Robert Morgan Young was born circa 1918 in Saskatchewan Landing, Saskatchewan, the son of Richard Adrian and Margaret Ann (Dimock) Young. He served with the Canadian military as an airman during the Second World War and was stationed at Mount Allison University. He lived in the 2nd Men’s Residence which was destroyed by fire on 16 December 1941. He was able to escape with his life and his camera. While living in Sackville he met his wife, Geraldine Main Ward (1919-), who was the daughter of William Walter Ward (1884-1964) and Eva Grace Main (1885-). They were married on 9 February 1943. He subsequently worked as a buyer for CIL and as a business teacher in Toronto and Niagara Falls. He ended his career as the head of the Commercial Department at Westlane Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He died in June of 1980.

The Rev. George Muller Young (1867-1963) was born in Richibucto, Kent County, New Brunswick, the son of David Young and Elizabeth Lawson Young. He married Linda B. McLeod of Saint John, New Brunswick in 1894. He and his wife had eight children. After graduating from Mount Allison University at Sackville, N. B., Young was ordained a Methodist minister in 1892 and spent the next 46 years in Methodist and United Church of Canada pulpits in the three Maritime provinces. In New Brunswick he served in St. Stephen, St. Andrews, Saint John, Chatham and Fredericton.

George Young was a member of the joint union committee which brought the United Church of Canada into being. For several years he was a member of the Board of Regents of Mount Allison University. He retired in 1938 and spent the last 25 years of his life in Fredericton. He was minister emeritus of Wilmot United Church in Fredericton and an amateur ornithologist.

Members of the RCAF detachment of trainees stayed at Mount Allison University for instruction in radio mechanics, February to June 1942. This was the fourth training program held at Mount Allison since May 1941 and was designed to provide a background in physics, and, in particular, radio and electrical theory. The instruction was under the direction of Professor Donald MacGregor, Dr. Dean P. Crawford, and Dr. W.H. McEwen of Mount Allison staff; Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Laporte of the CBC staff; and Donald Anderson and Robert LeLacheur, students specializing in Physics.

The 30 trainees and two officers were housed with several male students and faculty in Allison Lodge, the Ford Hotel building, W. Main St., formerly occupied as a ladies’ residence. The University Residence, which had housed the former trainees had burned just weeks before their arrival.

Alfred Cliff Yerxa was born on March 15, 1902 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, to parents Elijah Burpee Yerxa (1868-1932), a grocery merchant from Fredericton, and Emma Rose Maxwell (1874-1954) of Petitcodiac. Elijah and Emma married in 1898 in Fredericton. Emma’s parents were named James Yerxa and Letitia Kane, and Elijah’s parents were named Elijah M. and Harriet S. Yerxa. Emma and Elijah also had two other children named Harold (b. 1900) and Edith (b. 1911).
On September 5, 1928, Alfred Yerxa married a woman named Effie Barker Keirstead (1903-1992) in Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County. Effie was born in Woodstock, N.B., to parents Hattie E.S. Barker of Sheffield, Sunbury County, and Dr. Perley T. Keirstead of Steadholm, Kings County (1859-1940). Sometime after Effie was born, the Keirstead family moved to 241 Aberdeen St. in Fredericton. Dr. Keirstead got his medical education at Dartmouth Medical College in New York in 1883 and retired in 1917. His parents’ names were William and Mary Keirstead.
Hattie Barker was the daughter of Whitehead Pritchard Barker (d. 1894), who was the son of Enoch Bishop and brother of Sir Frederic Eustace Barker (1883-1915). Sir Frederic was Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. Hattie’s mother was Isabella Harrison, sister of Honourable Archibald Harrison, C.B. Harrison and J and W.F. Harrison of Saint John.
An article in the Saint John Progress (June 28 1888) indicates that James Harrison and his brother Charles emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, to South Carolina in 1767. Also, according to the book titled Prominent People of New Brunswick,

Isobel Yeomans is the wife of the late Colby Yeomans, whose uncle, Irvine Yeomans, was the Sergeant Major of A Squadron of the 8th Canadian Hussars. Her husband Colby was a member of the Association of 8th Canadian Hussars. He served 32 years in various regiments and in varied geographic locations with the Canadian Forces and the United Nations.

Arnold Frederick Yeomans

William Wyton (16 March 1907 – Apr 1999) emigrated to Canada from England in 1920 and was placed with a family at Taymouth, NB. Here he married and raised a family.

Mr. Wyton was born on 16 March 1907 in Warwickshire, England. He arrived in Canada in May 1920 as a Home Child and took up residence with John and Ethel MacBean in Taymouth. The British Child Emigration Movement occurred between 1869 and the 1930s when over a 100,000 children were sent to Canada from the British Isles. Called Home Boys and Home Girls, they were sent by churches and philanthropic organizations who wanted to give orphaned, abandoned and impoverished children a better life in rural Canada. They arrived on ships and were sent to a ‘Home’ and then to farms where they were used for farm labour and domestic help.

In the 1921 census, the MacBean household in Taymouth included John (84 years) Barbara (82 years), John H. (48 years), Ethel (32 years) and William Wyton (14 years). The MacBeans were descendant of Loyalist Angus MacBean who served with the 42nd Regiment and settled on the Nashwaak. John H. and Ethel did not have any children and Mr. Wyton eventually inherited their farm.

Mr. Wyton married Nellie Moran on 14 May 1930 and they would have five daughters and two sons. Nellie was the daughter of Ernest Moran and Hazel Gallagher. Mr. Moran was a Home Child who arrived in Canada in the 1890’s. William Wyton died on 5 April 1999 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Thomas Wyer was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1789, a son of Loyalists Thomas Wyer and Mary Pote from Falmouth, Maine. He married Sarah Tompkins in 1808. He had four children: Thomas, Joanna, Elizabeth Margaret Shidon, and Susan.

Thomas Wyer was a member of the Legislative Council, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas, a director of the Charlotte County Bank, Commissioner of Wrecks, and a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Battalion Charlotte County Militia. He was a business partner of Robert Pagan. He died in St. Andrews in 1848.

Sources: Biographical Review, Province of New Brunswick, 1900; Loyalists to Canada, 1992

Mathilda (Tillie) Wry was born on 18 December 1864 to Isaac and Mary (Fields) Wry and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick. She was engaged to a postmaster from Great Village, Nova Scotia named George who drowned at sea. Tillie never remarried, became a seamstress as a means of income and lived with her sister Mame (Mary Elsie) in a house that was built by their brother John Willard Wry. Mathilda Wry died 12 July 1932.