Speaker Series: "Forgotten Newspapers of Toronto" with Jamie Bradburn
by AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETYWednesday, 19 March 2025 from 7:00 PM (EDT) to 8:30 PM (EDT)15372 Yonge Street , Aurora, ON L4G1N8
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Overview
Toronto has long had one of the most competitive newspaper markets in Canada. While papers like the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star have endured since the 19th century, others that were once major players in the market are all but forgotten.
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This talk will focus on three publications that left their mark on the city:* The Mail and Empire - emerging out the Conservative Party's desire for a strong counterpoint to the Liberal Globe, the Mail kept the Tories satisfied from its launch in 1872 until it developed an independent streak in the 1880s, which led to the establishment of the party-owned Empire. When the two papers merged in 1895, it offered some of Toronto's first prominent newspaper columnists. * The News - a spinoff of the Mail which developed a pro-labour stance during the 1880s, endured a strike in 1892 which gave birth to a paper that survives today, and tried to appear to the intelligentsia during the early 20th century.* The World - a paper that for over 40 years was almost inseparable from the career of its owner, William Findlay Maclean. It supported public ownership of utilities and major city infrastructure projects such as the Bloor Viaduct.