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Fortune Bay Expedition Team explores Garden Island history and trails

Also Fortune Bay Expedition Team Garden Island expedition 2012

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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Date2012-08
WithinGarden Island
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Garden IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
2012-08
Kind
Observation
Where
Garden Island
Eras
Modern era
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historyheritageconservationmaritimecommunity
Within
Garden Island

Summary

The September 2012 Beaver Beacon reports a Fortune Bay expedition documenting Garden Island history, trails, and cultural sites.

Evidence limits

This record preserves the September issue’s account and does not extend it beyond the evidence described in the source.

Open questions

  • Did the Fortune Bay Expedition Team publish a fuller report, map, or photographs of Garden Island beyond the September 2012 Beacon summary?
  • Which trails and survey markers did the expedition document, and do their locations match any GPS track or OSM way in the archive?

If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2012, "Expedition to Garden: Pirates of the Archipelago II."
    Reports the expedition''s survey of historic features, Anishinaabeg burial grounds, research cabins, trails, survey markers, and the former Success post office site. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2012-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held September issue scan confirms this source thread.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2012-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fortune Bay Expedition Team explores Garden Island history and trails”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-garden-island-expedition-2012/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2012, "Expedition to Garden: Pirates of the Archipelago II." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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