Google News has several British Columbia Historical Newspapers Online and available for free BC, Canada research.

Online collections include:

Ladysmith

• Ladysmith-Chemainus Chronicle 1959-1989

New Westminster

• British Columbian 1861-1869

• Daily British Columbian 1867-1869

• Mainland Guardian 1865, 1867, 1870-1889, 1891, 1894

Port Hardy

• North Island Gazette 1961, 1963-2006

Vancouver

• Evening Sun 1924-1927

• Sun 1914-1915, 1959-1973, 1983-1986

• Sunday Sun 1921, 1928, 1930-1934, 1936-1941, 1943-1944, 1951-1952, 1953-1961, 1963-1969, 1971-1972

• Vancouver Daily Sun 1917-1918, 1920

• Vancouver Sun 1920-1924, 1927-1943, 1948-1959, 1973-1974, 1978-1983, 1986-1987

• Vancouver Sunday Sun 1923

• Weekend Express 1978-1979

• Weekend Sun 1980-1982

Victoria

• Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle 1870-1871

• Vancouver Daily Post 1865-1866

• Vancouver Times 1864-1866

• Victoria Daily Standard 1783, 1870-1873

• Daily British Colonist 1868-1871