Description: An aerial view, likely taken from a helicopter of downtown Moosonee - a town located near to Moose Factory. The Catholic Church can be in the center of the photo. Tags Spring Ice Break, ...

Description: A church or possibly a barn under construction to be used for keeping horses, cows and other farm animals inside. Tags Summer, Construction, Church, Moose Factory

Description: Evidence that farm animals and old style carts were used for transportation as well as for farm work. Tags Summer, Man, European, Carts, Moose Factory, Cow, Moose Factory

Description: A view from the Moose River of the St. Thomas Anglican Church on the left and Hudson's Bay Company store, staff house and warehouses on the right. Tags Summer, Church, Modern Houses, Moose ...

Description: The Catholic Church in Moose Factory ministered to a portion of the community but today is non-existent in the community. Tags Church, Moose Factory

Description: The Hudson's Bay Company compound that comprised a main store and staff house that accommodated store personnel. The grounds usually were very well manicured and maintained. Tags Summer, ...

Description: In the early 1900s, horses, trucks, and motorcycles would have been mainly used by non-Cree people. Usually the missionaries, store managers or hospital personnel. Tags Fall, Man, Children, ...

Description: An early 1900s aircraft on the ice in Moose Factory with the Hudson's Bay Company buildings in the background. Tags Winter, Plane, Modern Houses, Moose Factory

Description: An early 1900s scene of residential school children most likely from the Anglican mission school. Notice the church cross worn by the children. Tags Summer, Children, Groups of People, ...

Description: An important mode of transportation using huskies and sleighs in Moose Factory, ON that is largely forgotten. Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, DogSleigh, ...

Description: In Moose Factory, the missionaries entertained Cree children with movie projectors and movies that were never seen before. It was very popular amongst the local Cree population. The missionaries ...

Description: At one time in Moose Factory, ON, residential schools employed the use of horses for the farm work. As well, trucks appeared during the 1950s. Tags Winter, Horse Sled, Truck, Horse, Moose ...

Description: A summer scene near the hospital in Moose Factory. The building in the back was one of a number of residences for hospital personnel such as doctors and nurses who came from southern cities ...

Description: A Cree woman in traditional shawl leaves the teepee with a child during the winter. Tags Winter, Woman, Family, Boy, Shawls, Traditional, Teepees, Everyday Life, Moose Factory

Description: Three young Cree women. Possibly visiting a local teacher, priest, store manager or doctor in Moose Factory, ON. Tags Winter, Boy, Woman, Man, European, Moose Factory

Description: Hudson's Bay Company blacksmith shop in Moose Factory, ON. Moose Factory was at one time in the fur trade the most important post on James Bay. Tags Winter, Blacksmith, Old Style Houses, ...

Description: The Catholics as well as the Anglicans established churches in Moose Factory, ON. In this photo, a missionary is helping cut planks for building material. Missionaries and local men worked ...

Description: An example of life in Moose Factory most likely mid 1900s. The woman was probably gathering snow and going about her daily tasks of cooking and cleaning. Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Groups ...

Description: The church missionaries baptized and confirmed many Cree people in Moose Factory, ON. Christianity played an important role in everyone's life in James Bay. Tags Boy, Girl, Missionaries ...

Description: A view of the hospital in Moosonee in 1966. Moose Factory also had a large hospital during this time and both hospitals were built to address the tuberculosis epidemic of the mid-1900s.  ...