Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Annie's Day

In all the tiny fishing villages that snuggle in Nova Scotia's rocky coves, there is no fisherwoman quite like Mrs. Annie Lyons of Hadleyville on Chedabucto Bay. A wiry little (105 Ibs.) mother of seven, she sports a boyish bob, a man's clothes and does a man's work.

At 4 a.m. one morning last week Annie was up & about, to get breakfast for a son and daughter and Bert Hadley, for whom she keeps house. Then she got into oilskins, rubber boots and sou'wester, rowed a mile and a half through the...

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