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| Wilf Creighton celebrated his 100th birthday at Dalhousie. (Dalhousie Magazine) |
Wilfred Creighton (BA’26) died at the age of 104 at his home in Halifax on Sunday.
Throughout his long life, Wilfrid Creighton’s connection to Dalhousie remained strong. His father, Graham, attended Dalhousie in the late 19th century and his great uncle, the Rev. James Ross was Dalhousie’s second president. And, if that’s not enough, he grew up in a LeMarchant Street house that backed onto the university campus.
“Dalhousie was part of the fabric of our lives,” said Mr. Creighton, on his 100th birthday four years ago last May. He received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie in 2004.
The youngest of six children who all graduated from Dalhousie, Mr. Creighton made a bequest in his will to establish the Graham Creighton Scholarship in English to honour his father.
He went on to be Nova Scotia’s first provincial forester and was deputy minister of lands and forests from 1949 to 1969. His innovations included urging government to purchase and maintain Crown lands. For this and other efforts, Mr. Creighton became one of three inaugural inductees into the Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame.
Source: Dalhousie Magazine, Spring 2004
LINK: Wilf Creighton obit in The Chronicle Herald.