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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: 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: 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: A snowmobile with a large, hauling sled that was most likely delivering goods from Moosonee to the coastal communities in James Bay. Trips sometimes may take a day or more depending on the ...
Description: An earlier 1940s version of the snowmobile on the Moose River at Moosonee and Moose Factory.
Tags Winter, Man, European, Snowmobile, Moosonee
Description: A view of downtown Moosonee with the Catholic Church as one of the more prominent buildings comprising the center of the community.
Tags Winter, Church, Modern Houses, Village, Moosonee
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Description: Moosonee in the winter during the 1950s. A snowmobile on the main street was used in Moosonee and Moose Factory to haul goods or passengers. The snowmobile was part tractor and vehicle that ...
Description: A loader pulling a parade float with the traditional Shaaptwaan (long teepee-like structure) constructed on it that was used for cooking and could hold up to two to three families.
Tags Winter, ...
Description: Hunters or trappers at a cabin. A wooden box sled on the right was used to transport goods, people and pulled by the introduction snowmobiles. Snowmobiles began to replace the dog team and ...
Description: Two hunters or trappers on snowshoes pulling a traditional toboggan. Trappers used toboggans to transport the animal resources they trapped back to the camp such as beaver, marten, fox and ...
Description: Sled dogs taking a rest with two people.
Tags Winter, Man, Woman, European, Dog Sleigh, Moosonee
Description: A Christmas parade in downtown Moosonee.
Tags Winter, Woman, Man, Children, Groups of People, Family, European, Traditional, Celebrations, Moosonee
Description: Carved, wooden spoons used for eating and mixing. Larger types used for removing slush from ice fishing holes in the winter time.
Tags Wooden spoons, Eating utensils, Moosonee
Description: Two tractors moving a house on skids during winter. The river ice usually froze well beyond a thickness to allow it to withstand any cracking or breaking.
Tags Winter, Snowmobile, Old Style ...
Description: Men sawing logs in the background as one man in the foreground chops at a tree to remove it for building material.
Tags Winter, Cutting Wood, Man, Groups of People, European
Description: A minister or priest with helpers leading what appears to be a funeral procession or burial. The congregation is dressed in black.
Tags Winter, Groups of People
Description: Three people outside of a house either piling logs or cutting wood.
Tags Winter, Man, Old Style Houses
