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Donald Creighton
Canadian historian (1902-1979) · Canada · On the map · Writers · Died at 77
Donald Grant Creighton was a 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.
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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.
