Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)

(From The Christian Classic Ethereal Library)

There is a very full biography written by his daughter Jennifer Brown at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Egerton Ryerson Young, a biography written while he was still alive. [The following must have been written about 1905, because Mr. Young is no longer with us. He died 5th May 1909. Ed.] Canadian Methodist Episcopalian; born at Smith's Falls, Ontario, April 7, 1840. He was educated at the Normal School of the Province of Ontario, after having taught for several years, and in 1863 entered the ministry. Four years later he was ordained, and, after being stationed at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Hamilton, Ontario, in 1867-68, was sent as a missionary to Norway House, Northwest Territory. There he worked among the Indians for five years, and in 1873 went in a similar capacity to Beren's River, Northwest Territory, where he remained three years (1873-76). In 1876 he returned to Ontario and was stationed successively at Port Perry (1876-79), Colborne (1879-82), Bowmanville (1882-85), Medford (1885-87), and St. Paul's, Brampton (1887-88). Since 1888 he has been prominent as a lecturer on work among the American Indians, and in this cause has made repeated tours of the world. He has written:

1. By Canoe and Dog Train among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians (New York, 1890);
2. Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Camp-Fires (1893);
3. Oowikapun: or, How the Gospel reached Nelson River Indians (1894);
4. Three Boys in the Wild North Land (1896);
5. On the Indian Trail: Stories of Missionary Work among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians (1897);
6. Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land (1899);
7. The Apostle of the North, James Evans (1899);
8. My Dogs in the Northland (1902);
9. Algonquin Indian Tales (1903);
10. Children of the Forest (1904);
11. Hector my Dog (Boston, 1905);
12. Battle of the Bears (1907)

The above is taken with acknowledgement from The Christian Classic Ethereal Library at Calvin College.