Charles Morris (8 June 1711 – buried 4 November 1781) was an army officer, served on the Nova Scotia Council, was the Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1776-1778) and, as the surveyor general for over 32 years, he created the first British maps of the Canada's maritime region and designed the layout of Halifax, Lunenburg, Lawrencetown, and Liverpool. In Halifax he laid out both the present-day down town core and the Halifax Commons.