Rockefeller Foundation[1] Canadian Museum of Civilization,[1] CBC
Known for
Collecting songs and stories in the Maritimes
Website
archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/[2]
Mary Helen Creighton, CM (September 5, 1899 – December 12, 1989) was a prominent Canadian folklorist. She collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories, and beliefs in a career that spanned several decades, and she published many books and articles on Nova Scotia folk songs and folklore. She received numerous honorary degrees for her work and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1976.[1]
^ abcMacGregor, N. & Croft. C. (2008).
^Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (2008).
Mary HelenCreighton, CM (September 5, 1899 – December 12, 1989) was a prominent Canadian folklorist. She collected over 4,000 traditional songs, stories...
Great Big Sea. Each year, the ECMA also awards one person with the Dr. HelenCreighton Lifetime Achievement Award to recognize an artist or band that has...
1874 edition of The Poems and Songs of Robert Tannahill. Folklorist HelenCreighton first collected the song in 1933 from Annie (Bayers) Greenough in West...
series of Nova Scotia ghost stories collected by Canadian folklorist HelenCreighton over a period of 28 years, first published in 1957. On a song-collecting...
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awarded the Order of Nova Scotia in 2005. She was also awarded the Dr. HelenCreighton Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 East Coast Music Awards. Flying...
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Memorial Library. Helen Hartness Fladers recorded several versions sung by former sailors in the 1940s in New England, whilst HelenCreighton recorded several...
Fowke, Laura Boulton and HelenCreighton recorded versions from traditional singers in Canada, particularly in Nova Scotia. Helen Hartness Flanders recorded...
Scotians began to adapt the song is unknown. In the 1930s, folklorist HelenCreighton collected versions of the folk song from different communities along...
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, July 1957 Creighton & Senior, Traditional Songs of Nova Scotia pp.193-195 HelenCreighton's Maritime Folk Songs, pp.74-75, "As...
are drilling in shaft 2. Rick, Doug, Alex and Billy travel to the HelenCreighton Heritage Museum in Dartmouth to follow up on a lead about the 90-foot...
There was once a significant Canadian Gaelic speaking population. HelenCreighton recorded Celtic traditions of rural Nova Scotia in the mid-1900s. There...
East Coast Music Awards, White was posthumously honoured with a Dr. HelenCreighton Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the namesake of Portia White Court...
Sailor's Snug Harbor retirement home in Staten Island, New York in 1939. HelenCreighton recorded two versions in Nova Scotia, Canada in the 1940s. The song...
Museum she also helped foster the scholarship of collectors such as HelenCreighton and Edith Fowke. Roy grew up in Cap-Chat on the Gaspé Peninsula, where...
shanty-related traditions. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Canadian folklorist HelenCreighton collected shanties from Nova Scotia seamen, such as 'Blow the Man Down'...
versions have also been found in Canada, including several recorded by HelenCreighton in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario. In her highly influential...
were recorded in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the 1950s and 60s by HelenCreighton, Herbert Halpert and Kenneth Peacock. Joan Baez recorded the song in...
Collection. Canadian folklorists Edith Fowke, Kenneth Peacock and HelenCreighton each recorded a different "House Carpenter" variant in Canada in the...
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