Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Canadian County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Calumet Weekly Citizen (Calumet, Okla.)1946-195?
- Calumet Weekly Criterion (Calumet, Canadian County, Okla.)1908-191?
- Canadian County Courier (El Reno, Okla.)1889-1893
- Canadian County Courier and Courier-Tribune (El Reno, Okla.)1893-1893
- Canadian County Republican (El Reno, Okla.)1893-189?
- Cheyenne Transporter (Darlington, Indian Terr.)1879-1886
- Der Courier (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1893-1894
- Der Oklahoma Courier (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1894-1894
- El Reno American=news (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1901-190?
- El Reno Daily Democrat (El Reno, Okla.)1901-1929
- El Reno Daily Eagle (El Reno, Okla.)1893-189?
- El Reno Daily Globe (El Reno, Okla.)1894-190?
- El Reno Daily Globe (El Reno, Okla.)1904-1905
- El Reno Daily Globe and El Reno Evening Bell (El Reno, Okla.)1903-1904
- El Reno Daily Herald (El Reno, Okla.)1892-189?
- El Reno Daily Republican (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1896-189?
- El Reno Eagle (El Reno, Canadian County, Okla.)1889-189?
- El Reno Evening Bell (El Reno, Okla.)1902-190?
- El Reno Evening Star (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1896-189?
- El Reno Weekly Globe (El Reno, Canadian County, Okla.)1894-1905
- Minco Minstrel (Minco, Chickasaw Nation, I.T. [Okla.])1890-1897
- Oklahoma Democrat (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1891-1893
- Piedmont News (Piedmont, Okla.)1909-1909
- Populist Platform (El Reno, Canadian Co., O.T. [Okla.])1894-1895
- Semi-Weekly Industrial Headlight (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1895-1895
- The Courier-Tribune (El Reno, Okla.)1893-1893
- The Daily Democrat (El Reno, Okla.)1889-190?
- The El Reno American (El Reno, Okla.)1905-1988
- The El Reno Daily American (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1901-1910
- The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.)1929-1993
- The El Reno Democrat (El Reno, Okla.)1894-190?
- The El Reno Democrat (El Reno, Oklahoma Teritory [Okla.])1893-1893
- The El Reno Democrat (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1906-191?
- The El Reno Democrat and Courier-Tribune (El Reno, Okla. Terr. [Okla.])1893-1894
- The El Reno Democrat and Globe (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1905-1905
- The El Reno Herald (El Reno, Oklahoma Ty. [Okla.])1894-189?
- The El Reno News (El Reno, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1896-1901
- The Frisco Herald (Frisco, Okla., I.T.)1889-1891
- The Industrial Headlight (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1895-1895
- The Kiowa Chief (Perry, Okla.)1899-190?
- The Mustang Enterprise (Mustang, Okla.)1905-1914
- The Mustang Mail (Mustang, Canadian County, Okla.)1902-1905
- The Okarche Chieftain (Okarche, Okla.)1943-2017
- The Okarche Times (Okarche, Okla. Territory)1892-1942
- The Oklahoma Herald (El Reno, Oklahoma Ty. [Okla.])1892-1894
- The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.)1911-1929
- The Piedmont Post (Piedmont, Canadian County, Okla.)1905-190?
- The Piedmont Press (Piedmont, Canadian County, Okla.)1903-1905
- The Reno Herald (Reno, I.T. [Okla.])1889-18??
- The State Tribune (El Reno, Okla.)1907-190?
- The Yukon Oklahoma Sun (Yukon, Canadian County, Okla.)1923-1966
- The Yukon Sun (Yukon, Canadian County, O.T. [Okla.])1905-1923
- The Yukon Sun and the Yukon Weekly (Yukon, Canadian County, O.T. [Okla.])1901-1905
- The Yukon Weekly (Yukon, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1894-190?
- Union City Advocate (Union City, Okla.)1901-1902
- Union City Alert (Union City, Okla.)1908-1914
- Union City Clipper (Union City, Ind. Ter. [Okla.])1890-189?
- Union City Leader (Union City, Oklahoma Territory [Okla.])1894-189?
- Union City Progress (Union City, Okla.)1910-1910
- Weekly Industrial Headlight (El Reno, O.T. [Okla.])1895-189?
- Yukon Register (Yukon, Canadian Co., Oklahoma Ty. [Okla.])1892-189?
- Yukon Weekly Courier (Yukon, Okla. Terr.)1891-1892
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Canadian County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the county clerk, the court clerk and the Oklahoma Historical Society, and any online record search the county offers.
- The county clerk
Deeds and other land records.
- The court clerk
Marriage licenses, probate (wills and estates), divorces and court cases.
- The Oklahoma Historical Society
In Oklahoma City: Native American records, including Dawes Commission records, and county records and newspapers.
- Oklahoma Historical Society Research Centerfree
The state historical society's research center in Oklahoma City: Native American records, county records and newspapers.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Oklahoma, Canadian" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Land not yet in any county
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1890, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Before statehood in 1907, Oklahoma was two territories: Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. For Native American ancestors, the Dawes rolls and enrollment cards at the National Archives and the Oklahoma Historical Society are key.