John James Moncrieff (October 9, 1866 – April 11, 1939) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, singer and conductor.
[1] The son of Lawrence Moncrieff, he was born in Scalloway in the Shetland Islands and came to St. Andrews in the Red River Colony with his family in 1875.
He was educated in Winnipeg and began working as a clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company.
In 1883, he apprenticed with a printer at Rat Portage (later Kenora, Ontario).
In 1907, he became the first president of the Winnipeg Oratorio Society, also serving as conductor.