The Toronto Mail
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The Mail Building , the paper's headquarters at Bay and King | |
Founder(s) | Thomas Charles Patteson |
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Founded | March 30, 1872 |
Political alignment | Conservative 1872-1886, then independent (1886-1895) |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | February 6, 1895 |
Headquarters | The Mail Building - King Street West and Bay Street |
The Toronto Mail was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario which through corporate mergers became first The Mail and Empire, and then The Globe and Mail.
The Mail was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in Patney, Wiltshire, England - died 1907 in Toronto).[1] Patterson had been Postmaster of Toronto and was asked by the federal Conservative Party to become publisher of the newspaper.[2] Patterson remained proprietor and editor until it changed hands with John Riordan (major creditor of the debts owed by The Mail) and Christopher William Bunting with the former assuming ownership.[3]
Riordan died in 1884, but control of the paper when to his brother Charles Alfred Riordan in 1882[4] with Bunting remaining as director of the Mail.[5]
It was the city's
The Mail and Empire merged in 1936 with The Globe to form The Globe and Mail.
Staff
- Kathleen Blake "Kit" Coleman - journalist, joined the paper in 1889[7]
- Philip Dansken Ross - columnist
- Edmund Ernest Sheppard - columnist, left in 1883 for Toronto Evening News[8]
- Martin Joseph Griffin, editor 1881-1885
- Edward Farrer - writer 1872–1873, 1875-1881 and later editor 1884-1892[9]
- George R. Gregg, assistant editor[10]
See also
References
- ISBN 0665080484.
- ^ "Biography of Thomas C. Patteson | Access Genealogy". 5 August 2012.
- ISBN 9780665080487.
- ^ "Biography – RIORDON, CHARLES ALFRED (Riordan) – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – BUNTING, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – RIORDON, CHARLES ALFRED (Riordan) – Volume XVI (1931-1940) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – FERGUSON, CATHERINE, Kit Coleman – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – SHEPPARD, EDMUND ERNEST – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – FARRER, EDWARD – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/2610511.pdf pg. 86.
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