Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires

Egerton Ryerson Young, born at Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada April 7, 1840 had a great love and respect for the Canadian Indians. 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). He was married on December 25, 1867, in Toronto, to Elizabeth Bingham of Bradford, Ontario, and they had eight children. He also wrote:

By Canoe and Dog Train among the Cree and