Farm Aerials
My Anger grandparents and aunts and uncles had large aerial photographs of their properties hanging in their living rooms. Always pride of place. I loved them. We didn’t have one,…
Sam Anger, Fiddler
Sam Anger was "the best durn fiddle player in seventeen counties." That's what an ad for Winger's Crescent Park Entertainers called him. He worked as a blacksmith in Ridgeway, just…
Murel Anger, Mail Carrier
In 1972 my mother wrote this Dorchester Signpost article about her mother-in-law's retirement from rural mail delivery. Mom was the weekly's Belmont reporter. She put it in her scrapbook with…
Frederick Anger, Welland or Wisconsin
The History of the County of Welland, Ontario: Its past and present 1887 James E. Anger, publisher and proprietor of the Niagara Falls Review, and Rev. William H. Anger, principal…
Dad’s Homemade Tow Truck
My brother asked if there were pictures of Dad's tow truck in Mom's photo albums. We only found one, with Bing the service station dog inside. My brother told me…
William Anger and Emma Nie
(William Anger and Emma Nie 1958, text below) Their Wedding 70 Years Ago Two lifelong residents of this district will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of their wedding day this…
Battle of Ridgeway
Today marks a bizarre incident in Canadian history. Irish-Americans invaded Canada, planning to hold it hostage as leverage to end British rule in Ireland. My family's farmhouse was smack-dab in…
G. Frederick Anger UEL
In colonial times Georg Frederick Anger, a native of Germany, lived on the Susquehannah River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he joined Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara.…
Austin Anger, a story
My cousin Lynda Sykes wrote this story about our grandfather Austin Anger. She and her mother had dug out some old family pictures. Among them was the one here of…
Anger by name…
Years ago, I was in a public library in Los Angeles and found reference books on family histories. I looked up my family name, Anger. It said the name came…
Remembering
Every Remembrance Day, I am remembering my father. George Anger was a WWII veteran. In December of 1942 he went overseas and he returned home in October 1945. He was…
Anger Family Tree
Austin and Murel (Mabee) Anger, my grandparents, outside their home near Union, Elgin County, Ontario June 1943. Grandma wrote on the back, "Dad and I ready to go to city".…