| James Cranswick Tory | |
| Order: | 14th |
| Office: | Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia |
| Term Start: | September 14, 1925 |
| Term End: | November 19, 1930 |
| Predecessor: | James Robson Douglas |
| Successor: | Frank Stanfield |
| Governor General: | The Viscount Byng of Vimy The Viscount Willingdon |
| Premier: | Edgar Nelson Rhodes Gordon Sidney Harrington |
| Office1: | MLA for Guysborough County |
| Term Start1: | June 14, 1911 |
| Term End1: | June 25, 1925 |
| Predecessor1: | James F. Ellis William Whitman |
| Successor1: | Simon Osborn Giffin Howard Amos Rice |
| Alongside1: | James F. Ellis, Clarence W. Anderson |
| Birth Date: | 24 October 1862 |
| Birth Place: | Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia |
| Death Place: | Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Relations: | Robert Kirk Tory (father) |
| Alma Mater: | McGill University |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| Profession: | Politician |
James Cranswick Tory (October 24, 1862 – June 26, 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 Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925. He was a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed the 14th 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. (1869–1950).
A portrait of him hangs in the Tupper Building, Dalhouise University, Nova Scotia.