Mauren chose the name "Harvey's" from the name of a car dealership he saw advertised in the Toronto Telegram in the summer of 1959.
In 1952, Bassett purchased part ownership of the Toronto Telegram.
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.
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The Star also leased the Telegrams Front Street facility, which was sold to The Globe and Mail.
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Margaret Scrivener - later a provincial cabinet minister under Bill Davis
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Following the death of Robertson's widow in 1947 (Robertson had died in 1918), the paper was bought by George McCullagh, the publisher of The Globe and Mail, for $3.6 million.
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MacDonald was part of the team that founded The Toronto Sun newspaper after the demise of the The Toronto Telegram.
Of his work with the choir, George Kidd wrote, 'The overall effect is one of good discipline, a clear understanding, and a sincerity that spreads itself over all sections' (Toronto Telegram, 15 Dec 1957).