School car

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.
At its peak, in the 1940s, as many as seven school trains travelled on the tracks of Northern Ontario. 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.