James Cranswick Tory was a Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

 businessman and politician. He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory

Robert Kirk Tory

Robert Kirk Tory was a Methodist minister in Nova Scotia.Married to Anorah Ferguson, they had three sons and started a political family spanning Nova Scotia and Ontario.* James Cranswick Tory Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia...

 and Anorah Ferguson in Guysborough County and lived in the village of Guysborough. He attended McGill University

McGill University

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 in Montreal

Montreal

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 and worked at Sun Life Assurance Company. In 1894, he married Caroline Whitman. Tory served as a Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

 MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 for Guysborough County in the Legislature of Nova Scotia from 1911 to 1923. He was a minister without portfolio

Minister without Portfolio

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 in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia

The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia is the viceregal representative in Nova Scotia of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the...

 and served from 1925 to 1930. He died in Halifax

City of Halifax

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.

Tory's younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory

Henry Marshall Tory

Henry Marshall Tory was the first president of the University of Alberta , the first president of the Khaki University, the first president of the National Research Council and the first president of Carleton College...

, founding president of the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...

 and the National Research Council of Canada

National Research Council of Canada

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, and John A. Tory Sr. (b.1869).

External links

• Tory Tory Tory
• Marble, AE Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches ... (1977) p. 385 ISBN 0-88999-074-3