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Description: A row of vegetable plants and a building under construction. Both the Churches and Mission school at Moose Factory had a farm, large gardens and farm animals to feed the staff and students.
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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: 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: A group of people gathered on the shore. Cree people often celebrated and camped near the river banks during summertime to celebrate, feast and play games after arriving from their winter ...
Description: Men and women constructing a summer teepee. First the poles are arranged in a circle with enough space for one family. After covering the teepee poles with tarp, spruce boughs will be collected ...
Description: Men working with logs either squaring or stripping the bark off by axe to be further sawed into straight boards used in construction of buildings and houses.
Tags Summer, logging, Man, European ...
Description: Men in the river moving logs to be used in making construction material for buildings and houses.
Tags Summer, logging, Man, Groups of People, European
Description: Scaffolding on the face of a building could be the construction of a new building at the Catholic mission to replace the one that was destroyed by a fire.
Tags Summer, Construction, Hosp ...
Description: Older experienced men, middle-aged men and young boys often worked along side the Catholic priests in construction and repairing of buildings. Without local Cree physical labour, workmanship, ...
Description: A worker with a hand saw cutting boards for the construction of a building in the background. In the early days, all cutting of boards was done by hand.
Tags Summer, Construction, Man, European ...
Description: Three men work outside in winter splitting logs for construction purposes. The logs are piled standing up against each other to prevent them from freezing to the ground in winter (right side ...
Description: A Cree man sands down an object using an electric sanding stone. Many Cree learned construction skills and shop skills through the early, mid-1900s and later working with missions and Indian ...
Description: Cree men working around a construction site. Due to the isolation of communities in the north, many contraptions were modified to help with lifting material, cutting logs and other tasks. ...
Description: A man operating a mechanical saw used to make boards and planks for building material.
Tags Summer, Construction, Man, European
Description: A non-Cree person working on heavy construction equipment while a Cree young man assists.
Tags Construction, Man, European
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, ...
... of newcomers had outgrown the First Peoples (ibid). Therefore, we were in the way of “progress” and certainly in the way of railroads, clear cutting forestry, mine development, surveying, road construction ...
