The Globe

The Globe, a predecessor of the Globe and Mail, was a newspaper that first appeared on 5 March 1844 in York (Toronto), Upper Canada, as the party paper of the dominion’s Liberals. As the Globe’s external influence expanded, it naturally grew internally as well. It had begun with a staff composed of George and Peter Brown, a printer, and a boy apprentice or two. In the 1850s the paper acquired a full staff of printers, pressroom and engine hands, reporters, and parliamentary correspondents. Within a few years of establishing his newspaper, George Brown had moved it from the day of personal journalism to the era of big newspaper business in Canada. He made himself a leading Toronto businessman in the process and also shaped a formidable political power.