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King Strang Club forms in the former King Strang Hotel, 1982

Also King Strang Hotel cooperative club 1982

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TypeEvent
Date1982-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
1982-09
Kind
Announcement
Where
structure/king-strang-hotel
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
heritagepropertyeconomycommunitymaritimecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The September 1982 Beacon profiled the new King Strang Club in the former King Strang Hotel: a 21-member room-ownership club that had rewired the building, added bathrooms and showers, cleared the beach, and built a dock.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper profile and reported history, not a deed, membership ledger, building survey, or complete ownership chain.

Sources

  1. Profiles a 21-member room-ownership club that bought the former King Strang Hotel, with members contributing skills and improvements including rewiring, additional showers and bathrooms, beach clearing, and a dock. The article recounts the building’s reported 1901 construction, 1903 opening as the Beaver Hotel, later owners, and its renaming as the King Strang Club. It is a newspaper profile and reported history, not a deed, membership ledger, building survey, or complete ownership chain. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1982-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held thirteen-page September issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the King Strang Club profile.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1982-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “King Strang Club forms in the former King Strang Hotel, 1982”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-king-strang-club-1982/, accessed [date], citing “The King Strang Club,” by Jacqueline LaFreniere, Beaver Beacon, September 1982. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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