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Graham Creighton was the eldest of ten children born at West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia to Alexander and Margaret (Campbell) Creighton on September 15, 1860. He was educated at Pictou Academy and then entered Dalhousie University as a Junior Munro Exhibition Scholar with a Junior Munro Bursary, graduating with a B.A. in 1904.
Graham began his teaching career early. He began teaching with a permissive license at age fifteen, and in 1882 he received a first class license from the Provincial Normal College in Truro. He taught at a number of schools throughout the province before moving to Halifax to accept a position as the Principle of Morris St. Grammar School. In 1895 Creighton was appointed county school inspector, a position he held until 1935 when he retired. Graham Creighton had six children with Catherine Murray, whom he married on August 27, 1891. He suffered a stroke in late 1938 and died on January 2, 1939 at the age of seventy-eight.
In 1962, Graham Creighton's contribution to the community was recognized when Graham Creighton High School officially opened on Cherry Brook Road in Cole Harbour. Although it is now a junior high, the school continues to bear his name.