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Description: A Catholic priest with a Cree boy and girl.
Tags Summer, Children, Boy, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Moose, Factory
Description: Cree children watching a movie shown by the local priests. The local priests were popular for showing movies and providing a form of entertainment that was not available to most Cree families.
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... floor. Here three babies in traditional tikinagans take part in a church service.
Tags Winter, Tikinagans, Family, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Modern Houses, Church, Christmas, Moosonee ...
Description: Cree men sitting along the banks of Moose Factory Island as they meet a government official. Sitting along the banks during the summer months, smoking, telling stories and playing checkers ...
Description: An early motorbike used by Father Bilodeau who was one of the Catholic Church priest stationed at Moose Factory in mid-1950s-70s.
Tags Spring Ice Break, Man, European, Motorcycle, Moose ...
Description: Archdeacon Thomas Vincent, a mixed blood ordained Anglican minister standing on the far left. Others in the photo are HBC and Indian Affairs officials.
Tags Groups of People, Man, European, ...
Description: A Catholic priest with a group of children. Most likely in either Moosonee or Moose Factory. Both communities had a Catholic Church.
Tags Spring Ice Break, Groups of People, Man, Woman, ...
Description: A popular form of winter transportation in the James Bay region from 1950s to 1970s. The Churches, the hospital, Indian Affairs and the RCMP all used these snowmobiles to transport people, ...
Description: As there were no roads leading north from Moosonee to Fort Albany and the other northern communities. Tractor trains were used to haul fuel, building materials and other goods to Fort Albany, ...
Description: Evidence that farm animals and old style carts were used for transportation as well as for farm work.
Tags Summer, Man, European, Carts, Moose Factory, Cow, Moose Factory
Description: The Hudson's Bay Company compound that comprised a main store and staff house that accommodated store personnel. The grounds usually were very well manicured and maintained.
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Description: In the early 1900s, horses, trucks, and motorcycles would have been mainly used by non-Cree people. Usually the missionaries, store managers or hospital personnel.
Tags Fall, Man, Children, ...
Description: An early 1900s scene of residential school children most likely from the Anglican mission school. Notice the church cross worn by the children.
Tags Summer, Children, Groups of People, ...
Description: An important mode of transportation using huskies and sleighs in Moose Factory, ON that is largely forgotten.
Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, DogSleigh, ...
Description: In Moose Factory, the missionaries entertained Cree children with movie projectors and movies that were never seen before. It was very popular amongst the local Cree population. The missionaries ...
