Description: A non-Cree person in a greenhouse tending to plants or vegetable seedlings. Tags Farming, Man, European

Description: Young Cree women, boys and girls in front of tent. One young boy holds a bow and arrow no longer used by Cree people with the introduction of the gun. By the early 1900s, most boys owned ...

Description: Cree women repairing or using white linen or sheets possibly to be used in the Mission hospitals. The Catholic and Anglican missions also treated Cree people that were sick and in need of ...

Description: A non-Cree person working on heavy construction equipment while a Cree young man assists. Tags Construction, Man, European

Description: A Cree family traveling by canoe along the coast of James Bay. Two Cree women in traditional shawls sit in the front. Sometimes a sail was erected in the canoe using a pole and tarp to use ...

Description: Numerous Cree men, some standing as others sit, aboard a low lying barge used to transport goods and passengers. Tags Summer, Groups of People, European, Small Vessel

Description: Two non-Cree and a Cree aboard a vessel traveling the James Bay or up stream on the rivers leading to the communities. Tags Fall, Man, European, Small Vessel

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

Description: Cree men and a non-Cree in front of a schooner. These men likely worked together on the James Bay vessels traveling up and down the Cree communities. Tags Fall, Man, Groups of People, European, ...

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 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: An unidentified non-Cree on a schooner, possibly a visiting tourist, hunter or missionary on his way to northern communities. Tags Summer, Man, European, Ship

Description: A non-Cree skipper or captain of schooner that traveled James Bay with Cree workers that were very valuable as deck hands, maintenance helpers, translators and labourers for loading and unloading ...

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