Henry Forbes Angus (April 19, 1891 – September 17, 1991) was a

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lawyer and academic.

Biography

Born in

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, Angus received a

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from

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in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a

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from

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in 1914. He was awarded the

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. He fought in

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during

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. After the war, he received a

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from Oxford University. Returning to British Columbia, he was called to the Bar. In 1919, he became an assistant professor of economics in the political science and sociology faculty at the

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and later became professor and head of the department. He was the first fully qualified lawyer to serve on the full-time teaching staff. From 1948 until his retirement in 1956, he was the first Dean of Graduate Studies. From 1937 to 1940, he was a member of the Royal Commission of Dominion–Provincial Relations. From 1949 to 1951, he was a member of the Royal Commission of Transportation. During World War II, from 1941 to 1945, he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for External Affairs. He was one of the few public voices to oppose the

Japanese Canadian internment From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and Internment, incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority we ...

. In 1955, he was appointed chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of British Columbia. In 1965, he was chairman of the British Columbia Commission of inquiry into redefinition of Electoral Districts ("The Provincial Redistribution Commission"). From 1951 to 1952, he was the president of the

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. In 1971, he was made an officer of the

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. In 1956, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws,

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, from the University of British Columbia. The Henry Angus Building at the

is named in his honour.

References

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