Archives Catalogue

MS-2-701, Box 25, Folder 7
File
1989-

File is a watercolour painting on watercolour paper. Noted on verso is "film 01.39." Painting depicts a row of houses in Prospect, Nova Scotia.

Stories

MS-2-701, Box 5, Folder 5
File
[1930s]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

Album of handwritten short stories, and several loose pages both handwritten and typed, by Alan Creighton.

Stories

MS-2-701, Box 2, Folder 11
File
[19--]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains loose pages of writing by Alan Creighton, some short stories. Missing pages.

Still Life of Shoes and Hats

MS-2-701, Box 29, Folder 16
File
19---

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 painting in watercolour on paper. Noted on verso is "film 98.58." Painting depicts hats and shoes.

Speak French: A Book for Soldiers

MS-2-701, Box 9, Folder 9
File
1917-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 small lesson book of basic spoken French for soldiers, inscribed by Alan

Snap Shops Album - Winter 1982

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 3
File
1982-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 17 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor winter scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Water

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 8
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 3 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting water scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Trees

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 14
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 5 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting trees and wooded scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Tree Scenes

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 2
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 20 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting trees and wooded scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Toronto Outdoor Art Show, 1983

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 25
File
1983-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 14 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting people and art displays at the Toronto Outdoor Art Show.

Snap Shops Album - Toronto Harbour and Toronto Island

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 30
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 17 colour photographs, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting scenes of people on a boat (ferry?) and some landscapes.

Snap Shops Album - Toronto: Danforth and Pharmacy Area

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 4
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 20 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes from the Danforth and Pharmacy area of Toronto, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Toronto Buildings

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 28
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 7 colour photographs depicting exterior building shots in Toronto, Ontario.

Snap Shops Album - Scarborough

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 13
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 6 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes, mostly during winter, at Scarborough, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Pickering, Ontario 1983

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 23
File
1983-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 6 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes at Pickering, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Owen Sound, Ontario

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 17
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 10 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes at Owen Sound, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his

Snap Shops Album - Nature

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 27
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 20 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting trees, flowers, and nature scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Leaves

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 29
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 7 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting leaves and foliage. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Landscapes

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 32
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 18 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting nature scenes. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Landforms

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 9
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 12 colour photographs size9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting landforms, likely in Toronto, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Kentville

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 11
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 5 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes at Kentville, Nova Scotia. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Kentville

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 10
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 20 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting scenes at a carnival in Ontario in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Industrialization

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 22
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 20 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor industrial scenes, possibly in Toronto, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - In Warden Woods

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 20
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 11 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting nature scenes at Warden Woods. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Houses

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 16
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 18 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes, mostly exterior shots of houses, possibly at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Hantsport

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 5
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 19 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes at Hantsport, Nova Scotia. Possibly used as inspiration for his

Snap Shops Album - Halifax, Hantsport, Montreal

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 31
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 16 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes (mostly buildings) at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hantsport, Nova Scotia, and Montreal, Quebec.

Snap Shops Album - Foliage

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 12
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 9 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting nature scenes with foliage. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Foliage

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 26
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 17 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting trees and foliage. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Dartmouth - Halifax

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 7
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 14 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, outdoor scenes in Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Possibly used as inspiration for his

Snap Shops Album - Clouds

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 19
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 8 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting cloud formations in Scarborough, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Boats

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 24
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 18 colour photographs size 10x10 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, depicting boats and harbourfront activity. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - At Harbourfront: HMS Bristol and The Tall Ships

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1984-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 12 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting harbour scenes and boats. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Around Toronto

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 6
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 12 colour photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes in Toronto, Ontario. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Snap Shops Album - Apartment

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 1
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 11 colour photographs size 9x9 cm, taken by Alan Creighton, mostly of his apartment in Ontario (possibly Scarborough) and its environs.

Snap Shops Album - Annapolis and Kentville

MS-2-701, Box 15, Folder 18
File
[198-?]-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 1 album with 13 photographs taken by Alan Creighton, depicting outdoor scenes at Annapolis and Kentville, Nova Scotia. Possibly used as inspiration for his paintings.

Sky and other Paintings

MS-2-701, Box 18, Folder 6
File
19---

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 8 loose sketches depicting a variety of scenes but predominantly skies and clouds.

Sketches of People by A.B. Creighton

MS-2-701, Box 16, Folder 1
File
1982-

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains loose sketches depicting "Concert at Massey Hall, Feb. 1982" and other figure studies. Items previously housed together in a photo album titled "Sketches."

Sketches of People

MS-2-701, Box 25, Folder 4
File
19---

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains loose sketches in watercolour depicting landscapes with prominent human figures.

Sketches and Studies, 1988 - 1989

MS-2-701, Box 25, Folder 11
File
1988-1989

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 3 albums (58 sketches total) in pencil, charcoal, and watercolour, size 28x38 cm. Noted on covers are "film 01.31," "films 01.34 + 01.35 + 01.36," and "films 01.12 and 01.13." Sketches depict landscapes, houses, people, etc. Some sketches are labeled, including one titled "Goodman House in Kentville," likely Marge (Creighton) Goodman's home.

Sketches

Subseries
1912-1964

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

Sketches

Series
1921-2001

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

Series consists of sketches and art studies by Alan Creighton in various media, including pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, and watercolour and oil paints. Subjects include people (faces and figures as well as studies of isolated body parts), landscapes (particularly coastal and wooded scenes), and studies of various elements of nature (such as clouds).

Sketches

Subseries
1921-2001

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

Sketches

MS-2-701, Box 25, Folder 13
File
1984-1985

Part of Alan Creighton fonds

File contains 2 albums of sketches (17 sheets total) in watercolour, size 31x36 cm. Noted on covers is "film 01.12" and "film 01.14." Sketches depict landscapes and houses, some are identified.

Short Stories