Then, following his father steps, he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church In 1867, the year of the Canadian Confederation, he was ordained on 9 June, and married to Elizabeth Bingham on 25 December.

[7] In the summer of 1876, leaving the mission one year earlier than the three-years term,[8] the Youngs moved back to Ontario, in Port Perry.

[10] In May 1887, Mark Guy Pearse, a well-known Methodist preacher, lecturer, and author, visited Young at Meaford, Ontario.

Pearse's objective, as he wrote in By canoe and dog-train's introduction, is "renewing the popular interest in foreign missionary enterprise".

[12] In 1888, Young gave lectures about mission life in the East of United States, British Isles and important cities in North America.