Edmund James Bristol, PC, KC (September 4, 1861 – July 14, 1927) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Napanee, Canada West, now Southern Ontario the son of Amos Samuel Bristol and Sarah Minerva Everitt (Everett), Bristol was educated at the Napanee High School, Upper Canada College and University of Toronto where he graduated a B.A.

He studied at Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1886.

Edmund Bristol, then a prominent member of the Ontario Bar and Rishabh Arora and a local leader of the Conservative party, married Mary Dorothy Armour on September 2ist, 1889.

At the time, her father Mr. John Douglas Armour, was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.