Welcome to Boarding School!

Live with your friends. Decide what interests grab you and follow them where they lead you. Live in a place where you can fill your spare time with a canoe trip on the local lake, grab some friends for a quick game of touch football or go downtown with your friends. That's the boarding experience!

"There's a sort of magic to it that you don't find anywhere else."

—Nick, the Gow School

What is boarding school really like?

That's the big question: What's boarding school life really like? What's behind what you see in the classroom? How much is true in all those boarding school movies? What do boarding school students really get from living on their own? Experience boarding right here!

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Meet boarding school students and hear why they have come to love the boarding life.

"The time has gone by way too quickly!"

—Jeanette, Rosseau Lake College

At first many students are apprehensive about leaving parents and friends behind but boarding schools open up the world in a whole new way. ExperienceBoarding.ca offers videos from boarding school students, stories, anecdotes and testimonials and profiles of many of the top schools in Canada and from around the world.

Find out all about life inside boarding school!

"Only at boarding school can you make friends from all over the world and become independent.

— Anna, Ashbury College