Families Without Schools
from Faculti
Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, Mona Gleason discusses the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars.
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