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: Various small sailboats and boats at the dock in Moosonee in 1955. These vessels served the James Bay coastal communities and were a valuable link to goods, services and communications with ...

Description: A small sailboat anchored in the distance on a river and the men that likely worked and traveled on these sailboats to deliver goods and supplies either for the HBC, Catholic Church or Anglican ...

Description: Sailboats at wooden docks on the Moose River. Tags Summer, Sailboat, Canoe, Moosonee

Description: A young missionary on what appears to be possibly a sailboat or small schooner that were used extensively in James Bay by the missions. Tags Man, Missionaries

Description: Men load and board a low lying barge as a sailboat or schooner lies in the distance. Tags Summer, Man, Groups of People, Canoe, Sailboat, Small Vessel

Description: Two examples of the type of vessels used between Moosonee, Moose Factory, Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Attawapiskat. Here a barge and schooner lay side by side. Tags Summer, Ship, Sailb

Description: Another important water vessel used in James Bay. Here a barge transports cows to shore for use at the missions. Tags Summer, Generic, Man, Groups of People, European, Sailboat, Cow

Description: Evidence that Cree men may not have been just labourers or deck hands aboard sailboats or schooners. In this photo, a Cree man intently concentrates while steering a vessel. Tags Summer, ...

Description: Cree labourers using a boom and crane to load drums of fuel gas or diesel to be delivered to the coastal communities. Tags Summer, Generic, Man, European, Sailboat

Description: A small sailboat or schooner with a dwelling cover suggesting cooking and sleeping area for overnight anchoring while on extended trips to the communities or when bad weather impeded travel. Tags ...

Description: An unidentified person viewing a model of a schooner that likely worked the James Bay. Tags Man, European, Sailboat

Description: A non-Cree and Cree person share smiles and pose for a photo in front a schooner or sailboat. The Cree person likely worked on the vessel or assisted in repairs to it. Tags Summer, Man, ...

Description: A Cree man straddles the side of a schooner or sailboat with a float plane at the Austin Airways dock in Moosonee. Not much is known to what extent Cree men became "sailors" and learned the ...

Description: A example of using horse power to pull a schooner or sailboat on logs up onto dry land before the winter freeze up of the rivers. Here the horse is tethered to a turn stall attached to the ...

Description: A sailboat or schooner being pulled ashore by a tractor in Moosonee. Moosonee was the main depot for goods, material and other items arriving by train to be transferred to sailboat, schooner ...

Description: A sailboat being pulled out of the water either for repairs or for the impending winter freeze up of the Moose River at Moosonee. Tags Fall, Generic, Man, European, Tractor, Sailboat

Description: A sailboat during winter being hauled over the ice by a tractor as a snowmobiler looks on. Sailboats, schooners and tugboats were often stored at Moosonee on land for the winter months. Tags ...

Description: A schooner onshore as men place a plank on its side to unload or load goods into it. Tags Summer, Generic, Man, Groups of People, European, Sailboat

Description: A captain, skipper or schooner boss looks on while workers move a schooner to shore using logs as rollers. TAGS Summer, Generic, Man, Groups of People, European, Sailboat