Most early issues of the newspaper were lost or were sporadically preserved in BC Archives (November 2, 1912 and Sept. 5, 1957 to June 23, 1984), Nanjing Library in China (the holding is: November 24, 1947 to October 31, 1948), and other possible institutes.Twenty-five articles on display here are from the New Republic newspaper between 1917-1918 which are preserved at the Library & Archives of Canada.