Description: The Catholic Missions employed farm animals such as cows for work and many Cree residential students who had never seen these strange animals before eventually became accustomed to cows and ...

Description: A Fort Albany Cree man that accidentally shot himself with a gun attended to by a Catholic nun. Missions provided health care, food and beds for many Cree that became sick or injured due to ...

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

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: 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: 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: A small sailboat or schooner with a dwelling cover suggesting cooking and sleeping area for overnight anchoring while on extended trips to the communities or when bad weather impeded travel. Tags ...

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 example of using horse power to pull a schooner or sailboat on logs up onto dry land before the winter freeze up of the rivers. Here the horse is tethered to a turn stall attached to 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