Angus Cameron Hamilton

1922-2023

Angus Cameron Hamilton was born 18 April 1922 in Listowel and grew up on a farm near Drayton, Ontario. Angus finished high school in the spring of 1939, and after a brief stint as a junior clerk at the Royal Bank of Canada, he joined the RCAF as a Radar Mechanic in April 1941. He served on night-fighter squadrons in Northern Ireland and in India until the end of World War II. After the war he took Engineering Physics at the University of Toronto receiving a B.A.Sc. in 1949 and a M.A.Sc. in 1951.  In 1949 he married Margaret Fisher and in 1951 they moved to Ottawa and began his career with the federal civil service in various surveying and mapping positions in what is now the Department of Natural Resources. In 1971, he left Ottawa for his second career as university professor and department chair in the Department of Surveying Engineering (now Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering) at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He retired in 1985 and was made Professor Emeritus in 1986. In 1973, he bought a 35-acre apple orchard in Douglas, just outside Fredericton and called the property Happy Apple Acres and successfully grew and sold apples. In retirement Angus pursued his life-long interest in history and published seven books: Canadians on Radar in South East Asia 1941-1945 in 1998, The McCurdys of Clifton/Old Barns Nova Scotia in 2008, James and Elizabeth (Riddell) Hamilton: Their Ancestors, Their Times and Their Descendants in 2016, Samuel and Nancy (Cameron) McClure: Their Lineage, Life and Legacy in 2010; For King and Country: The Memoirs of a Radar Mechanic in the RCAF/RAF during World War II in 2019; My First Nineteen: 1922-1941 in 2020; and My Last Seventy-Seven: 1945-2022. Hamilton died 15 April 2023.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton, Douglas