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Charles Camsell (February 8, 1876 – December 19, 1958) was a Canadian geologist and the commissioner of the Northwest Territories from December 3, 1936, to December 3, 1946.
In 1920, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Mines and, in 1936, Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources.
He retired from the Public Service of Canada in 1946 at the age of 70.
From 1941 Camsell was an original standing committee member of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. The Foundation for the Study of Cycles is an international non-profit research organisation for the study of Frequency of events.
Camsell founded the Canadian Geographical Society (now the Royal Canadian Geographical Society) in 1929, and was its president from 1930 to 1941. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is a Canadian non-profit educational organization dedicated to imparting a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada — its people and places, its natural and cultural heritage and its environmental, social and economic challenges. The Society is the publisher of Canadian Geographic magazine and its French-language counterpart Géographica.
In 1935 Camsell was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George by King George V. In 1945 the Royal Geographical Society of London awarded him their Founder's Medal for his contributions to geology.
The Charles Camsell Hospital, opened in Edmonton in 1946, was named after Camsell.
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