School on Wheels

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76 Victoria Terrace
Clinton, Ontario N0M 1L0
CNR School on Wheels Museum Looking for something to do on a summer afternoon? Visit the CNR School on Wheels Museum in Sloman Park. The seasonal museum promises an entertaining and educational experience revolving around local and provincial history. From 1926 to 1965, Fred and Cela Sloman, along with their young family, spent ten months of the year on a railcar travelling through the Northern Ontario bush. The car was part of a program called School on Wheels that provided education to students in remote Northern Ontario. The railcar served as both a classroom and a living space for the Sloman family as it moved along a 150 mile stretch of track between Capreol and Foleyet. The car would travel connected to a train, before being left on a small piece of side track for several days while Fred Sloman taught the local children. The car would hook up to another train and continue on, leaving homework for the students until the school car would return.

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Impressive railcar used as a travelling school in northern Ontario!
7/21/2021

Canadian National Railways School on Wheels Museum, Ontario's last surviving school rail car used in...

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Wonderful Foresight
10/1/2019

On our way back to Stratford from Goderich we stopped at the School on Wheels, in Clinton. The grou...

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Excellent for a afternoon history trip
9/1/2018

Excellent way to find out the northern parts of Ontario used to get children to get an education. Th...

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