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Marriage, parents, responsibilities by Anna Bella Solomon
Role of women, handicrafts, making clothes by Anna Bella Solomon
Hannah Loon recalls several childhood memories and traumas. For example, while taking care of her older sister's children, she witnessed her friend's mother set herself on fire and had to protect the children ...
... signs of himself behind, and is found at the end of the land by two men. One asks to live long enough to see that his children can support themselves and Weesakechahk grants him this, the other asks ...
This story teaches children not to laugh at anyone who is in trouble. There were once two families living together during winter who lived mostly on hunting rabbits. One day, one of the hunters came ...
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: 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: 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 ...
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 ...
