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The Mail and Empire
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The Mail and Empire, Christmas 1897
Owner(s) Charles Aldred Riordan (1895–1927); Christopher William Bunting (general manager 1895–1896); Izaak Walton Killam (1927–1935)
EditorJohn Webb[ citation needed ]
FoundedFebruary 7, 1895
Ceased publicationNovember 21, 1936
Circulation 118,000[ citation needed ]

The Mail and Empire was a Canadian newspaper formed from the 1895 merger of The Toronto Mail (owned by Charles Alfred Riordan and managed by Christopher William Bunting) and Toronto Empire , [1] both conservative newspapers based in Toronto. It acquired the assets of The Toronto World in 1921 and merged with The Globe in 1936 to form The Globe and Mail . [2]

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References

  1. Freeman, Barbara M. "Kit Coleman". Dictionary of Canadian Biography . When the Mail merged with the Empire in 1895
  2. Richard J. Doyle revised by Sasha Yusufali. "Globe and Mail". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on August 21, 2007. The Globe and Mail, Toronto, was founded in 1936 when George McCullagh united two influential and historically important dailies, The Globe and The Mail and Empire