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School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:54:08
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Synopsis
They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. It was a novel six-month experiment that lasted 40 years, from 1926 to 1967. IDEAS producer Alisa Siegel explores remote education, homeschooling and nation-building. *This episode originally aired on January 9, 2023.