Table of Contents

Introduction


I: Spring
1. Family Tree
2. Childhood and Adolescence
3. Vic
4. Oxford and Paris


II: Summer
5. Historian
6. Professor
7. Mid-Career
8. Macdonald


III: Fall
9. Chairman
10. Decolonization
11. Confederation


IV: Winter
12. Despair
13. Endings


Appendix 1: Donald Creighton: Selected Bibliography
Appendix 2: Donald Creighton’s Doctoral Students
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

About the Author

The late Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was the outstanding narrative historian of Canada in his era. A long-time professor of history at the University of Toronto, his other books include The Empire of the St. Lawrence, The Road to Confederation, and Canada's First Century.

Donald Wright is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. Peter Waite is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Dalhousie University.