The Toronto Daily Telegraph

The Toronto Daily Telegraph was a conservative newspaper founded by John Ross Robertson in 1866 after he left the The Globe, a Liberal-leaning paper, to establish a Conservative-leaning paper.[1]

Launched on May 21, 1866, it initially ran a daily and evening version and was a pro-British voice against increasing American influence a year before Confederation.[2]

The paper was never profitable and debt led to the folding of the morning edition in May 1872.[3] The paper's debt woes continued; unable to obtain financial support from the Conservative elite in Toronto, the broadsheet folded in June 1872.[4][5]

Robertson returned to The Globe and later established the successor to the Telegraph, Toronto Telegram, in 1876.

See also

Other conservative papers before and after the Telegraph:

References

  1. ↑ http://torontoist.com/2016/08/historicist-the-telegraph-and-the-early-career-of-john-ross-robertson/
  2. ↑ http://torontoist.com/2016/08/historicist-the-telegraph-and-the-early-career-of-john-ross-robertson/
  3. ↑ http://torontoist.com/2016/08/historicist-the-telegraph-and-the-early-career-of-john-ross-robertson/
  4. ↑ http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/12/toronto_newspapers_of_the_past_and_present/
  5. ↑ http://torontoist.com/2016/08/historicist-the-telegraph-and-the-early-career-of-john-ross-robertson/
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