Tinder's New, But the Freakout Isn't: Looking for Love in an 1880s Matrimonial Journal
In December 1886, the city of Toronto saw the launch of a new publication exclusively aimed at helping people get hitched—The Anglo-American Matrimonial Journal. In their first dispatch, the editors were confident there were “many people of both sexes desirous of making suitable matrimonial alliances” in the freezing city: farmers, aristocrats, and other men on the prowl, all waiting to be separated by the paper into Upper, Middle, and Lower class.