18 George Young George Young was as roguish at 100 as he said he was at 20. The lone survivor of eight children born to John Young and Catherine Gay of Wood Islands , George was noted in the community for his love of horses. He spent most of his life farming and driving the mail on his farm, near Belle River . George spent his last years in the Manor in Montague. His wife Kate Cantelo , now lives in the Manor. Their son and four daughters live on the Island. I've travelled on horses most of my life; never had a car. There was lots of horses here. There was lots of horses after the cars come. The cars was just a kind of a thing to go hoot to town fast and around fast. But they all had working horses until a number of years ago. They got tractors then, you see, and done away with the horses. There's lots of them wouldn't be at the poor house today if they'd 'ave had horses. I'd say I'd a been dead years ago if I'd 'ave had a car because I used to drive rough; tip the wagons, tip the horses. Seeing the Girls I went everywhere to see the girls! Wood Islands and Belle River and Flat River and Eldon and Bellevue , Grandview and Orwell, Little Sands . And I'm still here. I'll be 90 in August. I liked them days. I'd go in the evening and any time before sunrise in the morning I could come home you know. I didn't have a special time to be home, not like the girls did. The old women and the old men [would say] "You be home at nine o'clock." I'd say to the girl after we'd leave the house, "Chase them. We'll come back when we're ready." They wouldn't get mad at the girls. Naw. What would they get mad over? If they were George Young 165