Donald Creighton

“The nation is a community of people who feel that they belong together in the double sense that they share deeply significant elements of a common heritage and that they have a common destiny for the future.”

“The work of the historian is not the work of the statesman.”

“History is the remembered past.”

“The river, not the provincial capitals, was to be the real centre of the new British America.”

“A country, like an individual, has a character of its own; and it is this character, not the needs of the moment or the whims of the present, which must be our guide.”

“Canada is a supreme act of faith.”