''The Toronto Empire'' was a newspaper established in

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, in 1887. Founded by

John A. Macdonald Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that sp ...

, the

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and publishing rival of George Brown of '' The Globe'', it was the voice of the

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in the city. Macdonald and Brown had been political rivals in

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(although they had co-operated to achieve

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). The ''Empire'' was founded when the previous conservative paper in Toronto, ''

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

'', declared independence of any political party in 1886. After Macdonald's death in 1891, the ''Empire'' merged with ''The Toronto Mail'' to form ''

The Mail and Empire ''The Mail and Empire'' was formed from the 1895 merger of '' The Toronto Mail'' (owned by Charles Alfred Riordan and managed by Christopher W. Bunting) and '' Toronto Empire'' newspapers, both conservative newspapers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

'' in 1895. ''The Mail and Empire'' merged with Brown's ''Globe'' to form ''The Globe and Mail'' in 1936.

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