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For other uses, see Scott Young (disambiguation). Scott Young (1918–2005 was a Canadian writer and sports journalist

Scott Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends Sports journalism is a form of Journalism that reports on Sports topics and events While the sports department within some Newspapers has been A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.

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Early life

Born in Cypress River, Manitoba, Young grew up in nearby Glenboro where his father, Percy Young, owned a drug store. Cypress River is a community in the Rural Municipality of South Cypress in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Glenboro ( is a village in Manitoba, Canada, located about 80 km southeast of the city of Brandon, in the Rural Municipality of South Cypress His mother, Jean Ferguson Paterson, had been a schoolteacher before her marriage. After his father went broke in 1926, the family moved to Winnipeg but were unable to afford to stay there. Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population His parents separated in 1930, and Young went to live with an aunt and uncle in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan for a year before moving back to Winnipeg to live with his mother. Prince Albert is the third-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. He left high school at 16 and began working for a tobacco wholesaler.

Young began writing while in his teens, submitting stories to various publications, most of which were rejected. At the age of 18, in 1936, he was hired as a copyboy at the Winnipeg Free Press and was soon made sports reporter. The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily Broadsheet Newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He met Edna "Rassy" Ragland in 1937, and the two were married in 1940. Edna "Rassy" Ragland was a Canadian television personality best known as a panelist on the Canadian version of Twenty Questions in the early

Moves to Toronto

Unable to get a raise at the Free Press, Young moved to Toronto in 1941, covering news and sports for the Canadian Press news agency. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario The Canadian Press (often abbreviated as CP) is Canada 's national News agency established in 1917 as a vehicle to permit Canadian newspapers of the day His first son, Bob Young, was born in 1942 and five months later, Young was sent to England to help cover World War II for CP. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He came back a year later and joined the Royal Canadian Navy, where he served until his release from the service when the war ended in 1945. For the history of Canada's naval forces after 1968 see Canadian Forces Maritime Command The Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN) was the Young returned to CP and soon joined Maclean's magazine as an assistant editor. Maclean's is a Canadian weekly News magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics pop culture and current events His second son, Neil Young, was born in Toronto in November 1945. Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician

Young began to sell fiction to publications in Canada and the United States including the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, Collier's Weekly was an American Magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957 He quit his job at Maclean's in 1948 to write short stories full-time.

In 1949, Young bought a house in Omemee, Ontario near Peterborough. Omemee is a community within the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada, formerly known as Victoria County. Peterborough is a City on the Otonabee River in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres One of the two schools in Omemee was named after Young. The family's finances would vary with Young's success in selling his stories and he began taking assignments from Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. His first novel The Flood was published in 1956. Young moved to Pickering, Ontario and spent a year working in public relations for a jet engine company before joining The Globe and Mail as a daily columnist in 1957 and moving back to Toronto. Pickering is a City located immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada The Globe and Mail is a Canadian English language nationally distributed Newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities In 1959, Young met Astrid Read while on assignment in British Columbia and, soon after, he and his wife separated. Following Young's divorce in 1961, he and Read were married. They had a daughter, Astrid Young, in 1962. Astrid Young (born) is a Canadian singer/songwriter She is the daughter of Scott Young and Astrid Read

He was also a host on Hockey Night in Canada until getting on the wrong side of Toronto Maple Leafs co-owner John Bassett. "Leafs" and "Maple Leafs" redirect here For the former American Hockey League team see St John White Hughes Bassett, PC, OC, OOnt ( August 25, 1915 &ndash April 27, 1998) was a Canadian The Leafs threatened HNIC's sponsor and advertising agency until they agreed to fire Young.

Life on the farm

In 1967, Young bought a 100-acre (0. 40 km²) farm near Omemee in Cavan Township and built a house there. The Township of Cavan-Monaghan is located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada in Peterborough County Ontario, Canada, about twenty kilometres In 1969, he asked to be transferred to the Globe's news bureau in Ottawa. Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. 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. George "Punch" Imlach ( March 15, 1918 – December 1, 1987) was an NHL coach and general manager The rights had been acquired by the Toronto Telegram, but the Globe wouldn't allow Young's writing to appear in a competing newspaper. The Toronto Telegram (previously the Toronto Evening Telegram) was a conservative, Broadsheet afternoon daily Newspaper He quit the Globe and accepted a job offer from Bassett to become sports editor and columnist at the Telegram, moving back to Toronto within weeks of his move to Ottawa. Young remained at the Telegram until the paper folded in 1971. He then re-joined the Globe and Mail. Young and his second wife separated in 1976, and in the fall of 1977, he moved in with fellow Globe writer Margaret Hogan. The two married in 1980. At the same time, Young had a falling out with the Globe over stories critical of Imlach written by Donald Ramsay and quit. He worked with former Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe on Smythe's autobiography, which would be published after Smythe's death in November 1980. "Leafs" and "Maple Leafs" redirect here For the former American Hockey League team see St Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC (1 February 1895 – 18 November 1980 was a Canadian builder in the National Hockey League.

In 1988, Young received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, and was also inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. The Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award is an Award given "in recognition of distinguished members of the Newspaper profession whose words have brought honour to The Hockey Hall of Fame ( Temple de la renommée du hockey in French) is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum was established in 1985 when the first honoured members were named and plaques were erected in their honour Young and his wife sold the farm in the late 1980s and moved to the well sought after suburb of Howth, situated on the outskirts of Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. In 1990, Young received an honorary doctorate from Trent University and donated many of his papers to the university's archives. This article is about Trent University in Peterborough Ontario Canada The Youngs returned to Peterborough in 1992 and repurchased their old farm, which Young owned for the rest of his life. Scott Young Public School in Omemee was named in his honour in 1993. His autobiography, A Writer's Life, was published in 1994.

He and Margaret moved to Kingston, Ontario in 2004, where Young died the following year at the age of 87. Kingston Ontario is a Canadian city located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St

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