Donald Stringer (December 29, 1933 – January 8, 1979) was a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.
[2] Stringer failed to make the 1952 Olympic team due to overturning his boat in the Ottawa trials.
However, he broke Frank Amyot's 1936 record when he won the senior 1,000 metre singles at the Canadian national championships in 1952.
The next year he beat the Olympic gold medallist Frank Havens at a competition in Washington.
[2] He was named to the 1956 Olympic team and finished seventh in the C-1 10,000m, which was the best Canadian result in canoe-kayak at those games.