Joseph James Hargrave FRGS (1 April 1841 – 22 February 1894) was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader, author, and journalist.

[1][2] Joseph James Hargrave was born and raised at York Factory, a fur trading post on Hudson Bay.

Hargrave returned to North America in 1861 and became an apprentice clerk for the HBC, and a secretary to his uncle William Mactavish—the governor of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia.

In 1869, he began writing a series of articles for the Montreal Herald about the anticipated transfer of land from the HBC to Canada.

He is buried in Dean Cemetery in west Edinburgh.