Search Help
IslandNewspapers.ca provides a number of methods to search. Using Advanced Search you can search using keywords or phrases. You can search specific fields including Full text, Date, and Newspaper Name.
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If you wanted to search for pages containing the phrase Flying Farmer, you would select the Full text field and enter the phrase "Flying Farmer" in quotes. Phrase Searching |
Combine Fields in a SearchIf you wanted to find all the pages with the phrase "Flying Farmer" and the term Clinton you would add an additional search field by selecting the + icon.
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Date-based SearchingIf you wanted to find all the pages with the phrase "Flying Farmer" that were published in the 1940s you would select the Date field and enter 194*
Date based searching requires you to follow a particular format. In the example above we searched for all papers in the 1940s using the date 194*. If you wanted to find all the papers published in 1948 you would use the date 1948*. For all the papers published in September of 1948, you would use the date 1948-09*. To search for all of the papers published on September 27, 1948, you would enter 1948-09-27*.
Text-based Date SearchingA new feature we have added is the ability to search for dates as you would for text. Unlike that the standard Date search a text based search doesn't require you to use a wildcard. Example searches include 1940, 19480927, etc.
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