Creighton, Helen National Historic Person
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Dr. Helen Creighton
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Address :
26 Newcastle Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
2017-08-18
Life Date:
1899 to 1989
Other Name(s):
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Creighton, Helen (1899-1989)
(Designation Name)
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Creighton, Helen
(Historic Name)
Research Report Number:
2016-06
Importance:
Pioneering folklorist Helen Creighton amassed one of Canada's largest collections of songs, tales, customs, and material culture between 1928 and 1975.
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: 26 Newcastle Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Pioneering folklorist Helen Creighton amassed one of Canada’s largest collections of songs, tales, customs, and material culture between 1928 and 1975. Her field research, which began near Halifax and extended throughout the Maritime provinces, resulted in more than 4,000 recordings from the British, Acadian, Gaelic, German, African-Nova Scotian, and Mi’kmaw communities. She helped popularize the cultural traditions of the Maritimes through lectures, radio broadcasts, television shows, publications, films about her work, and songs such as “Farewell to Nova Scotia.” Creighton lived most of her life here at Evergreen House.