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Description: A sailboat during winter being hauled over the ice by a tractor as a snowmobiler looks on. Sailboats, schooners and tugboats were often stored at Moosonee on land for the winter months.
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Description: An unidentified non-Cree on a schooner, possibly a visiting tourist, hunter or missionary on his way to northern communities.
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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 ...
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Description: A schooner onshore as men place a plank on its side to unload or load goods into it.
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Description: A captain, skipper or schooner boss looks on while workers move a schooner to shore using logs as rollers.
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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 ...
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Description: A schooner with a load of containers most likely propane tanks or oxygen tanks used for cooking or hospital supplies.
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Description: Two men refuelling the tractor that pulls the sled train across the frozen land and ice to northern communities. One man facing the camera wears traditional Cree moccasins to keep out the ...
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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, ...
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Description: A great example of Cree men hunting in a large canoe with a small sail to take advantage of wind power. One Cree man holds up a harvested goose or duck, while another Cree man in the front ...
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... 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.
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Description: Four Cree men appear to pull in a small beluga or seal. Two men secure the object while the other two paddle and steady the canoe from tipping over.
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Description: Cree men setting a fish net or checking the net. Usually the net was set one day and checked early the next morning before the tide goes out exposing fish to seagulls and sunlight.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Description: Two men till and work the boreal soil with a cow pulling a plough. Working the land in the northern communities was likely very difficult as the land had to be cleared, the summer was short ...
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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 ...
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... where players can learn the story of Treaty 9 as well as activities such as canoeing, trapping, hunting and healing, the website that houses the game offers many cultural resources. Among these resources ...
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... education” to one based “on principles of agriculture”: “We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development; ...