The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper. It is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays."Circulation Report: Daily Newspapers 2015" . Newspapers Canada, June 2016. It is a "newspaper of record".

History
The Globe was founded in 1844 by Scottish immigrant George Brown. He was a Father of Confederation.

By the 1850s, The Globe had become a well-known daily newspaper. 

The Globe and Mail formed when The Globe merged with another newspaper called The Mail and Empire in 1936. 

Since the 1980s, the newspaper has been printed in six Canadian cities: Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver.

At the end of 2010, the Thomson family, bought The Globe and Mail with an 85-percent stake.globeandmail.com: "BCE-CTV deal remakes media landscape" , 10 Sep 2010globeandmail.com: "Bell ushers in new era with CTV deal", 11 Sep 2010 

In October 2012, The Globe and Mail launched online."Globe Unlimited press release ". The Globe and Mail. October 22, 2012

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Category:Newspapers published in Canada
Category:1844 establishments in North America