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Cree Trapper Philip Cox, shown at home with daughter, Evelyn, 8, is one of the few Indians who still rely on trap lines for most of their income. Cox'(...)
Cree Trapper Philip Cox, shown at home with daughter, Evelyn, 8, is one of the few Indians who still rely on trap lines for most of their income. Cox'(...)

Cree Trapper Philip Cox, shown at home with daughter, Evelyn, 8, is one of the few Indians who still rely on trap lines for most of their income. Cox'(...)

Date5/17/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cree Trapper Philip Cox; shown at home with daughter; Evelyn; 8; is one of the few Indians who still rely on trap lines for most of their income. Cox's line is on the site of a proposed hydro dam and airstrip; part of a giant plan to develop the James Bay area of Quebec.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008890F
Indian hunters and trappers who live in the vast area to be affected by James Bay $6 billion development project fear damming of rivers will destroy t(...)
Indian hunters and trappers who live in the vast area to be affected by James Bay $6 billion development project fear damming of rivers will destroy t(...)
5/17/1972
The Indians are angry because no one consulted them before plans were made for the area
The Indians are angry because no one consulted them before plans were made for the area
5/17/1972
Home from the hunt: There'll be goose meat roasting in the teepees of Fort George, in the centre of town where huts and washing lines are scattered higgledy-piggledy
Home from the hunt: There'll be goose meat roasting in the teepees of Fort George, in the centre of town where huts and washing lines are scattered higgledy-piggledy
5/17/1972
Fort George is the largest community in the region that will be affected by Quebec's plans for the east shore of James Bay. The 1,250 Indians who live there fear it will be flooded
Fort George is the largest community in the region that will be affected by Quebec's plans for the east shore of James Bay. The 1,250 Indians who live there fear it will be flooded
5/17/1972
Bill Ottereyes, a Cree and a Waswonipi band councillor, holds a beaver skin in his one-room shack in Matagami, gateway to the land in which the huge J(...)
Bill Ottereyes, a Cree and a Waswonipi band councillor, holds a beaver skin in his one-room shack in Matagami, gateway to the land in which the huge J(...)
11/18/1973
The cree of the James Bay area have one of the last non-dependent native cultures in North America
The cree of the James Bay area have one of the last non-dependent native cultures in North America
5/17/1972
Environmental cause: Quebec Crees, like this trapper near the site of the Great Whale hydro project, have won the support of many American environmentalists
Environmental cause: Quebec Crees, like this trapper near the site of the Great Whale hydro project, have won the support of many American environmentalists
9/11/1991
Helping to build a new addition to the family's trapper's camp in the woods, Kathleen Jolly snow-shoes through the bush to gather spruce branches for flooring of shelter made of spliced saplings
Helping to build a new addition to the family's trapper's camp in the woods, Kathleen Jolly snow-shoes through the bush to gather spruce branches for flooring of shelter made of spliced saplings
3/7/1974
Baby, It's cold up there!, Ontario Hydro worker Vern Gunley, pruning trees along hydro lines at Steeles Ave
Baby, It's cold up there!, Ontario Hydro worker Vern Gunley, pruning trees along hydro lines at Steeles Ave
1/30/1973
Dousing blaze: Ontario Hydro worker sprays hydro lines coated with oil after the transformer explosion
Dousing blaze: Ontario Hydro worker sprays hydro lines coated with oil after the transformer explosion
4/25/1990
Location of Ontario power lines could make or break Quebec's James Bay power dam
Location of Ontario power lines could make or break Quebec's James Bay power dam
9/22/1969
Checking his traps, Cree trapper Allan Diamond, 25, snowshoes on Tukanee Lake, north of Sault Ste
Checking his traps, Cree trapper Allan Diamond, 25, snowshoes on Tukanee Lake, north of Sault Ste
2/13/1976