Stanley Angus

Stanley Angus was born in Vancouver on May 13, 1903. Stan was a Champion even before he moved to Trail. He played with Ex King George Team when they won the Provincial Rugby title, and with the Ex King George Hockey Team when they won the Vancouver Championships in 1923/24, and also when they won the Provincial title in 1924/25. Stan?s international championship was in sculling, when he was one of the most-medal winning oarsmen on the Pacific Coast, winning 11 titles as a member of the Vancouver Rowing Club.  Stan moved to Trail in 1926.

For many years, Stan was associated with the Trail Figure Skating Club where he was on the Executive, was a certified Judge of the Canadian Figure Skating Association and worked on many carnival committees from the early 1940s. In 1949, Stan, with a partner, Connie Shutek, won the waltz and tango in the Silver Dance Event at the Western Canadian Champsionships.

In 1951, Stan, and his daughter Paddy, competed in the Silver Dance Competition at the Canadian Championships held in Vancouver. They were the first father/daughter team to compete in the Canadians, then or since.

In the fall of 1954, Stan was shot in the calf of his right leg in a hunting accident near Grand Forks, BC. He was told that he would walk with canes for the rest of his life, so to help with the rehab, Stan took up golf, using clubs as canes. In 1958, Stan was runnerup in the BC Senior?s Golf and in 1959, he was the BC Senior's Champion.

Stan passed away in 1986.