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Title: A snapshot from the past
Review: 'Canal Boat Children' is a remarkable study made in the 1930's surveying the children who lived on the canal boats in Ohio, Pa, and NY. It makes you think about the advantages our current school system provides children. For the most part these children had no formal education. It also makes you appreciate how hard people (children as well as adults) worked in the 19th century. Although written at the end of the canal boat era, the booklet gives you the sense of life on the canals from their inception. This is not a long document, and can easily be read in an evening. It includes interesting photographs.
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