Prime Minister Robert Borden’s New Year message. Source: Canadiana.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network yesterday shared on social media that they ended the year of Canadiana features with the most viewed item in their collection being The Toronto World newspaper.
Founded in 1880, The Toronto World was a daily morning newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario that was published until 1921, with a Sunday edition that operated from 1891 to 1924. It covered local and international news, along with sports.
According to an entry in Wikipedia, The Toronto World “was popular among Toronto’s working class. It was said to be the ‘editorially boldest’ of the Toronto press, and was notable for its irreverence, noisy exposés of civic corruption, skillful skirting of the libel laws, and opposition to the religious establishment.”
The newspaper ceased publication in 1921 and all assets were sold to The Mail and Empire newspaper.
Search or browse
The 12,317 digisited issues of The Toronto World, from 1881 to 1921, can be searched or browsed on Canadiana.
You can search for a keyword within the entire series or within an individual issue. The results will indicate which issue or page, but the keyword is not highlighted on the page. You need to read the page to find it.
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network and Canadiana merged in 2018.
