''The Toronto Mail'' was a newspaper in

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which through corporate mergers became first '' The Mail and Empire'', and then ''

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''. The ''Mail'' was founded in 1872 by Thomas Charles Patterson (b. 1836 in Patney, Wiltshire, England - 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 Christopher William Bunting 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 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 sold his stake in 1927 to Izaak Walton Killam. ''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 * 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 editorhttps://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/2610511.pdf pg. 86.

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