Ernest J. Chambers

Ernest J. Chambers (16 April 1862 – 11 May 1925) was a Canadian militia officer, journalist, author, and civil servant.

Chambers was born in Penkridge, England. He and his family moved to Montreal in 1870 where his father became headmaster of a British-Canadian school. He studied at Prince Albert School in Saint-Henri and the High School of Montreal. He was Captain of the Montreal High School Cadet Rifles. After graduation, he became a journalist with the Montreal Daily Star, where he covered the Frederick Dobson Middleton and the North-West Rebellion of the Métis people.

From 1904–1925, he served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, the most senior protocol position in the Parliament of Canada. In that role, he was the chief press censor of anti-war material during World War I.^[1]

He died in Vaudreuil, Quebec in 1925 at the age of 63.

Publications

• Ernest J. Chambers, The Montreal Highland Cadets: being a record of the organization and development of a useful and interesting corps, with some notes on the cadet movements in Britain and Canada (Montreal: Desbarats & Co., 1901)

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