School car

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In the Northern Ontario bush, many families lived too far from communities to allow their children to attend school. As a way of providing education to these children of railroad workers, trappers, natives and other people of the bush the Canadian government instituted the school car system (in French: Des écoles sur rails).[ definition needed ] At its peak, in the 1940s, as many as seven school trains travelled on the tracks of Northern Ontario. [1] The school cars or "school on wheels" ran from 1926 to 1967, and stopped at each site on their route for three to five days out of a month. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Siegel, Alicia (9 January 2023). "School Cars: How trains brought classrooms to children in remote communities". CBC. Archived from the original on 15 February 2025. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Schuessler, Karl and Mary School On Wheels Boston mills press 1986


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