DARING DEATH FOR SCHOOL.
PLUCKY YOUNG CANADIANS. FORTY MILES WITH DOG TEAM. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, November 10. Supporting themselves by trapping, two children, aged 7 and 9, endured the hardships of winter in the north country, living in a tent so that they could attend school. This was the story told by Dr. J. H. MacDougall, of the Ontario Department of Education, addressing the convention here of the National League of Compulsory Education. In their thirst for learning, the children, David and Arthur Clement, whose mother had died and whose father had returned to his trap lines around Hudson Bay, "mushed" forty miles with a dog team, pitched their tent in five feet of snow in a spruce forest, and attended tlie school car all through the winter on the five days each month in which it was in their district.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 289, 7 December 1931, Page 5
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