Donald Grant Creighton

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Donald Grant Creighton


Born
in Toronto, Canada
July 15, 1902

Died
December 19, 1979

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Donald Grant Creighton studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1927 he was hired as a lecturer in U of T's Department of History, becoming professor in 1945, chairman 1954-59 and professor emeritus in 1971. The first of his many books, THE COMMERCIAL EMPIRE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE (1937), established him as the foremost English Canadian historian of his generation.

Under the influence of Harold INNIS, Creighton adopted as a first principle the idea of the St Lawrence as the basis of a transcontinental economic and political system: the LAURENTIAN THESIS. He was also committed to history as a literary art, and his 2-volume biography of John A. MACDONALD won the Governor General's Award (1952, 1955). As a
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Average rating: 3.93 · 118 ratings · 22 reviews · 26 distinct works
Canada's First Century

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The Road to Confederation: ...

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The Empire of the St. Lawre...

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John A. Macdonald: The Old ...

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Dominion of the North: A Hi...

3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1944
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The Forked Road: Canada 193...

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The Story Of Canada

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1967 — 18 editions
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Towards the discovery of Ca...

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Harold Adams Innis: Portrai...

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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Takeover

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“History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.”
Donald Creighton