Dave Godfrey (9 August 1938 – 21 June 2015) was a Canadian writer, professor, and publisher.
His novel The New Ancestors won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1970.
He taught in Ghana for several years including Adisadel College, Cape Coast from 1963 to 1965 where he was the English and music instructor.
In 1979 he edited a book on the subject with Douglas Parkhill, Gutenberg two, on the social and political meaning of computer technology, and he wrote The Telidon Book with Ernest Chang, about electronic publishing and video text, and founded a software development company called Softwords, working in that field.
[1] He later ran a 60-acre vineyard and farm in the Cowichan Valley of British Columbia.