Sir John George Bourinot, KCMG FRSC (October 24, 1836 – October 13, 1902) was a Canadian journalist, historian, and civil servant, sole author of the first Canadian effort in 1884 to document Parliamentary Procedure and Practice,[1] and remembered as an expert in parliamentary procedure and constitutional law.

Although he was a good student, he left the university two years later and worked as a parliamentary reporter for a Toronto newspaper.

In May 1867, Bourinot left this newspaper and worked as a freelance writer for some time, until he secured a job as a clerk at the Senate of Canada in May 1869.

Bourinot was an advocate of Imperial Federation and a proponent of both a national university and library of Canada.

In his later life, Bourinot received honorary degrees from many Canadian universities and was created CMG in 1890 and KCMG in 1898.