James William Scallion (14 February 1842 - 24 April 1926) was an Irish-born Canadian teacher, farmer and agrarian activist.

[2] Scallion, his brother and two sisters built substantial stone buildings on the property, which was 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the village.

There was a bumper crop that year, and farmers found they could not get their produce to market because the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the grain companies were failing to conform to the act.

[5] In December 1901 William Richard Motherwell (1860–1943) and Peter Dayman arranged a meeting where a group of Saskatchewan farmers agreed to form the Territorial Grain Growers' Association (TGGA) to represent their interests, and nominated Motherwell as provisional president and John Millar as provisional secretary.

[1] Scallion spent the next two months visiting other farming communities in Manitoba and encouraging the formation of local grain growers' associations.

[1] In December 1910 Scallion and other leaders of the agrarian movement, including Ernest Charles Drury, Robert Sellar and James Speakman, traveled to Ottawa with a delegation of more than 800 farmers to present the farmers' platform of grievances to the government of Canada.

Scallion called for the high tariff on farm-related goods from the United States to be removed, since many farmers depended on imports from the US.

[1] Scallion was opposed to the increase in Canadian military spending that preceded World War I (1914–18).

Are the people of Canada going to encourage European militarism and the estrangement of nations by spending millions in the construction of warships?"

At the annual MGGA meeting the delegates voted against any naval policy, prompting an observer to remark that "they seem to weigh all public issues on their grain scales.