[1] Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.

He came back a year later and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves, where he served as a Communications Officer until his release from the service when the war ended in 1945.

Young began to sell fiction to publications in Canada and the United States including the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.

The family's finances would vary with Young's success in selling his stories and he began taking assignments from Sports Illustrated.

[citation needed] He was also a host on Hockey Night in Canada until getting on the wrong side of Toronto Maple Leafs co-owner John W. H. Bassett.

[citation needed] In 1967, Young bought a 100-acre (0.40 km2) farm near Omemee in Cavan Township and built a house there.

Shortly after arriving in Ottawa, he got into a dispute with his paper over the publication rights to excerpts from a book he had just written with Punch Imlach.

The rights had been acquired by the Toronto Telegram, but the Globe wouldn't allow Young's writing to appear in a competing newspaper.

At the same time, Young had a falling out with the Globe over stories critical of Imlach written by Donald Ramsay and quit.

[5] Young and his wife sold the farm in the late 1980s and moved to Howth, Ireland, a suburb of North Dublin.