The family surname was originally spelled as Jung, was misinterpreted as Yung upon arrival in Canada, and was eventually changed to Young after being in Canada.
The Jung family was fairly well off... they owned their own flour mill, and they also owned about 70 acres of land, with 60 houses on it, that they rented out to a nearby cotton factory (the housing was used for the workers). They were known to have many parties for their friends to come over to, and were quite a popular family.
In the 1920’s, the tax regime in Poland became so bad that they actually were starting to lose money, even with everything they owned. And, by 1925, rumblings were starting of unrest and war again. It was with these circumstances that Gustav decided to leave, and decided to leave Europe entirely, in 1925. They originally planned to move to the USA, but the US was not accepting immigrants at the time, and they decided on Canada as their 2nd choice. They left on the Baltic America line ship S. S. Lithuania on April 11, 1927 from Port Danzig, arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 23. They then went by train to Lintlaw, SK, arriving on April 27. The first night, they stayed upstairs in Redman’s Restaurant. It is also family lore that there was a dance in Lintlaw around this time, which was during the Easter holiday period, and this practice was considered barbaric by the freshly arrived Europeans. It is said that Gustav predicted God’s punishment, and Ida read her Bible and prayed for forgiveness for the Pagans who danced during the Easter period. When Gustav later saw the barren bush they were to call home, he wanted to go back to Europe, but he could not afford to do so, so they stayed. They moved to the farm on May 12, 1927, which was in the Rural Municipality of Sasman.
The people that came across on this voyage were: Gustav, Ida, son Oswald with wife Klara, and their children Ida and Arnold; their daughter Olga with her husband Viktor and their son Ludwig.
Gustav had a passion for bee-keeping even in Europe, and he took the “land of milk and honey” quote in the brochures for Canada a little too literally, and tried to make a living as a beekeeper, but there was just not enough money in that.
The LDS website has a Gustav Adolph Jung, born either November 23 or October 10, 1856 (there are multiple records, with both of these dates), christened in Hornbach, Pfalz,Bayem, Germany the same day, listed. It lists his parents as Friedrich Jung and Susanna Jacquart. Not sure if this is the same person or not.
Note, his gravestone in Margo has him being born 1856.
The immigration records for the Lithuania arriving in Halifax on April 23, 1927 lists 7 Jungs: Gustav (shows up as “Gustaw” in online search) and his wife Ida, their son Oswald (and his wife Klara, and children Arnold and Ida), and their son Ludwig (unmarried at the time).
His tombstone in Margo, SK is in German. It says “HIER RUHT IN FRIEDEN UNSERER LIEBER VATER GUSTAV JOUNG”, which translates to “Rest in peace our dear father Gustav Young”.