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

<p>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. <em>IDEAS </em>producer Alisa Siegel explores remote education, homeschooling and nation-building. <em>*This episode originally aired on January 9, 2023.</em></p>