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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 ...
Description: A railway car being pulled by sled dogs in the summer. Most likely used for travel between Cochrane and Moosonee.
Tags Summer, Man, Groups of People, European, Railway Sled Dogs, Mooson ...
Description: Men sawing logs in the background as one man in the foreground chops at a tree to remove it for building material.
Tags Winter, Cutting Wood, Man, Groups of People, European
Description: Men working with logs either squaring or stripping the bark off by axe to be further sawed into straight boards used in construction of buildings and houses.
Tags Summer, logging, Man, European ...
Description: Men in the river moving logs to be used in making construction material for buildings and houses.
Tags Summer, logging, Man, Groups of People, European
... discipline and respect for the missionaries, many Christian missions would not have survived or developed to extent that they did.
Tags Summer, Construction, Tikinagans, Man, Groups of People, European ...
Description: A worker with a hand saw cutting boards for the construction of a building in the background. In the early days, all cutting of boards was done by hand.
Tags Summer, Construction, Man, European ...
Description: A fire destroys what appears to be the Catholic school or residence in Fort Albany during the 1900s.
Tags Man, European, Fire
Description: A young girl in residential school, likely in Fort Albany, eats fry bread.
Tags Girl, Children, European
Description: An adult and young boy play checkers on a board beside a teepee. Checkers was a popular game played by all Crees on the coastal communities.
Tags Man, Children, European, Teepee
Description: A Cree man sands down an object using an electric sanding stone. Many Cree learned construction skills and shop skills through the early, mid-1900s and later working with missions and Indian ...
Description: Cree men working around a construction site. Due to the isolation of communities in the north, many contraptions were modified to help with lifting material, cutting logs and other tasks. ...
Description: A man operating a mechanical saw used to make boards and planks for building material.
Tags Summer, Construction, Man, European
Description: A man with a cow with harness pulling a cart full of wood used in the missions for fire wood and cooking. In the background, other cows follow and cross a small bridge.
Tags Summer, Farming, ...
Description: A Cree man with two cows used for mission farm work such as hauling logs, freight, and other goods as well as tilling the soil. Many Cree learned how to bale hay, feed cows and care for the ...
Description: The Catholic Missions employed farm animals such as cows for work and many Cree residential students who had never seen these strange animals before eventually became accustomed to cows and ...
