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 a member 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.

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