2*4 Johnnie MacEachern Johnnie MacEachern spent much of his life in . Like his brother Everett*, he went out on a harvest excursion in his youth and worked for a few years on the construction of the railroad there. One of eight children born to Charles MacEachern and Jane Panton of Garfield, Johnnie married Pownal native Charlotte Drake on Prince Edward Island in 1936. The family moved to British Columbia some years later. Their two sons, Ian and Allison, both live in British Columbia . Johnnie resided alone after the death of his wife in 1977. Iwas born in Garfield, in the woods behind a tree up in Garfield there one time. In July, 1904. And I lived there till I was 18 or 19,1 guess, and then I went to Saskatchewan on the harvest excursion in 1923. And I worked out there at the harvest and then I went to work on the CNR round the Prairie for seven years. Came back to the Island again; lived here for quite a while, 20 years or so, and went back again. Back and forth to the Prairie for a spell. Then I went to B.C . in 1964 - 16 years ago - and I been there ever since. Work in the West We went out on the CPR, I guess, to Winnipeg, and then went up beyond [there] to Moose Jaw, and up on the CPR again to Bon Accord [Alberta], and then worked on the harvest there. Well, the first night we were there, we slept in a barn. A fella, Percy MacKenzie , was with me, and he went out the year before. We went out four miles out of town on a road; got there about 11 o'clock at night, and went up in the barn and slept all night. Johnnie MacEachern 213