When Donald Angus Crites was born on 14 March 1861, in Ontario, Canada, his father, George Michael Crites, was 24 and his mother, Catherine " Cate" Elizatbeth Eamer, was 24. He married Mary E. Hughes in 1884, in Cornwall, Stormont, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Stormont, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1938, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77.