Moose Factory
Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Moose Factory Island, near the mouth of the Moose River, which is at the southern end of James Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,460 residents
- Description: community in northern Ontario
- Also known as: “Moose Factory, ON” and “Moose Factory, Ontario”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moose Factory Island and St. Thomas’ Anglican Church.
Moose Factory Island
Island
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moose Factory Island is an island in the Moose River, Ontario, Canada, about 16 km from its mouth at James Bay. It is adjacent to the community of Moosonee across the Moose River, from which it is accessible by water taxi in the summer, a 2-minute helicopter…
St. Thomas’ Anglican Church
Church
Photo: Hjvannes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Thomas' Anglican Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Anglican church edifice built by the Hudson's Bay Company in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority
Hospital
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is a health-care network operating hospitals and supporting federal nursing stations in remote communities along the James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moosonee.
Moosonee
Photo: Hjvannes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moosonee is a town of 1,500 people in Northern Ontario. Called the "Gateway to the Arctic", it is Ontario's only saltwater port where goods are transferred from trains to aircraft and barges to more northerly communities.
Moose Factory
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.26022° or 51° 15′ 37″ northLongitude
-80.60328° or 80° 36′ 12″ westPopulation
2,460Open location code
963X796W+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 107365793OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Moose Factory” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “穆斯法克特里”
- Chinese: “驼鹿工厂市镇”
- Dutch: “Moose Factory”
- French: “Moose Factory”
- German: “Moose Factory”
- Italian: “Moose Factory”
- Japanese: “ムースファクトリー”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Moose Factory”
- Norwegian: “Moose Factory”
- Polish: “Moose Factory”
- Russian: “Мус-Фактори”
- Swedish: “Moose Factory”
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