Agency:.Co-produced by Telewerx and GAPC Entertainment in association with History Television, Vision TV, Knowledge Network, Saskatchewan Communications Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, CTF: Licence Fee Program, Telefilm Canada, with the participation of Millennium Bureau of Canada, Roger's Cable Fund, CAVCO and Department of Canadian Heritage, Multicultural Program.

Executive producer, Sheila Petzold, Ken Stewart, Marcel Clément ; producer, Hoda Elatawi ; director, Sheila Petzold ; writer, Sheila Petzold, Susan Terrill ; director of photography, Karl Roeder ; music composer, Andrew Huggett ; archival research, Vivian Hanwell, Kate Keating, Kate Yule, Erin Brophy, Jillian Pranger ; research, Helen Dundass, Jody Nassr, Isobel Ripley ; content consultant, Barbara Freeman, David McDonald ; sound engineer, Robin Dumas ; sound recordist, Eldy Gouthro, Peter Kettlewell, Kate Kechnie, Larry MacDonald, Jane Porter, Vaughn Rowsell, Don Stewart, Douglas von Rosen.

Participant, Lundy Befrene, Steve Benjamin, Henry Bishop, Anna Bonokoski, Carl Brewer, Marilyn Buffalo, Hinson Calabrese, Wayson Choy, John C. Crosbie, Melanie Doane, Ken Dryden, Mabel Geary, Barbara Gowdy, Fred Greaves, Denis F. Mildon, Jack Harrison, Don Hillman, Elizabeth Hillman, Rosemary House, George Jordan, Sarah Kapoor, Noel Knockwood, Joy Kogawa, Myrna Kostash, Clare Laking, Christina Lamey, Kay Lorente, Greg Malone, Bob Mellor, Paul Métivier, Matthew Mitchell, Aiko Murakami, Mary Pratt, Edith Samuel Manierka, Mary Sexton, Karen Shopsowitz, Hellie Wilson, Caroline Woodside, Jamie Zeppa ; narrator, Becky Rynor.

Recorded 2003.

Growing up has become marked in school years but at the beginning of the 20th century most children attended primary school only. This bygone era is wonderfully evoked by still photos and archival film showing what children studied and where, from the one-room schoolhouse to a railway car. School in the 1940s and '50s is brought to life through interviews with adults who remember the first day at kindergarten, feared and loved teachers and encounters with the strap. The '60s and '70s brought television into the classroom and the concept of the open school, which changed the actual building. School is one of a 6-part series entitled Growing Up Canadian. These documentaries explore the myths and realities of Canadian childhood through family life, schooling, work, play, health and the media. The series marks the contribution of childhood and youth experience in defining Canada as it grew into full nationhood in the 20th century.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).