With Unfailing Dedication: Rural Teachers in the War Years

ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-48-1
200 pages, paperback
Fall 2001

Non-Fiction

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The severe shortage of teachers brought on by World War II meant that teenagers — some with little or no training, were placed in charge of country schools. Trained teachers who had retired or left to raise families were pressed back into service, forced to cope with isolation, loneliness, poor living, and poor working conditions. With Unfailing Dedication is a fascinating and enlightening look at this almost unbelievable period in Canadian history.