Richard B. Angus - Legacy and Family

Legacy and Family

R.B. Angus had occupied one of the most prominent positions in Canadian banking by the age of thirty eight. Abandoning that position for a highly speculative railway venture, he not only revealed his personality but also the allure of the railways and the riches they offered. As President of the Bank of Montreal and with the fortune he made from the CPR he had already secured for himself a place of the highest standing in Canada, but he more than doubled that fortune through his associations with, and investments in coal, pulp and paper, iron and steel, land and insurance. His estate was divided between his eight surviving children,

• Elspeth Hudson Angus (1858–1936), married Charles Meredith
• Bertha Angus, married Robert MacDougall Paterson (1859–1922), stockbroker of Montreal
• Edith Margaret Angus (d.1907), married Frederic Lumb Wanklyn (1860–1930), CPR executive, vice-president of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, President of the Montreal Terminal Railway
• Margaret Forrest Angus, married Dr. Charles F. Martin (1868–1953), Dean of the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. He was later President of the Montreal Art Association and succeeded Martha Allan as President of the Montreal Repertory Theatre.
• (Donald) Forbes Angus (1866–1943), Chairman of Standard Life Assurance and President of Guardian Life Assurance. Among others, he was a director of the Bank of Montreal, the Royal Trust Company and the British Columbia Sugar Refinery. He married Mary Henshaw, daughter of Colonel F.C. Henshaw of Montreal and his wife Maud MacDougall.
• Maud Angus (d.1946), married Dr. Walter William Chipman (1867–1950), Chief of Gynaecology at the Royal Victoria Hospital; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at McGill.
• William Forrest Angus (1873–1951), President of the Dominion Bridge Company and the Mental Hygiene Institute, Montreal.
• (David) James Angus, of Rockland Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia

Although Lord Mount Stephen is generally credited as the genius that created the CPR empire, with his banking and administrative experience Angus was an indispensable lieutenant. In 1904, the CPR named its new repair complexes in Montreal the CPR Angus Shops in his honour. He died at his summer house, 'Pine Bluff', September 17, 1922. On the day of his funeral, two days later, the CPR stopped all trains for two minutes – a symbolic gesture to one of its founding partners. He was buried at the Mount Royal Cemetery.