(14 Sept. 1846-30 Jan. 1934), crown attorney. Born on his parents’ farm, on Lot 34 in the 8th Concession of Lochiel Township, GC. Parents: Alexander McCrimmon, a native of Scotland, and his wife Jane Ross. Angus McCrimmon attended the local school, the grammar school at Cornwall, and normal school. He taught school in the Montreal area, and at Teeswater and Durham, Ont., and was principal of the grammar school at St. Thomas, Ont. Turning to the law, he studied in law offices in St. Thomas and Toronto, and at Osgoode Hall, and was called to the bar in 1884. He practised law at St. Thomas, at first in partnership with his cousin Neil McCrimmon. Later, Angus McCrimmon’s son-in-law W. A. Wilson was a partner. In the Ontario general elections of 1890 and 1902 Angus McCrimmon stood as the Liberal candidate for the constituency of Elgin West, but was defeated both times. In 1903 he was appointed crown attorney for Elgin County. While crown attorney, he continued to practise law on a limited scale. He was also for a time sheriff or acting sheriff of Elgin County. He retired in Sept. 1933 as crown attorney. In retirement, he continued his legal practice. He was for many years local solicitor of the Imperial Bank of Canada. Angus McCrimmon died at Memorial Hospital, St. Thomas. He was married to Alice Morden (died 11 Jan. 1921). (six children, four surviving her) Their son Dr Alexander A. McCrimmon (died 24 Jan. 1912) was the mayor of Rainy River, Ont. Another son, Donald, was a lawyer at St. Thomas and a magistrate. Angus McCrimmon was the nephew of Donald Ogg McCrimmon and the brother of Dr D. A. McCrimmon. See the entries for Neil Fraser, Simon Fraser of Lochinvar, and John A. McCrimmon for further family connections.

     John Kenneth Galbraith names Angus McCrimmon as one of the four men who ”for some forty years” ran Elgin County. (Galbraith’s own father was one of the four). All four, as Galbraith notes, were “Men of Standing.” Living to the age of 87, and youthful in spirit we are told to the end, McCrimmon must have seemed the living symbol of the celebrated hardiness of the Highlanders. Angus McCrimmon was a fluent Gaelic speaker. He had a deep reverence for Scotland and was imbued with the strongest sense of his Scottish identity. He maintained his contacts with his home county of GC. In recent years, two of his McCrimmon grandsons returned to live in GC. Angus McCrimmon contributed a series of articles to the Glengarry News in 1929 and 1930 on his tour of Scotland, and occasionally published in that newspaper on other subjects. It is a hint at his political connections that when he visited Cornwall in 1922, he was the guest of John A. McDougald. (Cornwall Standard 13 July 1922) When Mitch Hepburn, still a few years from the premiership but already campaigning, spoke at Alexandria in 1931, he mentioned Crown Attorney Angus McCrimmon. (Cornwall Freeholder 9 May 1931)

Glengarry News 2 & 9 Feb. 1934 (includes material from St. Thomas, Ont., press), Standard Freeholder 2 Feb. 1934 * Lochinvar to Skye 134-153 (esp. 139-140) (with portrait) * Roderick Lewis, 72 & 73 * his reminiscences of his Christmas visit to GC, GN 19 March 1926 * article on, GN 13 Oct. 1933 * death of Dr Alexander A. McCrimmon, Cornwall Freeholder & GN both 2 Feb. 1912 * John Kenneth Galbraith, The Scotch (Penguin Books, 1966) 68 * Whyte, i, 180 (father, kinsfolk) * visits his old home farm in GC, GN 11 Sept. 1931