Helen Creighton

Helen Creighton (1899-1989) is one of Canada’s best-known folklorists—a pioneer researcher, collector and author whose career spanned sixty years, and whose reputation in the field is international.

During the course of her career, Creighton collected over 60,000 materials, including 4,000 songs and ballads. She wrote thirteen books of traditional songs, ballads, and stories.

Her work ranged broadly and deeply across Maritime folklore and history, and included extensive work within the Gaelic, Acadian, Mi’kmaq, English, German, and African-Nova Scotian traditions.

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