The Mail and Empire

{{Short description|Former Canadian newspaper}}

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| name = The Mail and Empire

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| caption = The Mail and Empire, Christmas 1897

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| owners = Charles Aldred Riordan (1895–1927); Christopher William Bunting (general manager 1895–1896); Izaak Walton Killam (1927–1935)

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| foundation = February 7, 1895

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| language = English

| ceased publication = November 21, 1936

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| circulation = 118,000{{cite web|title=Toronto Newspaper Histories: Of Mail and Empire |url=https://jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/toronto-newspaper-histories-of-mail-and-empire/ |website=jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com |date=July 15, 2023 |access-date=June 25, 2024}}

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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,{{cite web|title=Kit Coleman|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7365|first=Barbara M.|last=Freeman|work=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|quote=When the Mail merged with the Empire in 1895}} 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.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/globe-and-mail |title=Globe and Mail |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |author=Richard J. Doyle revised by Sasha Yusufali |quote=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 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821173521/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003284 |archive-date=August 21, 2007 }}