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: A view from behind the Catholic Church in Moosonee in the 1960s. The three story building was a residence and offices for the Catholic priest and bishops during their work in Moosonee and ...

Description: A frontal view of the Catholic Church in Moosonee. Tags Summer, Church, Moosonee

Description: A group of Cree people posing with a southern politician visiting Moosonee in 1947. Tags Summer, Tikinagans, Groups of People, Children, European, Moosonee

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 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.  ...

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, ...

Description: A house during winter in Moosonee during the 1900s. The photo shows very few dwellings in the early years. Tags Winter, Old Style Houses, Village, Moosonee

Description: In the 1960-70s, Canada established distant early warning radar bases all over the north in anticipation of potential missile attacks over the Arctic. Moosonee was the location of one such ...

Description: A winter hunting camp with the traditional teepee dwelling packed with snow around the base to keep heat inside. Spruce or Balsam boughs were placed on the ground inside the teepee for flooring ...

Description: Helicopters were another form of goods and passenger airlifting between Moosonee and Moose Factory. This form of travel was very important during fall river freeze up and spring river break ...

Description: A winter parade float during a Christmas proceeding down main street in downtown Moosonee. Tags Winter, Children, European, Modern Houses, 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: Spring thaw and the river ice break up in Moosonee and Moose Factory on the Moose River was very precarious as ice jams at the mouth to James Bay caused water and ice pieces to back up and ...

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, ...