Toronto Mail



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.

History
The Toronto Mail was founded in 1872 by John A. Macdonald, the Prime Minister of Canada and publishing rival of George Brown of The Globe. Macdonald and Brown had been political rivals in Canada West during the previous decade (although they had co-operated to achieve Canadian confederation). Macdonald had become Prime Minister of the new Dominion of Canada in 1867.

The first editor of the Mail was Charles Belford, hired in March 1872. Belford held the position until 1878.

After Macdonald's death in 1891, the Mail merged with the Toronto Empire to form The Mail and Empire in 1895. The Mail and Empire would in 1936 merge with Brown's Globe to form The Globe and Mail.