Donald Creighton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian historian
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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Donald Creighton
- Donald Grant Creighton (1902–1979) was a Canadian historian whose major works include The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850 (first published in 1937), 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 Creighton began to move towards a more general history of Canada. Creighton's later years were preoccupied with criticizing the then ruling Liberal Party of Canada under William Lyon Mackenzie King and his successor Louis St.
- Laurent.
- Creighton denounced the Liberal Party for undermining Canada's link with Great Britain and moving towards closer relations with the United States, a policy which he strongly disliked.
- His peers remember a brilliant writer who was a very difficult colleague.
- One of his biographers says, "By the 1960s, English Canada's most accomplished historian had become a caricature: one-dimensional, uncomplicated and unlikeable; temperamental, francophobic and intolerant.
- ...
- he had become a pariah."
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