He never married, despite a few flings with local girls, and a tempestuous relationship with Liza Queripel of Pleinmont.
He left the island only once, to travel to Jersey to watch the Muratti Vase, a football match.
For most of his life he was a grower and fisherman, although he also served in the North regiment of the Royal Guernsey Militia (though not outside the island) and did some jobbing work for the States of Guernsey in the latter part of his life.
Guernsey is a microcosm of the world as Dublin is to James Joyce and Dorset is to Thomas Hardy.
After a life fraught with difficulties and full of moving episodes, Ebenezer dies happy, bequeathing his pot of gold and autobiography (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page) to the young artist he befriends, after an incident in which the latter smashed his greenhouse.