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Residential school administration by Anna Bella Solomon
Residential school, livestock, garden by Anna Bella Solomon
Description: A Catholic priest with a Cree boy and girl.
Tags Summer, Children, Boy, Girl, European, Missionaries & Children, Moose, Factory
... 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: Moose Factory Catholic priest, Father Bilodeau and his motorbike.
Tags Summer, Man, Motorcycle, Missionaries, Modern Houses, Moose Factory
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 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: 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: 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: In many communities, the relationship between church and people was strong. Many missionaries visited Elderly people in their homes to give communion and prayers. Likewise, many Elderly ...
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: The church missionaries baptized and confirmed many Cree people in Moose Factory, ON. Christianity played an important role in everyone's life in James Bay.
Tags Boy, Girl, Missionaries ...
