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. Tags ...

Description: Spring time in the communities usually brought the risk of rising rivers due to ice jams by the mouth of the rivers that flowed in the James Bay. Here two teepees are surrounded by water ...

Description: A young missionary on what appears to be possibly a sailboat or small schooner that were used extensively in James Bay by the missions. Tags Man, Missionaries

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: 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: 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 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 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: An engine powered schooner with passengers either arriving from the open waters of James Bay or making its way out to the mouth of the Bay. Tags Summer, Groups of People, Sailboat, Mooso ...

Description: A side view of a Catholic Church in one of the James Bay communities, possibly Moosonee. Various buildings in foreground could be the mission school or hospital run by the Catholic Church. Tags ...

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 ...

... the signing of Treaty No. 9, and the impact of that treaty. As a role playing game, players explore the history of the James Bay Treaty – Treaty no. 9. The project was originally made possible by support ...

... of rare photographs of the James Bay area from the Deschâtelets Archive at St. Paul University. Some of my personal favourites are: The Deschatelets Archive photo collection - Father Bilodeau ...

... a bull moose, learn about medicinal plants, ride in a canoe, lay trap lines, and renegotiate Treaty no. 9 (James Bay Treaty). Furthermore, this comprehensive site features a number of rich historical ...

... of Treaty No. Nine (James Bay Treaty) in the indigenous territory known as Nishnawbe Aski Nation (People’s Land). Our goal is to provide you with an understanding of the historical times in which Mushkegowuk ...

Copy of the original parchment version of The James Bay Treaty (Treaty 9) (webpage) http://www.treaty9diaries.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Treaty-9.pdf ᒋᑦᐢ ᐯ ᐊᔓᑕᒪᑫᐧᐃᐣ ᐊᔓᑕᒪᑫᐧᐃᐣ ᔕᐣᐠ ᑲ ᑭ ᐅᔑᑕᓂᐧᐊᐠ 1905 ᐁᑯ ...

"Kih-chi-itwe-win" (The Great Declaration or Word) The James Bay Treaty also known as, "Treaty Number 9" was signed in 1905 between various Anishinaabe (Northern Ojibway) and Mushkegowuk (Northern ...

... with other First Peoples and if we encountered strangers in our land, to leave them untouched. Our peoples signed Treaty No. Nine, also known as the James Bay Treaty in 1905. Treaty No. Nine, the ...