The Rural Voice, 1993-08, Page 33Ontario through a school that
travelled on rail lines across the
north. Fred and Cela raised their
family as well as taught more than
1000 students in the various railway
cars turned into school rooms that
they used over 39 years before they
retired in 1966. The school car would
be dropped off at sidings across the
north, school children would come in
from the bush for several days of
lessons and be given homework to do
until the school returned for its next
stay. Then along would come another
train, that would hook onto the school
car and tow it to the next stop on the
route. Many of those students went
on to success, including one Member
of Parliament.
Shortly after his retirement back to
his hometown, Fred Sloman suffered
a stroke from which he never
recovered. Cela, however, lived on
for many years and with her daughter
Margaret and local author and
railway historian Elizabeth Willmot,
Local initiative
brought vandalized
wreck to Clinton
was responsible for the original
initiative to bring the last of the
school cars to Clinton in the early
1980s. With the help of the Town of
Clinton and local service clubs and
individuals and the CNR, the
vandalized remains of school car No.
15089 was hauled to Clinton in 1982
and set up in Sloman Memorial Park
on the banks of the Bayfield River
two blocks from the Sloman home. It
took years of restoration before the
little museum could open.
Today you can visit the classroom
and see the world the students of the
bush communities learned in. You
can also see the cramped quarters
where the Slomans raised their own
family. The museum is open from
Victoria Day to Labour Day, on
Thursdays and Fridays from 2-5 p.m.,
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 1-5
p.m.
While these two museums pay
tribute to a Canadian heritage, Frank
DeJong has built a huge
remembrance of his boyhood and his
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