Photos of Matheson Island history
Photographs documenting history at Matheson Island are up on the walls in the Matheson Island community hall. People went to the hall for a potluck lunch as part of a fiftieth anniversary celebration.
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Two people walk along a cleared path on a snow-covered road in Loon Straits, Manitoba.
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A slide of Mennonite Pioneer Mission workers Henry and Susan Gerbrandt in Loon Straits, Manitoba.
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A group of Indigenous peoples wearing mild weather clothing.
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A man is bent over holding an infant in a tent. There are two other young children present.
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Two Indigenous dancers dressed in indigenous regalia dance past spectators. One of the dancers is holding Canadian and American national flags.
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Woman, children on residential sidewalk
A woman and two children walk down a residential sidewalk. Location is likely Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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A slide of Pauingassi church members. They might be members who were recently baptized.
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An Indigenous man sticks his head out of a crowd to look at the camera.
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Native Ministries staff meeting
Native Ministries staff sit around a table at a meeting.
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Dave Lehman, a Native Ministries worker from Indiana. He drowned at some rapids in Manitoba in 1983 (?).
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Native Ministries worker Henry Neufeld. There is an airplane in the background.
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Native Ministries staff stand in front of the Lowe farm youth bus. The bus was chartered to pick up children from the Bloodvein River, Matheson Island, Pine Dock, and Riverton communities for Native Camp. Left to right: Edith von Gunten, Lena Settee (?), Neill von Gunten, Gail Monkman.
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Nelson Flett on the Matheson Island cable ferry. Children would come over on the ferry to meet the bus that would take them to Native Camp.
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A floatplane on the water near Pauingassi, Manitoba. Children from Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids who wanted to attend Native Camp would have to fly out.
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