James McGregor Stewart, CBE QC (June 30, 1889 – February 11, 1955) was a corporate lawyer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The motion proposed by Dean Richard Chapman Weldon read: "Serious physical defects should be considered as rendering a candidate ineligible for the Rhodes Scholarship."
[11] He was a businessman, serving as a director of the board of many firms including Royal Bank of Canada, Sun Life, and Montreal Trust.
[12] He was also a President of Acadia Sugar Refining for many years [13] and served as a lawyer to financier, Izaak Walton Killam and the Royal Securities Corporation[14] where he played a role in the consolidation of the Nova Scotia fishing industry [15] Stewart also played a role in the deal that established the seventeen million dollar Mersey paper mill.
In 1939, he participated in a radio debate on the CBC with Dean Frederick Cronkite of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law on the merits of appeals to the JCPC.
[18] He served as Coal Controller during World War II for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board (WPTB) as a dollar-a-year man but was eventually asked to resign by C.D.