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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 ...
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: Two women walk the dirt roads of downtown Moosonee.
Tags Fall, Woman, European, Village, Modern Houses, 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: A Cree woman and non-Cree, perhaps sharing bannock with each other.
Tags Summer, Farming, Woman, European, Moosonee
Description: A group of Cree adults and children during the early 1900s. The woman wears a traditional shawl worn by Cree women during this early period.
Tags Family, European, Moosonee
Description: A Cree family at their winter teepee camp. A shove pipe can be seen at the top of the teepee. The woman and the girls wear the traditional shawl wrapped around their heads. A baby is secured ...
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, ...
Description: A winter parade float during a Christmas proceeding down main street in downtown Moosonee.
Tags Winter, Children, European, Modern Houses, Moosonee
... Church missions. Cree men were an important source of labour, reliability and knowledge when traveling the James Bay and its tributaries.
Tags Summer, Man, European, Sailboat, Canoe, Missionaries, M ...
Description: An earlier 1940s version of the snowmobile on the Moose River at Moosonee and Moose Factory.
Tags Winter, Man, European, Snowmobile, Moosonee
Description: Southern government politicians making a visit to Moose Factory in the 1970s. Standing with them is Moose Factory Cree Andrew Faries, second from the right.
Tags Summer, Man, European, ...
Description: A loader pulling a parade float with the traditional Shaaptwaan (long teepee-like structure) constructed on it that was used for cooking and could hold up to two to three families.
Tags Winter, ...
Description: A float plane anchored by the shore to either take on or unload passengers or goods.
Tags Summer, Man, Woman, European, Plane, Moosonee
Description: A pilot or missionary in front of a float plane. The introduction of float planes became an easier, faster method of traveling in the James Bay coastal communities during the 1950s.
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Description: Two hunters or trappers on snowshoes pulling a traditional toboggan. Trappers used toboggans to transport the animal resources they trapped back to the camp such as beaver, marten, fox and ...
Description: Sled dogs taking a rest with two people.
Tags Winter, Man, Woman, European, Dog Sleigh, Moosonee
Description: A Christmas parade in downtown Moosonee.
Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, Traditional, Celebrations, Moosonee
Description: A summer scene in Moosonee. Many Crees of the Moosonee and Moose Factory area owned freighter canoes to ferry southern tourists and community members between both communities. The summer ...
