Career
She is best known to contemporary audiences for her 1951 novel High Bright Buggy Wheels, which was reprinted by McClelland & Stewart"s New Canadian Library series in 1978. Born in Stouffville, Ontario, she taught school locally before attending Victoria College at the University of Toronto. Her books included High Bright Buggy Wheels (1951), Turn East, Turn West (1954), Canada, The Struggle for Empire (1960), Canada, Trial and Triumph (1963), Tecumseh, the Story of the Shawnee Chief (1965), Mission Multipenny and Mission Crumb (1966), The Elegant Canadians (1967) and The Hitching Post (1969).
Donald and Luella Creighton"s daughter, Cynthia Flood, is also a noted Canadian writer
Creighton died on March 6, 1996 in Brooklin.