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Description: Catholic Priests in Moosonee in 1948 pose for a photo with many Cree people and children.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, Church, Missionaries & Children, Moosonee
Description: A mid-1900s school in Moosonee. Throughout the 1900s in Moosonee, the Catholic Church established a Catholic Public School. Today, in Moosonee, many Cree people attend Catholic Church services ...
Description: Cree Elders, men, women and children with a priest pose for a photo. By the 1940s, the Catholic Church and religion was much incorporated into Cree life and followed by many western James ...
Description: Two sled dog teams arrive in Moosonee.
Tags Winter, Man, Dog Sleigh, Modern Houses, Village, Moosonee
Description: Two women walk the dirt roads of downtown Moosonee.
Tags Fall, Woman, European, Village, Modern Houses, Moosonee
Description: A group of men beside the train pose for a photo at the Onakawana lignite site located along the route north to Moosonee. Lignite was a resource the Ontario government contemplated removing ...
Description: A Cree woman and non-Cree, perhaps sharing bannock with each other.
Tags Summer, Farming, Woman, European, Moosonee
Description: A group of Cree adults and children during the early 1900s. The woman wears a traditional shawl worn by Cree women during this early period.
Tags Family, European, Moosonee
Description: A Cree family at their winter teepee camp. A shove pipe can be seen at the top of the teepee. The woman and the girls wear the traditional shawl wrapped around their heads. A baby is secured ...
Description: Women gathered in a field in front of the local Church as two young female Cree girls eat bannock and drink tea in the foreground.
Tags Summer, Woman, Tikinagans, Children, Groups of People, ...
... radar base that housed military vehicles like the one here participating in the Moosonee Christmas parade. Many military service men stationed at Moosonee inter-married with local Cree women from Moosonee ...
Description: A 1960s freight truck owned by Two Bay Enterprises in Moosonee broke through the ice just in front of the shoreline at Moosonee. Winter road travel between Moosonee and Moose Factory was ...
Description: Amphibian type aircraft known as "Canso" were much in use in the 1960s in James Bay. These aircraft transported goods and passengers to many communities in James Bay.
Tags Summer, Plane, ...
Description: A snowmobile with a large, hauling sled that was most likely delivering goods from Moosonee to the coastal communities in James Bay. Trips sometimes may take a day or more depending on the ...
... Church missions. Cree men were an important source of labour, reliability and knowledge when traveling the James Bay and its tributaries.
Tags Summer, Man, European, Sailboat, Canoe, Missionaries, M ...
Description: An earlier 1940s version of the snowmobile on the Moose River at Moosonee and Moose Factory.
Tags Winter, Man, European, Snowmobile, Moosonee
Description: Southern government politicians making a visit to Moose Factory in the 1970s. Standing with them is Moose Factory Cree Andrew Faries, second from the right.
Tags Summer, Man, European, ...
Description: A float plane anchored by the shore to either take on or unload passengers or goods.
Tags Summer, Man, Woman, European, Plane, Moosonee
Description: Hunters or trappers at a cabin. A wooden box sled on the right was used to transport goods, people and pulled by the introduction snowmobiles. Snowmobiles began to replace the dog team and ...
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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