John Reade

John Reade (1837–1919) was an Irish-born Canadian poet and journalist who settled in Montreal and long served as literary editor of the Montreal Gazette. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada.

His best-known volume is The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems (1870). One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.