This large brick church was named after Rev. George Young, the missionary who brought Methodism to the prairies in 1868. As the first of the circuit preachers, he saw the establishment of the mother church, Grace Methodist.
Young Methodist Church started as a Sunday School in the home of Richard Breen where services began in 1891.
In 1906, due to increasing development of the west end, architect James Chisholm, and his son Colin Campbell, were commissioned to build a larger brick church in two stages. It became Chisholm¹s most important church in the Romanesque Revival style. The centralized form, based on Roman temple plans, was common throughout North America between 1840 and 1900 for Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches.
In 1987 the central section of the church was destroyed by fire. When rebuilt in 1993 the bell tower that had survived was incorporated into the new design.