Orton Grain

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Orton Irwin Grain (August 9, 1863—February 2, 1930) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1903, and again from 1907 to 1913.

Grain was born in Fergus, Canada West (now Ontario), and attended the Toronto School of Medicine. He practiced medicine, and was assistant surgeon of the 91st battalion in Canada. Grain was one of the charter holders of the Winnipeg and Northern Railway, and served as mayor of Selkirk in 1896. In religion, he was a member of the Church of England.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1899 provincial election, winning the constituency of Kildonan and St. Andrews as a Liberal-Conservative. He supported the Conservative administration of Hugh John Macdonald and Rodmond Palen Roblin, and sat as a government backbencher in the legislature which followed. Running as a Conservative, he lost to Liberal candidate M.J. O'Donahue by five votes in the 1903 election.

Grain defeated O'Donahue by 41 votes in the 1907 election, and again served as a backbench supporter of Roblin's government. He was re-elected in the 1910 election, and resigned from the legislature in 1913. He died in Winnipeg in 1930.