Description: A row of vegetable plants and a building under construction. Both the Churches and Mission school at Moose Factory had a farm, large gardens and farm animals to feed the staff and students. Tags ...

Description: A Cree woman and non-Cree, perhaps sharing bannock with each other. Tags Summer, Farming, Woman, European, Moosonee

Description: Geese decoys usually made from mud, wood or sticks to imitate a group of wavies or geese feeding on shores. Hunting blinds where hunters sit to await the arrival of wavies or geese can be ...

Description: A man with a cow with harness pulling a cart full of wood used in the missions for fire wood and cooking. In the background, other cows follow and cross a small bridge. Tags Summer, Farming, ...

Description: A Cree man with two cows used for mission farm work such as hauling logs, freight, and other goods as well as tilling the soil. Many Cree learned how to bale hay, feed cows and care for the ...

Description: The Catholic Missions employed farm animals such as cows for work and many Cree residential students who had never seen these strange animals before eventually became accustomed to cows and ...

Description: A non-Cree person in a greenhouse tending to plants or vegetable seedlings. Tags Farming, Man, European

Description: A priest or mission worker leading harnessed cows pulling a load of hay with Cree boys and Cree women dressed in traditional shawls, some with pitch forks. Tags Summer, Farming, Groups ...

Description: Two men till and work the boreal soil with a cow pulling a plough. Working the land in the northern communities was likely very difficult as the land had to be cleared, the summer was short ...