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Major-General '''Hugh Andrew Young''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|DSO|CBE}} (3 April 1898 – 21 January 1982) was a Canadian military officer and civil servant who served as the [[commissioner of the Northwest Territories]] from 1950 to 1953.<ref name="obit">{{cite news |title=Tribute to 'The General' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/463006485/?terms=Hugh%2BA.%2BYoung |accessdate=21 January 2020 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |location=[[Ottawa, Ontario]] |page=9 |url-access=subscription|authorlink=David James Walker|last=Walker |first=Senator David J. }}</ref>

==Military career==
Young was born in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], to Andrew Young and Emma Florence Nesbitt, and was of Irish descent.<ref>''1921 Census of Canada''</ref> He graduated from the [[University of Manitoba]] became joining the military, serving in the Yukon and Arctic. Once while facing starvation in the extreme north, he boiled and ate his [[Mukluks]].  During the [[First World War]], he served with distinction with the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]].<ref name="obit"/><ref>''Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914–1918''</ref>

In the Second World War, Young became a senior staff officer at the Canadian Military Headquarters in London. From 1942 to 1943, he commanded the [[6th Canadian Infantry Brigade]]. From 1943 to 1944, he served on the general staff of [[II Canadian Corps]], before returning to command of the 6th Brigade for the rest of the war. Following the end of the war, Young oversaw the return of Canadian forces to Canada and succeeded without any stray casualties. He was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in October 1944<ref>{{London Gazette |date=17 October 1944|issue=36753 | page= 4792 |supp=y}}</ref> and, by now a major general, appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]] (CB) over a year later in June 1946,<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37599|page=2823|date=4 June 1946|supp=y}}</ref> a year after having been appointed a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (CBE).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37120|page=3034|date=8 June 1945|supp=y}}</ref>

Young retired from the army in 1947 and joined the Civil Service at the request of Prime Minister [[Louis St. Laurent]].<ref name="obit"/>

He was [[Commissioners of the Northwest Territories|Commissioner of the Northwest Territories]] from November 14, 1950, to November 15, 1953. He was [[Minister of Public Works (Canada)|Deputy Minister of Public Works]] for 10 years until 1963, serving under five different [[Ministers of Public Works]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040819052427/http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/related/province/lieutgov.asp?lang=E Lieutenant Governors and Commissioners]</ref><ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Canada_Provinces_A-O.html List of Canadian Leaders, births and deaths]</ref>

He died in Ottawa in 1982.<ref>''Ottawa, Canada, Beechwood Cemetery Registers, 1873–1990''</ref><ref name="obit"/>

==References== 
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==External links==
*[https://generals.dk/general/Young/Hugh_Andrew/Canada.html Generals of World War II]

{{Northwest Territories Heads of State}}

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