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Description: Men moving a schooner out of the water, possibly for repairs, or storing the vessel for the winter. Boats, sailboats and schooners were raised on log frames to avoid them freezing to the ...
Description: A schooner with a load of containers most likely propane tanks or oxygen tanks used for cooking or hospital supplies.
Tags Summer, Man, European, Sailboat
Description: Three non-Cree stand in front of the tractor sled train and a dome shaped canvas tent with a stove pipe protruding from the top. Stopping for the night on the open, frozen river or Bay ice ...
... cold. Another advantage of moccasins was their very light quality, unlike heavy rubber snow boots. Wearing moccasins made working outside and moving around easier.
Tags Winter, Man, European, Tract ...
Description: A man in the winter snow leading a cow and sled with a load of logs either used for fire wood, cooking or building material. In the background, possibly a Cree man, his snowshoes in the snow, ...
... enclosed grounds of a backyard, church mission or a HBC fort. Cree people often set up their teepees either near the Church or HBC compounds.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, Man, Tikinagans, European, ...
Description: A snowmobile stuck and buried in deep snow as two men dig out the machine. Snowmobiles, regardless of their size or strength, still occasionally became bogged down in the deep snow of the ...
Description: A priest or mission worker leading harnessed cows pulling a load of hay with Cree boys and Cree women dressed in traditional shawls, some with pitch forks.
Tags Summer, Farming, Groups ...
Description: A winter tractor train stopped on the river ice. The tractor trains moved goods, trailers and other items between Moosonee and Moose Factory. These tractor trains also traveled days through ...
Description: The living quarters of a tractor train that traveled sometimes for days or a week in order to deliver goods from Moosonee to Fort Albany. A propane tank is strapped to the outside and used ...
Description: An early 1900s example of a snowmobile on skis with a small interior on the frozen river. Later versions of the snowmobile employed skis only at the front end and rubber wheels within steel ...
... classroom, the Healing game is a great opportunity to talk about traditional bush medicinal and to discuss Aboriginal medicinal practices were affected by the new diseases brought by European settlers. ...
... take for granted. As a class, brainstorm what life would have been like for the Cree and Ojibway people living in remote areas of Northern Ontario prior to European encroachment. Think about the skills ...
... other games. Aboriginal culture continues to grow and thrive today; while colonization and European expansion has dramatically affected Aboriginal groups across the country, Aboriginal peoples continue ...
... European encroachment and over trapping.
In the Healing Game, the player must discover, collect and administer 10 samples of medicinal plants that grow in the area. ...
... in 1905. At that time, our people were poor and weak. Many of us were sick from the diseases brought by the Europeans. The fur trade had wiped out most of the animals we relied on for food and clothing. ...
... rewards of their labours and the new technology offered by the Europeans. Instead of bow and arrows we now traded for steel guns. Instead of wooden deadfall traps, we now acquired steel traps. We also ...
... know these strangers to be Hudson Bay Company servants and explorers that traveled in tall, wooden ships from England to our lands in search of furs for European felt hats. We even have a Mushkegowuk ...
