Formed from the 1936 merger of a Father of Confederation's newspaper
The Globe and Mail
George Brown's Globe, founded in 1844, merged with the Mail and Empire in 1936 to create the paper widely treated as Canada's national newspaper of record.
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The Globe and Mail traces its roots to The Globe, founded in Toronto in 1844 by George Brown, a Scottish-born newspaperman and politician who went on to become one of the Fathers of Confederation. Brown used the paper as a political platform as much as a news outlet, championing the Reform movement and, later, Confederation itself, building The Globe into the most influential newspaper in what was then Canada West.
A 1936 merger
The modern Globe and Mail was formed in 1936, when The Globe merged with the Mail and Empire, itself the product of an earlier merger of two rival Toronto papers. The combined paper positioned itself as a national publication rather than a purely local one, and it is now widely treated as Canada's newspaper of record, covering politics, business and culture with a national rather than strictly Toronto-focused readership, distinct from the more locally-oriented Toronto Star.
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