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Ski & Shore merges with Vacation Properties Network on Beaver Island, 1987

Also Ski & Shore Vacation Properties Network merger · Vacation Properties Network Beaver Island office

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TypeEvent
Date1987-04
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
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Event
Date
1987-04
Kind
Business
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
commercetourismtechnologycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The April 1987 Beaver Beacon announced that Ski & Shore Real Estate had merged with Vacation Properties Network. The Beaver Island office continued with Roy Elsworth, Karl Heller, and Laurie McDonough handling local real-estate and rental-management work.

Evidence limits

This is a business announcement, not a corporate filing, ownership record, transaction ledger, or complete office history.

Sources

  1. Announces the merger, describes Vacation Properties Network's real-estate network and computer-linked resource centers, and says the Beaver Island branch office will continue under Roy Elsworth, Karl Heller, and Laurie McDonough for rental management. It is a business announcement, not a corporate filing, ownership record, transaction ledger, or complete office history. 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 · 1987-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page April issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the real-estate business announcement.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1987-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Ski & Shore merges with Vacation Properties Network on Beaver Island, 1987”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ski-shore-vacation-properties-network-merger-1987/, accessed [date], citing “Ski & Shore Real Estate Merges with Vacation Properties Network,” Beaver Beacon, April 1987. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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