2*5 Everett MacEachern While Everett MacEachern 's younger brother Johnnie* was still at home on the farm, Everett was fighting overseas in the First World War. But they moved to within a few years of one another, for work on the harvests and on the railway. Unlike Johnnie, however, Everett never again returned to the Island to live. He and his wife Dorothy raised nine children in Saskatchewan and Alberta and he spent his last years at the home of his daughter and son- in-law, Mae and Norman Hewitt, of Edmonton. 1 remember [the Garfield races] all right. I got into one fight there but that's about all. There was lots of fights at everything that happened then. But I was pretty young when it first opened and then I was only home for the one race or maybe two when I came back after the war. But, oh, it was quite a big deal. Everyone was all het up waiting for their big races, and all had their favourite horses.... They used to come from all over. I don't think they come from the mainland but they come from all over the Island.... They used to bring [the horses] down the night before or the day before because they had to come under their own power. They didn't truck them then. They'd have to have a little rest and we'd have to have some black oats for to feed them. It wasn't any better than any other oats but, anyhow, they fed their race horses black oats. Everett MacEachern 221