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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Sources 🔗

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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