Name: First winter fish shanty appears in Saint James Bay, 1962
Start: 1962-01-01
End: 1962-01-01
Location: Saint James Harbor

First winter fish shanty appears in Saint James Bay, 1962

Also January 1962 Beaver Island ice-fishing shanty

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago

Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

TypeEvent

Date1962-01-01

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1962-01-01
Kind: Construction
Where: Saint James Harbor
Participants: Owen “Chappie” Chapman (participant)
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingenvironmentcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Owen Chapman took the first reported fish shanty onto the bay on New Year’s Day 1962.

Evidence and limits

The notice records the shanty’s appearance, not a catch, ice-safety assessment, or complete fishing season.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 1962, “Sporting News.”
Reports Owen Chapman taking the first fish shanty onto the bay on New Year’s Day and says islanders hoped for a perch fry. It does not provide catch results, ice measurements, or a fishing log.
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Beaver Beacon, January 1962, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “First winter fish shanty appears in Saint James Bay, 1962”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-first-fish-shanty-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1962, “Sporting News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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