He collaborated to the the foundation of the short lived Société littéraire in 1830. In 1836, while studying law, he published the booklet Système de sténographie, applicable au français et à l'anglais. The following year, he is received at the bar and becomes the shorthand writer of the Parliament House of Lower Canada. He later published his chronicle Révélations du crime ou Cambray et ses complices. From 1845 to 1848, Angers is joint editor of the Revue de législation et de jurisprudence, and from 1850 to 1851, he was President of the Institut canadien de Québec. He married Louise Panet in 1853.
Between 1851 and 1860, Angers collaborated to the work Décisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada. He dies in 1860.