Edward Francis Carey Sr. (c. 1832 – September 10, 1908) was a Canadian gold prospector, fur trader, and merchant.

After spending a couple years in the fur trade, he went into the general merchant business, establishing stores in Manitoba, and later in Edmonton, North West Territories, where he would move to in 1882.

Carey would operate the first store in the town, as well as a cattle business along with fellow merchant John Norris, until his retirement in the late 1890s.

[3] In 1862, the duo of Cust and Carey, along with Pete Toy another prospector from the Fraser Valley area, headed further north, to Peace River Country.

Shortly after leaving the gold industry, Carey, who had remained Peace River area, went into the fur trading business, along with his prospector partner Bill Cust and three other locals.

[8] He was also an early member of the Edmonton Board of Trade, serving as its inaugural vice president in 1889.

[1] Carey died September 10, 1908, at his home in Edmonton,[1] less a month after the death of his former prospecting partner Bill Cust.

His funeral was held at First Presbyterian Church in Edmonton; it was attended by many local dignitaries and notables including James Ross, Henry William McKenney, Daniel Maloney, William Antrobus Griesbach, Daniel R. Fraser, as well as former mayors Matthew McCauley, Cornelius Gallagher, and sitting Mayor John Alexander McDougall.