William Garden, CM (5 November 1918 – 29 April 2011) was a Canadian and American naval architect and marine engineer.
For six decades, he designed watercraft ranging from commercial fishing vessels and tugboats to motor and sailing yachts.
He then went to work for Andrew's Boat Company on Seattle's Portage Bay and by the age of 24, had turned out more than 50 vessel designs.
He was discharged in the spring of 1946 as a Master Sergeant, After World War II Garden became licensed as a naval architect and set up his own design shop in Washington.
He moved to Victoria, B.C., in the late 1960s and bought a nearby private island he renamed Toad's Landing, where he did his design work from then on.