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Until 1890, Brandon had separate Protestant and Catholic School Boards that operated schools in their respective religious denominations. They were merged into a single Board in 1890.
The Brandon School Division was created on 1 April 1959 by an order of the Manitoba Minister of Education, acting on a recommendation of the MacFarlane Commission on Education and the School Divisions Boundaries Commission. It became responsible for all secondary education, grades 9 to 12, within the area of the following school districts:
Ward
School Districts
1
Brandon School District No. 129
2
Alexander School District No. 338
Assiniboine School District No. 148
Bloomsbury School District No. 467
Dalton School District No. 459
Griswold School District No. 425
Kemnay School District No. 444
Gardner School District No. 619
Poplar Hill School District No. 479
Robert Burns School District No. 7043
Aweme School District No. 434
Beecher School District No. 2354
Blyth School District No. 471
Brandon Hills School District No. 138
Cornwallis School District No. 187
Curries Landing School District No. 183
East Brandon School District No. 165
Glen Souris School District No. 209
Gorrie School District No. 365
Grand Valley School District No. 206
Lawrence School District No. 364
Leslie School District No. 2120
Little Souris School District No. 227
Roseland School District No. 277
Shilo Siding School District No. 1973
South Brandon School District No. 596
Term
Chair
1882-1883
William Winter (c1840-?)
1884
Thomas Lockhart (1833-?)
1885
Stephen Clement (1831-1901)
1886
John A. Christie (1840-1920)
1887
John Russell (c1850-1905)
1888-1889
Stephen Clement (1831-1901)
1890
John A. Christie (1840-1920)
Term
Chair
1883-1890
?
Term
Chair
1890-1899
John A. Christie (1840-1920)
1900-1901
Robert Darrach (1855-1943)
1902-1903
William M. Alexander
1904-1905
Robert M. Matheson (1868-1945)
1906-1907
John Angus Macdonald (1862-?)
1908-1909
Andrew Douglas Rankin (1860-?)
1910
H. Sampson
1911
David Shirriff (1846-1931)
1912-1913
John Scott Maxwell (1862-1933)
1914-1915
Joseph Cornell (1862-1943)
1916
John Sutherland Matheson (1873-1942)
1917-1918
David M. Creighton
1919-1920
Angus Tyndall Condell (1869-1943)
1921-1923
George Arthur Fitton (1875-1956)
1924
John Sutherland Matheson (1873-1942)
1925
W. N. Sutherland
1926-1927
Robert J. Bullard
1928-1929
John Popkin
1930-1931
John Sutherland Matheson (1873-1942)
1932-1956
George Arthur Fitton (1875-1956)
1957-1958
G. P. Sutherland
1959-1960
Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)
1961-1963
Alvin Chown Hamilton (1926-2014)
1964-1970
Kenneth John Burgess (1928-2005)
1971-1973
Arwid Ludwig Lindenberg (1912-1995)
1974-1980
Mr. G. T. Williams
1980-1981
Mr. K. G. Knight
1982-1983
Mr. G. T. Williams
1984-1986
Mrs. M. G. Murray
1986-1989
Mr. L. J. Clermont
1990-1992
Mr. G. B. Sefton
1992-1993
Mrs. L. Morling
1993-1995
Mrs. L. Fjeldsted
1995-1998
Mr. D. Paterson
1998-2002
Mr. J. Murray
2002-2011
?
2011-2016
Mark Sefton
2016-?
Kevan Sumner
Term
Superintendent
1905-1908
Alexander Scott Rose (1858-1928)
1908-1922
Alfred White (1869-1955)
1922-1924
C. W. Webb (?-?)
1924-1950
Thomas Addison Neelin (1882-1970)
1950-1956
Henry George Wedge (1917-1987)
1956-1960
Carl Bjarnason (1915-2014)
1960-1971
John James “Jack” Hill (1916-1977)
1971-1993
John Leslie “Les” Milne (1935-2003)
1993-2001
Robert Merrill Swayze (1942-2023)
The following are schools that have operated in the Division since its inception, although not all of them are currently in operation, and few are based in their original buildings.
Alexandra School (College Avenue)
Betty Gibson School (701 Twelfth Street)
Brandon Collegiate Institute / New Era School (527 Louise Avenue)
David Livingstone School (1303 Assiniboine Avenue)
Earl Haig School (First Street)
Earl Oxford School (540 Eighteenth Street)
East Ward School (200 Fourth Street)
Fleming School (2320 Louise Avenue)
George Fitton School (1129 Third Street)
Green Acres School (335 Queens Avenue East)
Greenwood School (Shilo, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Harrison High School / Harrison Junior High School (415 Queens Avenue)
J. R. Reid School (813 Twenty-Sixth Street)
King George School (430 Victoria Avenue East)
Kirkcaldy Heights School (10 Knowlton Drive)
Linden Lanes School (49 Silver Birch Drive)
McLaren School (1031 Sixth Street)
McTavish School (603 Eleventh Street)
Meadows School (1220 Twenty-Second Street)
Neelin High School (1020 Brandon Avenue)
New Central School (Lorne Avenue)
O’Kelly School (Shilo, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Old Central School (Tenth Street)
Park School / West Ward School (Lorne Avenue)
Princess Elizabeth School (Shilo, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
Riverheights School (32 E. Fotheringham Drive)
St. Augustine School (330 Third Street)
Valleyview School (65 Whillier Drive)
Vincent Massey High School (715 McDiarmid Drive)
Waverly Park School (3800 Park Avenue)
See also:
In the Image of Ontario: Public Schools in Brandon 1881-1890 by Tom Mitchell
Manitoba History, Number 12, Autumn 1986Events in Manitoba History: Brandon Ultimatum (1 May 1922)
Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions (1959)
Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba’s Rural School Consolidation (1905-1967)
Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions Boundaries Commission (1958-1959)
Events in Manitoba History: MacFarlane Royal Commission on Education (1957-1959)
“Names of Brandon schools,” Brandon Sun, 6 October 1959, page 4.
Report of the School Divisions Boundaries Commission, 13 January 1959, Manitoba Legislative Library, SpR 1958 Education.
We thank Tom Mitchell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 September 2024
