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Walter Beatty Young
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Civil servant.
Born in Hawthorne Lodge at Little Britain on 6 July 1880, son of Rosina Arabella Somerville (1847-1917) and David Young, he attended school at Selkirk. From 1897 to 1901, he attended the Royal Military College at Kingston, Ontario, graduating with a military engineering degree. He then returned to Winnipeg to work for a land-survey company owned by Charles Clifton Chataway. In March 1904, he became a member of the Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors. In March 1910, he was appointed Examiner of Surveys at the Winnipeg Land Titles Office, a position he held until retirement in 1950. He served as President of the Association of Manitoba Land Surveyors (1917-1918).
On 10 July 1907, he married Frances Mary Blake Flett (1885-1972) at Vancouver, British Columbia. Their seven children were David Young (1908-1996), Kay Young (1911-1996), Eileen Young Barber (1914-1995), Hume Young (1919-2010), Frances Young Jones (1924-2000), Bruce Young (1925-2010), and Joan Young Wilson (1927-2007). The family lived at 175 Arlington Street for thirty years.
He died at Winnipeg on 16 March 1965 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
See also:
My Pioneer Canadian Family by Donald Walter Young, 2023.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“40 years land examiner, senior civil servant rests,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 January 1951. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 166]
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 March 1965, page 42.
We thank Doug Pratt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden, Donald Young, and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 February 2026
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