Name: Beaver Island Boat Company completes the ferry purchase, 1984
Start: 1984-06-29
End: 1984-09-01
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 1984-06-29 – 1984-09-01
Kind: Property transfer
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Boat Company
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: commercetransportationpropertyeconomycommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The new Beaver Island Boat Company completed its purchase of the island ferry operation on June 29, 1984, took control June 30, and celebrated the return of ownership to island-connected shareholders at its September 1 annual meeting.

Evidence limits

The September Beacon supplies the public account of the closing and early operation. The share count and profitability figures are not independently verified here against corporate or financial records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 1984, "Boat Company Purchase Completed - Island Celebrates!"
Reports the June 29 closing, June 30 transfer of control, $450,000 cash purchase, first profitable two months, 4,016 shares sold to 267 stockholders by August 21, and the September 1 first annual shareholders meeting. It is a newspaper account, not a corporate closing file, stock ledger, or audited financial statement. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, September 1984, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held fifteen-page September issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the purchase-completion report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Boat Company completes the ferry purchase, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-boat-company-purchase-completed-1984/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1984, "Boat Company Purchase Completed - Island Celebrates!" (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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