Toronto Telegram
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The Toronto Telegram (previously the Toronto Evening Telegram) was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon daily newspaper published in Toronto. It was founded in 1876 by John Ross Robertson. The newspaper became the voice of working-class, conservative Orange (Protestant) Toronto.
It was purchased in 1952 by John Bassett. The newspaper had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. In the 1960s, the paper had increasing difficulty competing with the liberal Toronto Star and suffered a series of strikes by its printing union. Bassett finally shut down the money-losing paper in 1971.
A number of the Telegram's key writers and staff started a new conservative tabloid, The Toronto Sun the Monday following the Telegram's last issue.
In the book The Death Of The Toronto Telegram (1971), former Telegram writer Jock Carroll describes the decline of the paper, and provides many anecdotes about the Canadian newspaper business from the 1950s until 1970.