Cross Lake (Manitoba)

CA MHC 721-12-16
Item
[195-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

A man poses for a photograph while working in the forest at Cross Lake, Manitoba during winter. He is standing next to a pile of brush while holding a knife. Some equipment lays beside him in the snow.

Unknown

M.P.M. house going up in Cross Lake

CA MHC 721-57-190
Item
[195-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

People constructing the Mennonite Pioneer Mission house in Cross Lake, Manitoba. Otto Hamm, who served as a missionary there for many years, might be in the photo with a J. Hildebrandt.

Unknown

Henry Berg and Cross Lake men

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-4268
Item
195-

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Henry Berg and several men are building the chapel. Building homes & schools was also part of MPM's work. See 14.4255 re. completed building & Otto Hamm's book, p.16 where this photo was used.

Unknown

Woman scraping a moose hide

CA MHC 721-12-05
Item
[195-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

A woman scrapes a moose hide at Cross Lake, Manitoba. The hide is tied to, and stretched by, a log frame.

Unknown

Margaret Hamm and Helen Willlms with children

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-4254
Item
1956

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Negative also. Margaret Hamm and children stand in front of mission home with six Cross Lake children and Helen Willms. They began Sunday School Nov. 1956 when the Hamm family came to Cross Lake. See 14.4252 f., CM 7-16-6.

Unknown

Mission chapel at Cross Lake

CA MAO XV-19.3-1992-14-4255
Item
1957

Part of The Canadian Mennonite photograph collection

Negative also. Used in CM 5-41-5. Mission chapel at Cross Lake; end & side of building Built with the joint support of MPM & the CMYO. Otto Hamm was in charge; dedicated Oct. 6. Smaller cropped photo (8.5x7.5) also. See 14.4268.

Unknown

D.V.B.S. at Cross Lake, Manitoba

Part of Mennonite Church Canada - Native Ministry Photo Collection

This photo shows a native boy and girl at a table with a coal-oil lamp.

Dog races at Cross Lake

Part of Mennonite Church Canada - Native Ministry Photo Collection

This photo shows several teams of dogs on the Nelson River just S.W. of the Hudson Bay Store with many people out to watch. The nursing station is on the left, followed by the Hudson's Bay Factors residence, Hudson's Bay Storage and the Hudson's Bay Trading Post to the far right.

Sawatsky, Ernie

Bonar Ross of Cross Lake

Part of Mennonite Church Canada - Native Ministry Photo Collection

This photo shows hunter Bonar Ross of Cross Lake, Manitoba kneeling beside the head of a moose with a tent in the background.

Church building

CA MHC 628-12.0
Item
[196-?]

Part of Conference of Mennonites in Canada Photograph Collection

This photo is of a small church building in the winter. This photo is likely that of Cross Lake (has been suggested that is could have been Loon Straits) in connection with the CMC's Native ministries (Mennonite Pioneer Mission) work there.