Toronto Standard

{{Short description|19th-century Canadian conservative newspaper}}

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name = The Toronto Standard |

type = weekly |

format = broadsheet |

| foundation = 1848

| ceased publication = 1849

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The Toronto Standard newspaper was published in Toronto before confederation. It is listed among Toronto's early newspapers{{cite web | url=http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/oldnewspap/pap2.html#Advertiser | title=Early Toronto Newspapers 1793-1867 | accessdate=2012-01-09 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320041112/http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/oldnewspap/pap2.html#Advertiser | archive-date=2011-03-20 | url-status=dead }} as the Toronto Standard and General Advertiser.{{cite web | url=http://www.mastheadonline.com/news/2011/20110401906.shtml | title=Toronto Standard magazine readies for launch | author=Tom Czerniawski | work=Masthead | accessdate=2012-01-08}} It was a weekly conservative newspaper, published by James Northey, that advocated for Protestant Ascendancy. Founded in 1848, it closed in 1849.{{cite news |last1=Bradburn |first1=Jamie |title=The Toronto Standard, “A Sound Conservative Protestant Journal” |url=https://torontoist.com/2011/04/a_print_standard/ |accessdate=September 22, 2020 |work=Torontoist |date=April 21, 2011}}