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LISTEN: Canada's School Trains

- CBC Radio One - IDEAS - WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 - 9:00 pm Eastern Time

"Canada's School Trains"

They were known as School Cars and Schools on Wheels. Trains that chugged and chuffed along the railroads and brought schooling to children living in the isolated communities of Northern Ontario. It was a novel six-month experiment that lasted forty years, from 1926 to 1967. In this documentary, Alisa Siegel explores an early project in remote education, homeschooling, and nation-building.

*This episode originally aired on Jan. 9, 2023.
[ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/school-t ... 12_1805670 ]