Donald Creighton

Historian, Author

1902 – 1979

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Who was Donald Creighton?

Donald Grant Creighton, CC was a noted Canadian historian whose major works include The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence: 1760-1850 a detailed study on the growth of the English merchant class in relation to the St-Lawrence River in Canada. His biography of John A. Macdonald, published into two parts between 1952 and 1955, was considered by many Canadian historians as re-establishing biographies as a proper form of historical research in Canada. By the 1960s Creigthon began to move towards a more general history of Canada. Creighton's later years were also preoccupied with criticizing the then ruling Liberal Party of Canada under William Lyon Mackenzie King and his successor Louis St-Laurent. Creighton held the belief that the Liberal Party had attempted to undermined Canada's link with Great Britain and move towards closer relations with the United States of America.

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Born
Jul 15, 1902
Toronto
Also known as
  • Donald Grant Creighton
Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Master of Arts, Balliol College
    ( - 1931)
  • University of Toronto
  • Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Employment
  • University of Toronto
Lived in
  • Toronto
  • Brooklin, Ontario
    ( - 1979/12/19)
Died
Dec 19, 1979
Brooklin, Ontario

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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