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: 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, ...

... and protection against the cold from the ground. A rack made of poles outside was used to hang harvested animals and meat to keep out of reach of martens or foxes during the night. Tags Winter, Missionaries, ...

... 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: 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 ...

... 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: A Cree man with two cows used for mission farm work such as hauling logs, freight, and other goods as well as tilling the soil. Many Cree learned how to bale hay, feed cows and care for the ...

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 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 priest and two unidentified men skinning a small beluga or large seal as two Cree women dressed in hoods stand beside their teepee in the background. This activity takes place within the ...

... to be translated to us. And those that translated, usually Hudson’s Bay Company interpreters or missionaries, may not have explained and translated everything properly. So, in many cases, our oral understandings ...