Donald Grant Creighton, CC was a noted Canadian historian. Born in Toronto, the son of Methodist minister, Creighton attended Victoria College, in the University of Toronto, where he received his BA in 1925. He then attended Balliol College at Oxford University, where he received his MA before returning to Canada to teach history, at the University of Toronto, where he remained for his career. Creighton belonged to a generation of English Canadians who were proud of the British Empire, and his anglophilia was often expressed in his books. In 1926, Creighton married Luella Bruce. He was the... father of the fiction writer Cynthia Flood. Creighton died in his sleep on December 18, 1979, from cancer, in Brooklin, Ontario. He was 77. In 1967, Creighton was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. University of New Brunswick political science professor Donald A. Wright is writing a biography about Creighton. Creighton was heavily influenced by Harold Innis and took an economic approach to Canadian history.
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