School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities

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.