1949 Fredericton Encaenia
Creighton, Donald Grant
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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ENCAENIA, MAY, 1949
DONALD GRANT CREIGHTON
to be Doctor of Laws
Donald Grant Creighton, Professor of History at the University of Toronto, may be less familiar to some in this hall
than the three Alumni and the one Alumna whom, with him, you are today honouring. Many, however, will
remember Professor Creighton as delivering the Founders' Day address in 1945.
But in terms of Canadian scholarship Donald Creighton is a match for any. Educated at Toronto University and at
Balliol College, Oxford, he is the author of two authoritative works, of which one, Dominion of the North, is
regarded by many as the best one-volume history of Canada yet published.
A contributor to the famous Rowell-Sirois Report, editor of the Canadian Historical Review, Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, and, above all, a friend of the Maritimes, he would seem uniquely worthy of the degree you are
now to confer upon him.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
DONALD GRANT CREIGHTON
to be Doctor of Laws
Donald Grant Creighton, Professor of History at the University of Toronto, may be less familiar to some in this hall
than the three Alumni and the one Alumna whom, with him, you are today honouring. Many, however, will
remember Professor Creighton as delivering the Founders' Day address in 1945.
But in terms of Canadian scholarship Donald Creighton is a match for any. Educated at Toronto University and at
Balliol College, Oxford, he is the author of two authoritative works, of which one, Dominion of the North, is
regarded by many as the best one-volume history of Canada yet published.
A contributor to the famous Rowell-Sirois Report, editor of the Canadian Historical Review, Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, and, above all, a friend of the Maritimes, he would seem uniquely worthy of the degree you are
now to confer upon him.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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