Accountant, civil servant.
Born at Aberdeen, Scotland on 12 August 1891, son of John Ligertwood, he was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School and became a chartered accountant. He came to Canada in 1908 and lived at Toronto, Ontario until the fall of 1911 when he moved to Winnipeg. He studied accounting and began working for the firm of Montague Aldous and Laing. He received a CA degree in 1915 and was chief accountant at Gordon Ironsides and Fares. In 1917, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served with the 76th Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery.
For several years after the war, he worked at the Winnipeg office of the chartered accounting firm of Peat Marwick and Mitchell, later being transferred to its Calgary office where he became branch manager. He was President of the Alberta Institute of Chartered Accountants (?-?). About 1931, he returned to Winnipeg as branch manager. He was Comptroller-General for the Province of Manitoba from 1932 to his death and was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba (1933-1934).
He married Florence Edna Ross (?-1970) and they had a son, John Ross Ligertwood. He was a keen golfer, being a member of the Southwood Golf Club and later the Niakwa Golf Club, and played cricket with the Winnipeg Wanderers when the team won the John Ross Robertson Cup. He was a member of St. George’s Anglican Church.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 588 River Avenue, on 11 August 1936 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Waugh House (588 River Avenue, Winnipeg)
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Death registration [John Charles Murray Ligertwood], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“J. C. M. Ligertwood, since 1932 comptroller-general dies following stroke,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 August 1936. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
“J. Ligertwood, comptroller of province, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 August 1936, page 3.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 April 2025
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