James Cranswick Tory (1862-1944) was a Nova Scotia businessman and politician. He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory and Anorah Ferguson in Guysborough County and lived in the village of Guysborough. He attended McGill University in Montreal and worked at Sun Life Assurance Company. In 1894, he married Caroline Whitman. Tory served as a Liberal MLA for Guysborough County in the Legislature of Nova Scotia from 1911 to 1923. He was a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served from 1925 to 1930. He died in Halifax.

Tory's younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and John A. Tory Sr. (b.1869).

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