Hilary Stewart (3 November 1924 – 5 June 2014) was a Saint Lucia- born Canadian writer known for her books about the Northwest Coast First Nations people.

She was in the military during the Second World War, and after leaving the forces, she arrived in Canada in 1951.

[2] She was a founding member of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia[3] which started in 1966.

She experimented by splitting cedar to understand better how the First Nation people made their tools and art.

She died in 2014, leaving her books and an endowment fund for the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.