Star of Courage

• Awarded on: October 13, 2010
• Invested on: October 28, 2011

Angela Jeanette Stirk, S.C.
Star of Courage

On March 20, 2005, Angela Stirk courageously attempted to stop a man who was attacking her father with a knife, in their home in Coboconk, Ontario. At approximately 3 a.m., the doorbell rang, waking Ms. Stirk. She answered the door just as her father was coming down the stairs. It was a well-known neighbour who asked to speak with her father. Ms. Stirk went back to bed, but was startled shortly afterward by her father's cries for help. The man at the door had stabbed her father several times. When the victim stumbled down the basement stairs followed by the assailant, Ms. Stirk placed herself in front of her father, blocking the assailant's jabs and receiving several cuts to her hands in the struggle. Unable to depend on her strength against the much larger attacker, she pleaded with him to stop and promised not to tell anyone if he left. The assailant left the house and was later apprehended by police. Sadly, Ms. Stirk's father did not survive.