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Moosonee station is located at the end of First Street and has a small station building, freight shed, diesel shed and an outdoor yard to store trains. Tickets are sold by phone or at the offices Cochrane, Moosonee, Moose Factory and Timmins. The train will stop on demand in some locations as part of the flag stop service. [33]
Moose Cree (Cree: Mōsonī or Ililiw), also known as Moosonee (Monsoni), and together with Eastern Swampy Cree, also known as Central Cree, West James Bay Cree or West Main Cree. They speak the l-dialect of the Cree language. The Moose Cree were first noted in Jesuit Relations for 1671, along the shores of James Bay and along the Moose River.
It was the first English-speaking settlement in lands now making up Ontario [3] and the second Hudson's Bay Company post to be set up in North America after Fort Rupert. On the mainland, across the Moose River, is the nearby community of Moosonee , which is accessible by water taxi in the summer, ice road in the winter, and chartered helicopter ...
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Moosonee Airport (IATA: YMO, ICAO: CYMO) is located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) north-east of Moosonee, Ontario, Canada. The Moosonee Airport was officially opened in May 1970 and a new terminal building was constructed in July 1991, [4] which houses the airport management office and washrooms. There are several small buildings and ...
The term Moose Cree is derived either from the toponym Môsoniy, meaning 'Moose Island' or Môso-sîpiy, meaning 'Moose River'.The former is the historical name for the summering grounds of the speakers of this dialect, but has been appropriated by the modern municipality of Moosonee, leaving the island with the official English name of Moose Factory, a name that recalls the historical ...
Tidewater Provincial Park is a provincial park located on five islands [3] in the Moose River estuary between Moosonee and Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada: Charles Island; South Charles Island; Butler Island; Hayes Island; Bushy Island; The park was created in 1964 and is operated by the Town of Moosonee rather than the Ministry of Natural ...
Moose Factory became Ontario's first English-speaking settlement. In 1905, on behalf of the British Crown, treaty commissioners negotiated a treaty with Moose Cree First Nation. Treaty No. 9 was signed on 9 August 1905. [3] The treaty defined two tracts of land to beset aside for use and "benefit" of Moose Cree First Nation.