Beaver Island/Iles du Castor

Author(s): Edward J. Wahla

Year: 2014

Summary

Thirty-five miles northeast of Charlevoix in Lake Michigan lies a pleasant archipelago, "The Beavers". They were considered an outlying part of old Michillimackinac by the early French and seem to have been a haven for canoe Indians of the past who have left their mark in the form of low mounds and numerous stone-age relics scattered about the islands to be plowed up by farmers or gardeners. Irish today, a Mormon colony yesterday, a Chippewa garden in the past and a refuge for stone-age people before them, that is the history of the Beavers in a nutshell.

Cite this Record

Beaver Island/Iles du Castor. Edward J. Wahla. 2014 ( tDAR id: 393052) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8T154KB

Keywords

Culture
Chippewa • Euroamerican • French • Historic • Historic Native American • Irish • Mormon

Site Name
Beaver Island

Investigation Types
Ethnohistoric Research • Historic Background Research

General
European Immigrants • European Settlement • Native American Relations • Native American Settlement • Resource Base

Geographic Keywords
Beaver Island • Michigan (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Historic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1675 to 1850

Spatial Coverage

min long: -85.875; min lat: 45.499 ; max long: -85.254; max lat: 45.879 ;

Notes

Administration Note: This resource is a pre-print which has no known publication date or publisher.

Administration Note: A digital copy of this document has been made available in tDAR thanks to the assistance of Edward J Wahla's daughter, Marianne Holt, and his grandson, Jerome Wahla.

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This resource is a pre-print which has no known publication date or publisher. A digital copy of this document has been made available in tDAR thanks to the assistance of Edward J Wahla's daughter, Marianne Holt, and his grandson, Jerome Wahla.