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10/17/2023
The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) announced the first recipients of new scholarships supported by the RAC's annual Women in Rail Conference.
The scholarships are funded by proceeds from the 2023 conference, which took place in June. The first recipients are Lyric Wright, Brianna Carter and Rikki MacMullin, all students of Lambton College in Ontario, and Kayla Vollant, a student at Cégep de Sept-Îles in Quebec.
Recipients from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology will be announced soon, RAC officials said in a press release.
All four of these post-secondary institutions offer specialized training to prepare young people for careers in rail, including as conductors. Each institution is also an RAC associate member.
"Women in Rail is all about breaking down barriers to gender equality, shattering glass ceilings, and getting more women working at our railways — in yards, on trains, in offices and in boardrooms," said RAC President and CEO Marc Brazeau. "Over the last few years, Women in Rail has become more than an event. It’s become a movement. These scholarships are an important way for us to pay it forward to the next generation of female railroaders."