Eighth Generation (Continued)
On 24 Jan 1934 Hope Evelyn married
Lloyd Alton Heisler (7851) , son of
2792. William Henry Heisler &
Mary Ellen Langille, in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.
9,8 Born in Oct 1906 in Rouse's Island, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.55 Lloyd Alton died in Lunenburg, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, on 3 Dec 1997; he was 91.43 Occupation: Fisherman.
He was a farmer and an inshore and dory fisherman. He was a crew member of the schooner Bluenose and had raced and fished with her between 1928-1938. During the 1920s he started rowing in the Lunenburg double-dory races. In 1952, he and his partner, the late Russell Langille of Oakland, Nova Scotia, rowed in the first International Dory Race which was held between teams from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Gloucester, Massachusetts, never losing a race. In October of 1982, they were inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame.43