Schefferville is an old mining town of only 213 people in remote northeastern Canada. The train station is the communities lifeline to the outside world, but once the mines dried up, the trains stopped servicing Schefferville, leaving its mostly Indigenous inhabitants isolated.
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The Canadian Encyclopedia | Schefferville - https://bit.ly/3UDCGHX
CCN Matthews | A first in Canadian history: aboriginal ownership of railway line - https://bit.ly/3DJ6yvS
Ernst Hakon Jahr, Ingvild Broch | Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages - https://bit.ly/3FUzFz4
Statistics Canada | 2021 Census of Population - https://bit.ly/3zZnUDG
Toponymy Commission | Schefferville - https://bit.ly/3NROZyh
Northern Law | Voyage à Schefferville - Voyage au Moyen-Nord du Québec - 2021 - https://bit.ly/3tfJv7a
Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway | About QNS&L - https://bit.ly/3Ed7nhY
Weather Base | Schefferville, Quebec - https://bit.ly/3Eg6fdv
CBC | Naskapi Nation vows to protect its paradise in northern Quebec - https://bit.ly/3FZEkQ3
Naskapi | History - https://bit.ly/3zU0zTV
Nametau Innu | Matimekush - https://bit.ly/3DK4zas
Statistics Canada | Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) - https://bit.ly/3EgRN4U
UPI | Iron Ore of Canada to close Schefferville operations - https://bit.ly/3A0ILq5
Graham Humphrys | Schefferville, Quebec: A New Pioneering Town - https://bit.ly/3TfdHtH
Community Accounts | Labrador City Profiles - https://bit.ly/3zYtJB4
The Independent | Life in the frozen north: Canada's first native-owned train is the pride of its community - https://bit.ly/3NNZT88
Richard Anderson | Tshiuetin train southbound 2 Sep 2016 - https://bit.ly/3WWPQ54
RJ Falconi | The Tshiuetin Train - https://bit.ly/3zYnu0c
On The World Map | Railway map of Canada - https://bit.ly/3UWZyCL
Rio Tinto | Schefferville on track for growth - https://bit.ly/3G1qGvY
Canada | Canada's New Government supports First Nations railway - https://bit.ly/3WJmh6J
CBC | Tshiuetin - https://bit.ly/3DPttpu
Tshiuetin | Passenger Train Schedule - https://bit.ly/3Tji9HB
The New York Times | Commuting, and Confronting History, on a Remote Canadian Railway - https://nyti.ms/3hv8qRC
Tshiuetin Rail Transportation - https://bit.ly/3UAjxXs
Chicago Tribune | A slow ride to Lab City - https://bit.ly/3teIJqX
Railway Age | Tshiuetin Rail Receiving C$55MM to Modernize - https://bit.ly/3G8t83E
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome to Canada's most isolated Town
1:00 - History of the region
2:10 - What's it like living here
2:48 - Schefferville's Mining boom and bust
3:56 - A Railway to the outside world
5:00 - Why the QNSL left a community isolated
5:31 - The Tshiuetin Rail Transportation
6:24 - The train journey takes how long?!
7:37 - The future of this Indigenous Railway
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