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: Men and women constructing a summer teepee. First the poles are arranged in a circle with enough space for one family. After covering the teepee poles with tarp, spruce boughs will be collected ...

Description: A Christmas parade in downtown Moosonee. Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, Traditional, Celebrations, Moosonee

... tourist arrivals provided a supplement financial boom for many Cree men who could use their canoe and river navigation skills for profit. Also at the dock is the popular Beaver aircraft. Tags Fall, Groups ...

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: Goods arriving by freighter canoe that used a motor engine with propeller by the mid-1900s. As others look on, men unload and carry the goods up a steep bank. Tags Summer, Generic, Groups ...

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 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: Men on small barge transporting bales across the river, likely at Fort Albany as the Catholic Church and residence was on an island. Tags Summer, Groups of People

Description: An outdoor prayer in the summer. Men on one side and women on the other side on their knees and pray as priests conduct prayers. Tags Summer, Groups of People, Marriage

Description: A minister or priest with helpers leading what appears to be a funeral procession or burial. The congregation is dressed in black. Tags Winter, Groups of People

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: 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: 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: Men load and board a low lying barge as a sailboat or schooner lies in the distance. Tags Summer, Man, Groups of People, Canoe, Sailboat, Small Vessel

Description: Cree men and a small barge with a deep body rests on the shoreline amidst loading or unloading of wooden crates and barrels. Tags Summer, Generic, Man, Groups of People, 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: Two small canoes and one large canoe with Cree people or possibly a family going to fish or hunt. Tags Summer, Groups of People, Canoe, Small Vessel