George Gurnett (c. 1792 – November 17, 1861) was a Canadian journalist and city of Toronto politician.

Gurnett later moved to Ancaster in Upper Canada, where he founded his first local paper, The Gore Gazette, and finally to York in 1829, where he founded the Tory paper The Courier of Upper Canada.

[2] Due to his long service on council and his years as mayor he is often considered to be one of the founders of the city of Toronto.

[3] He held positions on committees that dealt with the harbour and wharves, gas and waterworks, and education.

He was chairman of the board of health during the 1847 typhus epidemic[4] Gurnett resigned from the city council at the end of 1850, after having been appointed the first police magistrate of Toronto.