The Toronto Mail (original) (raw)

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 (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 (major creditor of the debts owed by The Mail) and Christopher William Bunting with the former assuming ownership.