''The Toronto Mail'' was a newspaper in

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which through corporate mergers became first ''

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'', and then ''

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''. The ''Mail'' was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in

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- died 1907 in Toronto). Patterson had been Postmaster of Toronto and was asked by the federal Conservative Party to become publisher of the newspaper. Patterson remained proprietor and editor until it changed hands with John Riordan (major creditor of the debts owed by The Mail) and

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with the former assuming ownership. Riordan died in 1884, but control of the paper when to his brother Charles Alfred Riordan in 1882 with Bunting remaining as director of the Mail. It was the city's conservative paper until it declared itself independent of any

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in 1886. That prompted Prime Minister

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to found the ''

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'' in 1887. The ''Mail'' eventually returned to Conservative roots when it merged with the ''

'' to form ''

'' in 1895. Bunting and Charles Riordan remained with the new paper, but Bunting died in 1896 and Riordan selling his stake in 1927 to

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. ''The Mail and Empire'' merged in 1936 with '' The Globe'' to form ''The Globe and Mail''.

Staff

* Kathleen Watkins Blake - journalist joined the paper in 1889 * Philip Dansken Ross - columnist * Edmund Ernest Sheppard - columnist left in 1883 for ''Toronto Evening News'' * Martin Joseph Griffin, editor 1881-1885 * Edward Farrer - writer 1872–1873, 1875-1881 and later editor 1884-1892 George R. Gregg, assistant editor https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/2610511.pdf pg. 86.

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