As school sections began to consolidate, the distance students would have to travel to get from home to school was often much greater. School busses were used to pick up students from county and township roads to take them to their school. The horse-drawn enclosed wagon served the purpose of bussing students long before there were big yellow school buses.

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Studebaker: School busses for Consolidated School Service catalog 1214 - back cover, 1918
Department of Education central registry files
Reference Code: RG 2-43, 1-285 (1918), box 46
Archives of Ontario

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Studebaker: School busses for Consolidated School Service catalog 1214 - front cover, 1918
Department of Education central registry files
Reference Code: RG 2-43, 1-285 (1918), box 46
Archives of Ontario

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Studebaker: School busses for Consolidated School Service catalog 1214, pp. 6-7, 1918
Department of Education central registry files
Reference Code: RG 2-43, 1-285 (1918), box 46
Archives of Ontario

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School Bus Safety, [196-?]
Ministry of Transportation
Colour filmstrip (63 photographs)
Reference Code: RG 14-152-1-19
Archives of Ontario

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Burgessville School, now Oxford County Museum, [ca. 1970]
Anne Logan fonds
Colour photo
Reference Code: C 238-2-0-22.2
Archives of Ontario, I0022827

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