(2 Feb. 1910-8 Jan. 1992), noted athlete. Born at St. Regis, on the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reserve. Parents: Jake George and his wife Susan Foote. In the 1920s Angus George and his family lived part-time in the Glen Nevis area of GC. He attended school at Glen Nevis. The family made baskets and axe-handles and sold them at places which included the Macdonell general store (see Angus A. Macdonell) at St. Raphael’s. At this time, also, Angus George was involved in bushwork and fishing and trapping. “He acquired and retained into old age a familiarity with the county, not just the highways and sideroads, but the creeks, forests and swamps, that few, native Glengarrians or others, could equal.” (Lanken) Angus George could remember walking from Glen Nevis to Hawkesbury to sell muskrat skins. He became one of North America’s ablest players of box lacrosse. In the early 1930s he belonged to the Cornwall Island Indians lacrosse team, which played in a league which included Alexandria. Lacrosse was a favourite sport at Alexandria at this time and was played at Chisholm Park, donated by A.M. Chisholm.

     Afterwards, Angus George played professional box lacrosse in Syracuse, N.Y., Wilkes-Barre, the Vancouver area, and California, and with the Kahnawake-Akwesasne team of the Quebec League. After leaving professional sports he was a high steel construction worker on projects including the St. Lawrence Seaway. He retired at St. Regis, but kept up many contacts in GC. He died in the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall. He was married to Lilian Hemlock, granddaughter of one of the boatsmen of the Nile Expedition of 1884-1885. Angus George was a guest of honour at the Maxville Sports Banquet in 1990. He was inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

Obituary by Dane Lanken, Glengarry News 22 Jan. 1992 (portrait), repr. in updated form Glengarry Life 1992 with different illustr. * biog. study (with further and esp. fine photo) by Dane Lanken, GN 23 Aug. 1995 * Joe Banks, “A Story That Deserves a Movie,” GN 6 Sept. 1995 * Dane Lanken, “Lacrosse: ‘Little Brother of War,’ the Indians Called It,” Canadian Geographic, Oct./Nov. 1984 (illustr.) * photo of Angus George visiting Glengarry News office, GN 27 July 1977 * description by Ken McKenna of visit to Mrs George, GN 9 March 1994 * recollections of Angus George and the St. Regis lacrosse players in Alexandria, by newspaper editor G.O. Saxton, letter, GN 5 May 1993 * Angus George mentioned in reports of Alexandria lacrosse games, e.g., GN 7 June 1935 * nephew seeks recollections concerning Angus George, GN 1 April 1998