Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis CMG (19 October 1820 – 7 July 1885) was a Canadian surveyor, militia officer, and civil servant, born in Kingston, Upper Canada.
[1] In 1866, Dennis led an ill-fated militia attack against the Fenians at Fort Erie.
He was the father of Colonel John Stoughton Dennis Jr., who also became a noted surveyor and militia officer.
[3] In 1916 Mount Dennis in the Canadian Rockies was named for him.
[4] This biography of a person who has held a non-elected position in the Government of Canada is a stub.