The Toronto Mail was a newspaper in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, which through corporate mergers became first The Mail and Empire

The Mail and Empire

The Mail and Empire was formed from the 1895 merger of The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire newspapers, both conservative newspapers in Toronto, Canada. The paper merged with The Globe to form the The Globe and Mail in 1936....

, and then The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

.

The Mail was founded in 1872 by John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald

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,
the Prime Minister of Canada

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 and publishing rival of George Brown

George Brown (Canadian politician)

George Brown was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation...

 of The Globe

The Globe (Toronto newspaper)

The Globe was a newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1844 by George Brown as a Reform voice. It merged with The Mail and Empire in 1936 to form The Globe and Mail.-History:...

. Macdonald and Brown had been political rivals in Canada West during the previous decade (although they had co-operated to achieve Canadian confederation

Canadian Confederation

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). Macdonald had become Prime Minister

Prime minister

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 of the new Dominion of Canada

Canada

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 in 1867.

After Macdonald's death in 1891, the Mail merged with the Toronto Empire

Toronto Empire

Toronto Empire was a newspaper established in Toronto, Canada, in 1887 and the voice of the conservatives in the city. It merged with another paper, The Toronto Mail, in 1895 to form The Mail and Empire, which is a predecessor of today's Globe and Mail newspaper....

to form The Mail and Empire

The Mail and Empire

The Mail and Empire was formed from the 1895 merger of The Toronto Mail and Toronto Empire newspapers, both conservative newspapers in Toronto, Canada. The paper merged with The Globe to form the The Globe and Mail in 1936....

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