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 (in French: Des écoles sur rails).^{[definition needed]}

At its peak, in the 1940s, as many as seven school trains travelled on the tracks of Northern Ontario.^[1] 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.^[1][2]