Agnes Christina Laut (1871-1936) was a Canadian author. She was born in Stanley Township, Huron County, Ontario. Upon graduating from the University of Manitoba, she wrote for the Manitoba Free Press. Amongst her works are: Lords of the North (1900), The Story of the Trapper (1902), Heralds of Empire (1902), Pathfinders of the West (1904), Vikings of the Pacific (1905), The Conquest of the Great Northwest (1908), Canada: The Empire of the North (1909), The Freebooters of the Wilderness (1910), The New Dawn (1913), The Canadian Commonwealth (1915), Canada at the Cross Roads (1921), The Fur Trade of America (1921), The Quenchless Light (1924), The Conquest of our Western Empire (1927), and Cadillac, Knight Errant of the Wilderness, Founder of Detroit (1931).