Margaret Majora Young (1855 – 1940, in Japanese: マーガレット・ヤング) was a Canadian missionary to Nagoya, Japan.
She dedicated her life to the education of women there, and laid the foundation of St. Mary's College, Nagoya.
After studying at the Hamilton Normal School, she started to work in 1890 at a public kindergarten in Elma, Ontario, where she was exposed to Friedrich Fröbel's early childhood education method and practice.
Based on this school, Ryujo Women's Junior College was established after WWII, in 1953, in Showa-ku, Nagoya, across the street from which now stands St. Matthew's,[2] the diocesan cathedral of the Chubu Diocese.
[3] In 1922, Margaret Young went back to Canada with his adopted son, Masataka Shimizu, but in 1936 she returned to Japan for permanent residence.