Donald Creighton : a life in history
A member of the same intellectual generation as Harold Innis, Northrop Frye, and George Grant, Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada’s first great historian. The author of eleven books, including The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence and a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, Creighton wrote history as if it ?had happened,? he said, ?the day before yesterday.? And as a public intellectual, he advised the prime minister of Cana...
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