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6 Friday, June 24, 2022brooklintowncrier.com Jack McClelland sat in the front of a horse drawn buggy that clip-clopped through downtown Toronto. It was the fall of 1951 and McClelland, of McClelland and Stewart publishers, was trying to draw attention to the publication of Luella Creighton's first novel High Bright Buggy Wheels. The lively promotion marked the beginning of Luella's successful writing career. Book sales were quite good and the CBC even aired a radio drama based on the story. That same year, the People's Choice book club picked it as their Book of the Month. In 1978, it was reprinted under the McClelland and Stewart New Canadian Library Series. Indeed, Luella Creighton was the wife of well known historian Donald Creighton whom she married in 1926. Studied at the Sorbonne When her husband went to England to study at Balliol College, Oxford, she completed studies in Art History at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Back in Toronto, while running a real estate office, raising two children and assisting her husband with his writing projects, she wrote and published children's stories for the American magazine "The New Outlook." She later turned to adult short fiction, publishing The Cornfield in 1936 and Miss Kidd in 1937. She also wrote Turn East, Turn West (1954) and the non-fiction book Canada, The Struggle for Empire (1960). She also authored several textbooks and served as a member of the Central Ontario Regional Library board. Into Brooklin In 1962, the Creightons moved to Brooklin. Cynthia Flood, their daughter and a noted Canadian author in her own right, said that when her father retired, they bought the 15 Princess Street house so her mother would have a garden. The Toronto houses they'd rented or owned didn't have good light or space but the Brooklin property was the ideal place to grow a terrific rose garden. It was in that Princess Street home that Luella wrote the non-fiction, Canada, Trial and Triumph (1963), and the juvenile biography, Tecumseh, the Story of the Shawnee Chief, (1965) which was published in the Great Stories of Canada series. The books Miss Multipenny and Miss Crumb and The Elegant Canadians (non-fiction) followed in 1966 and 1967, respectively. Her last book, The Hitching Post, was published on January 1, 1969. It was the story of Cecilia Crabtree who lived with her grandfather in a house in the small village of Crabtree Corners - perhaps a stand-in for Brooklin. The house had a blue- green hitching post that performed magic. Uxbridge youth Luella, née Sanders Bruce, was born and grew up in the farming community of Stouffville. For two years she taught in a rural school near Uxbridge until she attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto where she graduated with a BA in 1926. She was 94 when she died at her home on March 6, 1996. She is resting with her husband at St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery in Columbus. Luella Creighton By Jennifer Hudgins