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245:, as it was popularly known was one of the first Canadian newspapers to introduce Saturday (and in 1957 Sunday) colour comics section (which by its later years spanned two sections), and a radio (and after 1952 television) magazine with listings for the entire week. Following the death of Robertson's widow in 1947, the paper was bought by 38: 228:
Toronto. In 1881, Robertson erected a building for the paper at the southeast corner of King and Bay Streets, on Melinda Street. John R. (Black Jack) Robinson succeeded Pirie as editor-in-chief in 1888 and held that position until he died in 1928.
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in 1969 and $ 921,000 in 1970 and was on pace to lose another $ 900,000 in 1971 when it was shut down that year by Bassett on October 30, just as a strike was looming. Many employees moved to the
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Gary Ralph - covered many front-page stories including The October Crisis and Woodstock in the five years leading to the Tely's last edition. Award winner for his police reporting.
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Toronto: Past and Present / A Handbook of the city. C. Pelham Mulvany (Toronto: W. E. Caiger Publisher, 1884). Toronto Evening Telegram history: pp. 193–194.
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Archival and photograph collection of J. Douglas MacFarlane's newspaper career in Toronto.
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Canada's Newspaper Legend: The Story of J. Douglas MacFarlane by Richard MacFarlane (Toronto: ECW Press Ltd., 2000) Newspaper History in Canada, Biography, 300 pp.
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to a new building at that location from the site at Bay and Melinda Street where the paper had been produced since 1899. At the same time,
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described the decline of the paper and provided many anecdotes about the Canadian newspaper business from the 1950s to 1970.
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family. In March 1957, the paper introduced a Sunday edition, the first Toronto paper to do so, and was threatened by the
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focused on local issues and became the largest circulation daily in Toronto, but it lost that position in 1932 to the
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York University's library holds about 500,000 prints and 830,000 negatives of pictures taken by the
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List, Wilfred (September 17, 1971). "Negotiators given mandate for strike in Telegram dispute".
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at the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed with an afternoon paper,
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award-winning labour reporter, later a provincial cabinet minister under Bill Davis
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The newspaper became the voice of working-class, conservative Protestant
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In December 1959, Bassett bought a 3.6-acre (15,000 m) property on
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Well-known reporters, editors, columnists and cartoonists included:
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The death of the Toronto Telegram & other newspaper stories
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The paper tyrant: John Ross Robertson of the Toronto Telegram
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McCullagh died in 1952, and the paper was then purchased by
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from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the
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and never regained it. During the early 20th century,
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The Toronto Telegram

Newspaper
Broadsheet
John Ross Robertson
John W. H. Bassett
Populism
Conservative
Commerce Court
Toronto
Ontario
conservative
broadsheet
newspaper
Toronto
Conservative Party
The Toronto Daily Star
Liberals
United Kingdom
British Empire
John Ross Robertson
CA$
Alexander Fraser Pirie
Guelph
Orange
Toronto Daily Star
George McCullagh
The Globe and Mail
John W. H. Bassett
Eaton

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