Name: Beaver Island fishermen break the harbor ice to begin the spring season, 2007
Start: 2007-03-24
End: 2007-03-24
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2007-03-24
Kind: Occurrence
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingmaritimeweathertransportationcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On March 24, 2007, James Kenwabikise and Skip Duhamel used a traditional ice-breaking technique to open a channel from Beaver Island’s harbor for the fishing season. The article also recalls earlier Coast Guard ice-breaking and describes a near-tip during the attempt.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper narrative and photograph caption, not a navigation or ice thickness log.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

"What a Difference a Day Makes," Beaver Beacon, April 2007.
Reports James Kenwabikise and Skip Duhamel ramming a fishing boat through harbor ice on March 24, with the harbor open afterward. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2007, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the ice-breaking report and photographs.
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Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island fishermen break the harbor ice to begin the spring season, 2007”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-harbor-ice-breaking-fishing-season-2007/, accessed [date], citing "What a Difference a Day Makes," Beaver Beacon, April 2007. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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