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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: Father Bilodeau and Catholic sisters in Moose Factory. Likely arriving from Moosonee or preparing to cross from Moose Factory to Moosonee.
Tags Summer, Woman, Groups of People, Man, Canoe, ...
Description: A small schooner used in James Bay to travel the coasts delivering supplies and ferrying passengers.
Tags Fall, Groups of People, Sailboat, Moosonee
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: 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 ...
Description: A summer scene near the hospital in Moose Factory. The building in the back was one of a number of residences for hospital personnel such as doctors and nurses who came from southern cities ...
Description: The Catholics as well as the Anglicans established churches in Moose Factory, ON. In this photo, a missionary is helping cut planks for building material. Missionaries and local men worked ...
Description: An example of life in Moose Factory most likely mid 1900s. The woman was probably gathering snow and going about her daily tasks of cooking and cleaning.
Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Groups ...
Description: A Catholic service in Moosonee in 1948. The congregation is comprised of Cree women in traditional shawls and non-Cree people. Cree adults often took part in services as lay readers and ...
Description: Catholic Priests in Moosonee in 1948 pose for a photo with many Cree people and children.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, Church, Missionaries & Children, Moosonee
Description: A rear view of the Catholic Church in Moosonee and Cree children walking in the foreground.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, Church, Moosonee
Description: A group of people gathered on the shore. Cree people often celebrated and camped near the river banks during summertime to celebrate, feast and play games after arriving from their winter ...
Description: Cree Elders, men, women and children with a priest pose for a photo. By the 1940s, the Catholic Church and religion was much incorporated into Cree life and followed by many western James ...
Description: A group of Cree people posing with a southern politician visiting Moosonee in 1947.
Tags Summer, Tikinagans, Groups of People, Children, European, Moosonee
Description: A group of men beside the train pose for a photo at the Onakawana lignite site located along the route north to Moosonee. Lignite was a resource the Ontario government contemplated removing ...
Description: Women gathered in a field in front of the local Church as two young female Cree girls eat bannock and drink tea in the foreground.
Tags Summer, Woman, Tikinagans, Children, Groups of People, ...
