Memorable Manitobans: William Alexander Young (1870-1944)

Banker.

Born at Chatham, Ontario on 15 January 1870, son of John Pringle Young and Helen Richardson, he was educated at Portage la Prairie and, in 1886, began working in a hardware store there. After taking a course at a business college in Chatham, he returned to Portage la Prairie and resumed the hardware business for four years.

He then worked for six years at the Merchants Bank at which time he was appointed manager of the Whitewood (Saskatchewan) branch of the bank, where he spent three and a half years. Then he managed bank branches at Souris (two years), Morris, and Neepawa.

On 12 June 1894, he married Emma Hodgson (1873-1865). They had three children: Amy Helen Young (1896-1986, wife of Reginald T. Millard), Dorothy Margaret Young (1904-1972, wife of Ernest Herbert Kirkland), and William Hodgson Young (1912-1993). He was a member of the IOOF, Masons, and Presbyterian church.

He died at Coquitlam, British Columbia on 18 February 1944 and was buried in the Pacific Heritage Cemetery at Burnaby.

Sources:

The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.

“Former bank manger, William A. Young, dies,” Vancouver Sun, 28 October 1944, page 28.

Elizabeth Emma Hodgson Young, FindAGrave.

Amy Helen Young Millard, FindAGrave.

Dorothy Margaret Young Kirkland, FindAGrave.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.

Page revised: 3 September 2022

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