Rev. George Young of United Empire Loyalist descent was born in the County of Prince Edward, Ontario on December 31, 1821. He became an itinerant Methodist preacher in 1842, and as such filled appointments in many parts of Upper Canada.

Proceeding to Winnipeg in 1868, he became Superintendent of Missions there, and was 1st President of the Manitoba and North West Conference. He was there throughout the Reil Rebellion, 1869-1870, and attended Thomas Scott, who was executed by Reil, in his last moments.

Owing to ill health he resigned his position in Manitoba in 1884, and then sustained a superannuated relation.

He published a volume entitled: "Manitoba Memories, being Leaves from my Life in the Prairie Provinces, 1868-1884" (1897).

In 1906 he was living at 348 Victoria St., Toronto

"When the Rev. George Young came to the Settlement to take charge of the Methodist cause in Red River, the Hudson's Bay Comapny presented him with a valuable piece of land on which to build a church and manse; yet in the face of all this, we have read and heard of the Company as a monster of oppression and even cruelty." ...from the Creation of Manitoba