C. F. Hamilton

{{Short description|Canadian intelligence officer and journalist}}

Colonel Charles Frederick Hamilton (1879–1933) was a Canadian intelligence officer and newspaper journalist.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bkowAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TKgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4734,632319&dq=cf-hamilton+rcmp&hl=en|title=Colonel C. F. Hamilton is Dead in Ottawa|date=December 6, 1933|work=Montreal Gazette|page=5|accessdate=20 December 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rhVkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DHsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3807,4107483&dq=cf-hamilton+rcmp&hl=en|title=Noted Police-Writer Veteran Passed Away|date=December 6, 1933|work=Calgary Daily Herald|accessdate=20 December 2012}}

Hamilton was born in Roslin, Ontario, in 1879, and later graduated from Queen's University{{cite book|last1=Kinsman|first1=Gary William|last2=Buse|first2=Dieter K.|last3=Steedman|first3=Mercedes|title=Whose National Security?: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XBtBapxXrMC&pg=PA21|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=2000-10-30|publisher=Between The Lines|isbn=9781896357256|pages=21–}}

As a journalist, Hamilton first worked for The Toronto World, and from 1899 to 1902, at the Toronto Globe, where he covered the Boer War and "scooped" coverage of the Battle of Paardeberg. He later worked at the Toronto News.{{cite book|last=Wood|first=James A.|title=Militia Myths: Ideas of the Canadian Citizen Soldier, 1896-1921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OujEhSfIvIsC&pg=PA287|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=2010-03-15|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=9780774817653|pages=287–}}{{cite book|last1=Hadley|first1=Michael L.|last2=Sarty|first2=Roger|title=Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships: Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders 1880-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0w-ty4mkV0C&pg=PA24|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=1991-01-01|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=9780773507784|pages=24–}}

He co-authored a biography of George Monro Grant, Principal Grant, in 1904.{{cite book|last1=Christie|first1=Nancy|last2=Gauvreau|first2=Michael|title=A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbUisD54Fz8C&pg=PA32|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=2001-03-01|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=9780773522404|pages=32–}}

During World War I, Hamilton served as a deputy chief censor, where he focused largely on cablegrams and radio traffic.{{cite book|last=Baker|first=William M.|title=The Mounted Police & Prairie Society 1873-1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwm0mR3EoCYC&pg=PA361|accessdate=20 December 2012|year=1998|publisher=CPRC Press|isbn=9780889771031|pages=361–}}{{cite book|last=Keshen|first=Jeff|title=Propaganda and Censorship During Canada's Great War|url=https://archive.org/details/propagandacensor0000kesh|url-access=registration|accessdate=20 December 2012|year=1996|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=9780888642790|pages=[https://archive.org/details/propagandacensor0000kesh/page/72 72]–}}

Following the war, in 1919, he returned to the Royal North-West Mounted Police, where he was made intelligence liaison, and became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's first intelligence officer.{{cite book|title=The Institute Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAs6AQAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada|page=19}} There he penned influential reports on naval policy and voiced concern about a military threat from Japan in the 1920s.{{cite book|last=Donaghy|first=Greg|title=Contradictory Impulses: Canada and Japan in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtCdnTPdSXUC&pg=PA69|accessdate=20 December 2012|year=2008|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=9780774814430|pages=69–}} He served in that capacity at the RCMP until his death in 1933.{{cite book|last1=Whitaker|first1=Reg|last2=Kealey|first2=Gregory S.|last3=Parnaby|first3=Andrew|title=Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ur0u3WQzy3UC&pg=PT171|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=2012-09-14|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442662384|pages=171–}}{{cite book|last=Wark|first=Wesley K.|title=Espionage: Past Present and Future?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47szqkZQ1sYC&pg=PA133|accessdate=20 December 2012|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780714645155|pages=133–}}