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When Xavier, the narrator, was a child, his family had a beaver for a pet. During the day he slept but during the night he worked hard at cutting willow sticks until there was a pile blocking the door. ...
Description: Traditional tikinagans were used to secure babies as women carried them on their backs while they went about their daily work of washing clothes, cutting wood or gathering boughs for the teepee ...
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: 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 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 people outside of a house either piling logs or cutting wood.
Tags Winter, Man, Old Style Houses
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. ...
... 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 ...
