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Description: An early 18th or 19th century drawing of the HBC post at Moose Factory.
Tags Spring Ice Break, Canoe, Modern Houses, Moose Factory
Description: An early motorbike used by Father Bilodeau who was one of the Catholic Church priest stationed at Moose Factory in mid-1950s-70s.
Tags Spring Ice Break, Man, European, Motorcycle, Moose ...
Description: A Catholic priest with a group of children. Most likely in either Moosonee or Moose Factory. Both communities had a Catholic Church.
Tags Spring Ice Break, Groups of People, Man, Woman, ...
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: 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: 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: 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: Spring time in the communities usually brought the risk of rising rivers due to ice jams by the mouth of the rivers that flowed in the James Bay. Here two teepees are surrounded by water ...
Description: The Catholic Missions employed farm animals such as cows for work and many Cree residential students who had never seen these strange animals before eventually became accustomed to cows and ...
Description: Young Cree women, boys and girls in front of tent. One young boy holds a bow and arrow no longer used by Cree people with the introduction of the gun. By the early 1900s, most boys owned ...
... the timeless cycles of wildlife in relation to the recurring seasons (summer, spring, fall, winter), climates, and temperatures that affected all life forms and our lives as well. It took us many thousands ...
