Search
Description: A small schooner used in James Bay to travel the coasts delivering supplies and ferrying passengers.
Tags Fall, Groups of People, Sailboat, Moosonee
Description: Various small sailboats and boats at the dock in Moosonee in 1955. These vessels served the James Bay coastal communities and were a valuable link to goods, services and communications with ...
Description: A small sailboat anchored in the distance on a river and the men that likely worked and traveled on these sailboats to deliver goods and supplies either for the HBC, Catholic Church or Anglican ...
Description: Men on small barge transporting bales across the river, likely at Fort Albany as the Catholic Church and residence was on an island.
Tags Summer, Groups of People
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 with a cow with harness pulling a cart full of wood used in the missions for fire wood and cooking. In the background, other cows follow and cross a small bridge.
Tags Summer, Farming, ...
Description: A young missionary on what appears to be possibly a sailboat or small schooner that were used extensively in James Bay by the missions.
Tags Man, Missionaries
Description: Numerous Cree men, some standing as others sit, aboard a low lying barge used to transport goods and passengers.
Tags Summer, Groups of People, European, Small Vessel
Description: Two non-Cree and a Cree aboard a vessel traveling the James Bay or up stream on the rivers leading to the communities.
Tags Fall, Man, European, Small Vessel
