Name: Clementine McCauley’s 1901 Squaw Island illness retrospective published, 1976
Start: 1901-06
End: 1901-06
Location: Squaw Island Light Station

Event

Dates: 1901-06 – circa 1901-10
Kind: Publication
Where: Squaw Island Light Station
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcaremaritimeheritagecommunicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

The March 1976 Beaver Beacon reprints Clementine McCauley’s retrospective account of a 1901 whooping-cough illness at the Squaw Island Light Station, including travel to Beaver Island for medical help and a High Island log delivery.

Evidence and limits

This is a later first-person retrospective, not a contemporaneous medical, light-station, contract, or complete community-history record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, March 1976, “From the Mail Bag,” Clementine McCauley retrospective.
Reprints Clementine McCauley’s account of her 1901 birth, a whooping-cough epidemic, her parents’ move to Squaw Island Light Station, a doctor’s boat trip from Beaver Island, her grandmother’s fall, and High Island log delivery. The story is retrospective testimony; it does not provide a contemporaneous medical, light-station, contract, or Indigenous-community record. 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, March 1976, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue confirms the signed Mail Bag retrospective.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Clementine McCauley’s 1901 Squaw Island illness retrospective published, 1976”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/clementine-mccauley-1901-squaw-island-epidemic-retrospective-1976/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1976, “From the Mail Bag,” Clementine McCauley retrospective. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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