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The Original School on Wheels #15089
The School on Wheels Car #15089, now a unique museum in Clinton, was one of only seven such railway schools used as a highly successful method of reaching and teaching the isolated children and adults of the Northern Ontario wilderness in the 1900s.
Car #15089 is one of the original seven school cars, and was thought to have been scrapped long ago, until found abandoned in 1982, just outside of Toronto at a CN Rail yard. It was transported to Clinton to undergo renovation and is now a museum located in the beautiful park which bears the Sloman name; acting as a memorial for Clinton native Fred Sloman, the "Dean of School Car Teachers," who lived and taught in this travelling school from 1926 to 1965.
Visitors will be amazed at how Fred Sloman and his family lived and travelled in this single railway car, bringing reading and writing skills to Canada's remote north. One of Fred Sloman's children, Margaret, still lives in Clinton, not far from the school car where she spent much of her childhood.