Edward Alexander Colquhoun

Edward Alexander Colquhoun (September 14, 1844 – November 16, 1904) was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada from 1897 to 1898. He represented Hamilton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1902 as a Conservative member.

The son of James Colquhoun, a barrister, he was born in Ayr, Canada West and was educated in Berlin, Ontario (later Kitchener). In 1864, Colquhoun began work with the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa, He joined the Bank of Hamilton in 1872; who was Colquhoun's wife's uncle.

He was elected to the Ontario assembly in 1898, but was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1902, running as an independent. He died two years later following surgery to remove a growth from his neck.

Colquhoun Park in Hamilton was created as a memoriam to the Colquhoun estate in a land agreement that was made through expropriation and subsequently broken.