also offers access to materials from sister publications in the Steinbach and Brandon regions.
In addition, for people of particular interest to me, the reader will find special source links on some people's profiles that will take them DIRECTLY to the notice published on this service.
More can be learned about this publication and its place in history via online reference services.
Examples are:
- Wikipedia.
Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia.
The Canadian Encyclopedia
*** Further ***:
While the annals of this publication may be of some or limited interest to you, your host suggests that you be aware it is but one element of a considerable effort by the Ancestry service to collect and index the information available in newspapers and periodicals. That effort and the full extent of the content available is best understood by perusing the information catalogued on this "Newspapers and periodicals category" page of their service, where, on 2021/08/25, there were 1496 entries.
Another view of some of the same information is available here, in the inventory of their "Historical Newspapers" collection.
OF NOTE: Ancstry offers free public acces to the records of this lone publication, The Ottawa Journal, specifically, to the Birth, Marriage and Death Notices for the period 1885 to 1980.
To illustrate the richness of this larger resource, here are but a few chosen collections that relate to the same geography:
The record collections SPECIFICALLY related to the "Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Free Press (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)" are split across two collections and further described on this site as Sources with links to the people and families for whom they are cited:
- 1945-1946 (1,099 records) and as a SourceS1538265140 AND
- strangely also 1945-1946 (368 records)
Along with this one, the Winnipeg Free Press (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) for 1932 to 1977 (Partial... there are MANY DAYS MISSING!)and as a SourceS1525768383.
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