Colonel Charles Frederick Hamilton (1879–1933) was a Canadian intelligence officer and newspaper journalist.
[1][2] Hamilton was born in Roslin, Ontario, in 1879, and later graduated from Queen's University[3] As a journalist, Hamilton first worked for The Toronto World, and from 1899 to 1902, at the Toronto Globe, where he covered the Boer War and "scooped" coverage of the Battle of Paardeberg.
[6] During World War I, Hamilton served as a deputy chief censor, where he focused largely on cablegrams and radio traffic.
[1][7][8] Following the war, in 1919, he returned to the Royal North-West Mounted Police, where he was made intelligence liaison, and became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's first intelligence officer.
[1][9] There he penned influential reports on naval policy and voiced concern about a military threat from Japan in the 1920s.