Formation The newspaper was founded as the
Toronto Star Weekly by
Joseph E. Atkinson as a Canadian equivalent of British
Sunday editions. it began as a 16-page publication. According to one retrospective, "Its weekly menu included feature articles about important issues of the day; offbeat, funny stories; sports features with big, bold photos that made the heroes of hockey, baseball and boxing jump right off the page and, each week, a condensed novel published in serial form, often by one of the most popular authors of the day." Jointly, they produced
The Canadian/Star Weekly as a newsstand edition for communities that did not receive a newspaper with
The Canadian as a supplement while the
Star Weekly served as a supplement in the Saturday edition of the
Toronto Star. In 1968, the
Star Weekly was purchased outright by
Southam and merged with its weekend supplement,
The Canadian Magazine and continued to be published as
The Canadian/Star Weekly, which was provided for free as a weekend supplement in the
Saturday Star and also sold as a standalone on newspaper stands across the country for 20 cents. On December 26, 1973 the
Star Weekly ceased publication entirely and
The Canadian became the
Toronto Star's weekend supplement. ==Staff and contributors==