Donald Creighton
Historian, Author
1902 – 1979
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
- Master of Arts, Balliol College
- 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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