Mennonite Archival Information Database

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

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

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.

Close-up of man wearing hat

CA MHC 721-12-15
Item
[196-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

This is a close-up of a man wearing a hat at Cross Lake, Manitoba.

Unknown

Jeremiah Ross reading from the Bible

CA MHC 721-12-25
Item
[196-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Jeremiah Ross reads from the Bible at church in Cross Lake, Manitoba.

Regehr, Rudy A., 1930-1997

Cross Lake Airways Norseman and crowds of people

CA MHC 721-12-02
Item
[196-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

A large crowd of people gather around a yellow bush plane in winter. There are buildings in the background.

Unknown

Fanny Ross beading

CA MHC 721-12-08
Item
[196-]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Fanny Ross is beading at a table.

Unknown

Fanny Ross cleaning a fish

CA MHC 721-12-09
Item
[196-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

Fanny Ross cleans a sturgeon fish on a piece of cardboard at Cross Lake, Manitoba. There are more fish lying on a mat.

Unknown

Gert Sawatzky pulling sled, Cross Lake

CA MHC 721-47-02
Item
[196-?]

Part of CMC Native Ministries Photograph Collection

A photo of a Gert Sawatzky pulling a sled of goods through the snow at Cross Lake, Manitoba. Gert and her husband Ernie served as missionaries in Cross Lake for a few years with Mennonite Pioneer Mission.

Unknown