- Date
- 1969-02
- Kind
- Occurrence
- Where
- Saint James Harbor
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- fishingtransportationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In February 1969, Charlie Martin and his crew cut and hauled more than 200 large blocks of ice from Beaver Island harbor. They packed the blocks in sawdust to preserve ice for packing summer whitefish catches.
Evidence and limits
The notice does not provide a complete crew list, measured ice volume, or later use record.
Sources
- Reports Charlie Martin and his crew cutting and hauling more than 200 large harbor-ice blocks and packing them in sawdust to preserve ice for whitefish catches; it does not provide a complete crew list, measured ice volume, or later use record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published ice-cutting report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-02_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Charlie Martin's crew cuts harbor ice for summer whitefish packing, 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ice-cutting-1969/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1969, “Ice Cutting.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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