Walter Young was a snowshoe racer and runner from Quebec, Canada. He won the 1937 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:33:20 during unseasonably hot conditions.^[2] Young defeated the second place runner, John A. Kelley, by over six minutes.^[2]

Young later worked as a firefighter. He was a captain with the Verdun, Quebec fire department until his retirement in 1978.^[3] Upon his wife's death in 1996 he relocated to Mission, British Columbia to be with his son.^[3]