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Donald Creighton

A Life in History

By: Donald A. Wright

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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 Canada, the premier of Ontario, and – at least on one occasion – the British government. Yet he was, as Donald Wright shows, also profoundly out of step with his times. As the nation was re-imagined along bilingual and later multicultural lines in the 1960s and 1970s, Creighton defended a British definition of Canada at the same time as he began to fear that he would be remembered only “as a pessimist, a bigot, and a violent Tory partisan.” Through his virtuoso research into Creighton’s own voluminous papers, Wright paints a sensitive portrait of a brilliant but difficult man. Ultimately, Donald Creighton captures the twentieth-century transformation of English Canada through the life and times of one of its leading intellectuals.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442620307

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9781442620308

The Empire of the St. Lawrence

A Study in Commerce and Politics

By: Donald Grant Creighton,Donald Creighton

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The Empire of the St. Lawrence

A Study in Commerce and Politics

By: Donald Grant Creighton,Donald Creighton

Creighton examines the trading system that developed along the St. Lawrence River and argues that the exploitation of key staple products by colonial merchants along the St. Lawrence River system was key to Canada's economic and national development.

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466

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084184

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9780802084187

John A. MacDonald

The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain

By: Donald Creighton

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John A. MacDonald

The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain

By: Donald Creighton

First published in 1952 and 1955, John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain remains a classic in Canadian arts and letters. Described as the greatest biography ever written in Canada, it earned Donald Creighton two Governor General's Awards. In 2013, the Toronto Review of Books recommended it to anyone who wished to become a better Canadian. In this book, Creighton examines the public and private lives of Canada’s first prime minister, his victories and defeats as well as his joys and pains. A gifted writer, Creighton takes the reader back in time, to the nineteenth century, the road to Confederation, and the building of the railway. Along the way, he visits Kingston, Quebec, Charlottetown, Ottawa, and London, following his hero from a few rooms above his father’s shop in Kingston to the corridors of power in England, including the magnificent Highclere Castle where much of the British North America Act was written. This edition includes a new introduction by Creighton's biographer, Donald Wright, and by Peter Waite, Creighton's very first doctoral student.

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1000

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University of Toronto Press

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1487518773

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9781487518776

China Mishkid

My Life as a Missionary Kid in China (1938–1955)

By: A. Donald MacLeod

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China Mishkid

My Life as a Missionary Kid in China (1938–1955)

By: A. Donald MacLeod

This true story of growing up under the turmoil of war in the Far East raises important questions. How far is it justified to risk the life and wellbeing of a child so that parents can fulfil their calling? How helpful is it to be called a “third culture kid”? Can such children be prepared for re-entry into their passport country? What if parents themselves struggle with questions of national identity and personal fulfilment ? This easy-read is an honest yet hopeful account of one boy’s experiences.

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291

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FriesenPress

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1525532162

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9781525532160

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The native people in Quebec historical writing on the Heroic Period (1534-1663) of New France

By: Donald B. Smith

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The native people in Quebec historical writing on the Heroic Period (1534-1663) of New France

By: Donald B. Smith

The treatment of Native peoples in Canadian history texts is currently the subject of some debate. This paper analyses the treatment of authors who have written on the period prior to 1665 – a period of tremendous importance as this period of first contact was when many of the stereotypes regarding Native peoples were developed.

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University of Ottawa Press

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177282383X

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9781772823837

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