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Summary
Daniel Archie LaFreniere was named for 2024 Beaver Island Irish American Hall of Fame recognition in the Business & Industry category, announced in the August 2024 Northern Islander ahead of an induction ceremony held during the Emerald Isle Irish Féile on September 7, 2024. A separate October 2024 obituary for a fellow inductee corroborates that the ceremony proceeded as scheduled, though it does not discuss this induction specifically.
Evidence and limits
The announcement is advance notice, not a report of the completed ceremony, and gives no biography beyond the award category. It is not clear from the sources read for this article whether this is the same Daniel Archie “Archie” LaFreniere (1912–1996) profiled at Archie Lafreniere, honored many years posthumously for founding island tourism businesses, or a living namesake — a son or grandson also active in island commerce. The announcement explicitly marks a different 2024 inductee, Patrick Bonner (1882–1973), as posthumous but does not use that word for this inductee, which is suggestive but not conclusive either way.
Open questions
- Is this the same Daniel Archie LaFreniere (1912–1996) as Archie Lafreniere, or a living namesake?
- What final Hall roster or biography, if published, documents the completed induction and its stated basis?
See also
Sources
- Pre-event announcement names Daniel Archie LaFreniere for the Beaver Island Irish American Hall of Fame, Class of 2024, category Business & Industry, with induction set for a ceremony on Beaver Island September 7, 2024 during the Emerald Isle Irish Féile. Unlike its explicit note that fellow inductee Patrick Bonner (1882–1973) would be inducted "posthumously," the announcement does not mark this inductee as deceased. It does not independently verify the completed induction or provide a biography.
- Reports, of a different 2024 Hall of Fame co-inductee, that "Rodney was being inducted into Beaver Island Irish American Hall of Fame," corroborating that the September 7, 2024 ceremony went forward as announced. It does not discuss LaFreniere's induction specifically.
Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Daniel Archie LaFreniere”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/daniel-archie-lafreniere/, accessed [date], citing Northern Islander, August 2024, “BI Irish Heritage Group Announces Irish Hall of Fame.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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