David Creighton (April 1, 1843 – November 7, 1917) was an

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businessman and political figure. He represented

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in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1890 as a

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member. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1843; his parents were of

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descent. Creighton came to

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with his family in 1855. He became editor and publisher of the ''Owen Sound Times'' in 1864, retiring in 1896. In 1873, he married Jane Elizabeth Kramer. He was first elected to the assembly in an 1875 by-election held after the election of Thomas Scott was declared invalid. He helped establish the newspaper '' The Empire'' at

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, which operated from 1887 to 1895. In 1895, Creighton was appointed assistant Receiver-General at Toronto. The community of

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, now a ghost town in Greater Sudbury, was named after him. He died in 1917.

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''The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1879''
CH Mackintosh *
''The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography'', HJ Morgan (1898)
1843 births 1917 deaths Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs British emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MPP-stub