Thomas Hourston (February 12, 1854[1] – April 11, 1905) was a politician from Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.

Hourston was born in Birsay, Orkney, Scotland and emigrated to Canada as a young man.

[2] He later opened a fur store and started the area's first dairy farm.

In 1881 he married Maria Annal; they had two children, one of whom died in infancy.

Thomas Hourston died in Guelph, Ontario April 11, 1905.