Sir George Robert Parkin KCMG (February 8, 1846 – June 25, 1922) was a Canadian educator, imperialist, and author.

From 1872 to 1889, he was the headmaster of the Fredericton Collegiate School, where the poets Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Francis Sherman came under his influence.

He was the author of Imperial Federation: The Problem of National Unity (1892) and a school textbook, Round the Empire.

[7] He is the subject of biographies by Sir John Willison, "Sir George Parkin: A biography" (London, 1929); William Christian, "Parkin: Canada's most famous forgotten man" (Toronto, 2008), and Terry Cook, "Apostle of empire: Sir George Parkin and imperial federation" (Phd Thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont., 1977).

The fonds consists of 10.85 metres of textual records and a small amount of photographs and other media.