Stuart Zachary Taylor Wood, CMG (October 17, 1889 – January 4, 1966) served as the ninth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from March 6, 1938 to April 30, 1951.
Shortly after he secured a commission in the RNW Mounted Police and served with the Force until his retirement in 1951, almost forty years.
He served in the Yukon upon returning to Canada in 1919 as Justice of the Peace, Coroner, Sheriff, Game Inspector and Customs Officer.
He organized a permanent Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band, (later disbanded by Commissioner Inkster in 1994).
In the 1950s Wood was responsible for compiling a "blacklist" called PROFUNC, which was a Government of Canada top secret plan to identify and detain communist sympathizers during the height of the Cold War.
352, British Army Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood (1876-1899), who died of wounds in South Africa in 1899 as a member of the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) during the Second Boer War.