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 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 conservative paper until it declared itself independent of any political party in 1886. That prompted Prime Minister John A. Macdonald to found the Toronto Empire in 1887. The Mail eventually returned to Conservative roots when it merged with the Toronto Empire to form The Mail and Empire in 1895. Bunting and Charles Riordan remained with the new paper, but Bunting died in 1896 and Riordan selling his stake in 1927 to Izaak Walton Killam.[6]
The Mail and Empire merged in 1936 with The Globe to form The Globe and Mail.
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