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The cornerstone of Ashland School, on Ashland Avenue in Winnipeg, was laid in a ceremony on 2 November 1951 and a one-storey structure measuring 194 feet by 60 feet was built at a cost of about $120,000. The school closed in 1982 and, as of 1993, the building now hosts a Diagnostic Learning Centre of the Winnipeg School Division.
Period
Principal
1952-1955
Evelyn Dorothy [Dorothea] Cox (1913-2010)
1955-1959
Anne Smigel (1914-2008)
1959-1967
Dorothy May Allward (1904-1968)
1967-1969
None
1969-1974
Donalda Ruth Stewart “Donna” Stanbra (1925-2011)
1974-1976
Mary Pankiw
1976-1978
Orysia Seredny
1978-1981
Carol Marie Basarab
1981-1982
W. Garry Lally
Period
Vice-Principal
1952-1967
None
1967-1969
Ann “Anna” Phillips (?-2000)
1969-1982
None
School Year
Teachers
1952-1953
William John Birtles, Evelyn Dorothy [Dorothea] Cox (grades 4-5), Kathleen Leone Dixon (grade 1), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Margaret Pauline Holloway (grades 1-2), Mary Victoria Irwin (kindergarten), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch (grade 2)
1953-1954
Mary Christine Buckner (grade 1), Evelyn Dorothy [Dorothea] Cox (grade 4), Helen Isobel Drysdale (kindergarten), June Marion Helen Hamm (grade 1), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Alma Claire Laurin (grades 2-3), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch (grade 2)
1954-1955
Evelyn Dorothy [Dorothea] Cox (grade 4), Helen Isobel Drysdale (kindergarten), Lucia Ellen Hart (grades 3-4), June Marion Helen Hamm (grade 1), Alma Claire Laurin (grades 2-3), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch (grade 2), Ruth Catherine Woods (grades 1-2)
1955-1956
Helen Isobel Drysdale (kindergarten), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Sophie Kominetsky (grade 1, April-June), Alma Claire Laurin (grade 3), Ruth Catherine Woods Sheppard (grade 1, September-March), Anne Smigel (grade 4), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch Stevenson (grade 2), June Marion Helen Hamm Wieler (grades 1-2)
1956-1957
Elizabeth Fallman (kindergarten), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Sophie Kominetsky (grade 1), Alma Claire Laurin (grade 2), Anne Smigel (grade 4), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch Stevenson (grade 1), Sally Lockwood Stinson (grade 2, September-April), Lelwen Mary Woodruff (grade 2, April-June)
1957-1958
Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Mary E. Howell (kindergarten), Sophie Kominetsky (grade 1), Alma Claire Laurin (grade 2), Anne Smigel (grade 3), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch Stevenson (grades 1-2)
1958-1959
Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Lucia Ellen Hart (grade 3), Sophie Kominetsky (grade 1), Alma Claire Laurin (grade 2), Anne Smigel (grade 4), Shelagh Stephanie Marshall Quelch Stevenson (grades 2-3)
1959-1960
Dorothy May Allward (grade 4), Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Diane Rosemarie Artibise (grade 2), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Sophie Kominetsky (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grades 2-3), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 3), Evelyn Marie Wellwood (grade 4, Principal relief)
1960-1961
Dorothy May Allward (grade 4), Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Diane Rosemarie Artibise (grade 2), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grades 3-4), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grades 3-4), Kathleen May Toblan (grades 1-2)
1961-1962
Dorothy May Allward (grade 4), Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grades 3-4), Gale Jeanne Ryan (grades 1-2), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 3), Kathleen May Toblan (grade 2)
1962-1963
Dorothy May Allward (grade 4), Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grade 3), Olga Margaret Slipchenko (grade 2), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 4)
1963-1964
Dorothy May Allward (grade 5), Lois Mary Anderson (kindergarten), Clare Sophia Cameron (grades 1-2), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grades 3-4), Olga Margaret Slipchenko (grade 2), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 4)
1964-1965
Dorothy May Allward (grade 5), Clare Sophia Cameron (grades 1-2), Mary Fern Hughes (kindergarten, 0.5), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Ann Thomson Nosworthy (grade 3), Olga Margaret Slipchenko (grade 2), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 4)
1965-1966
Dorothy May Allward (grade 5, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), Frederica Borys (grade 5, Principal relief 0.5), Clare Sophia Cameron (grade 2), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Mary Fern Hughes (kindergarten, 0.5), Ann MacKellar (grade 3), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 4), Juith Irene Vogt (grades 2-3)
1966-1967
Dorothy May Allward (grade 5, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), Frederica Borys (grade 5, Principal relief 0.5), Clare Sophia Cameron (grade 2), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 3), Harriet Eleanor Halpenny (grade 1), Mary Fern Hughes (kindergarten, 0.5), Agnes Marguerite Sullivan (grade 4), Grace Lavina Vadeboncoeur (grade 3)
1967-1968
[includes Riverview School] Miss E. Alexander, Mrs. L. Anderson, Miss J. Becker, Miss P. Block, Mrs. E. Buhler, Mrs. E. Butler, Miss C. Cameron, Mrs. P. M. Coughlin, Mrs. E. Dale, Miss S. Derksen, Miss M. Feltham, Mrs. O. Flatt, Mrs. E. Grills, Mr. P. O. Heinrich, Mrs. P. Kirk, Miss M. McIntyre, Mrs. J. McKall, Miss M. McLaughlin, Miss N. Medel, Miss R. Neufeld, Miss J. Sandercock, Miss O. Serafin, Miss M. Sullivan, Mrs. G. Vandenboncoeur, Miss J. Warner
1968-1969
[includes Riverview School] Mrs. L. Anderson, Miss J. Becker, Miss E. Blanchette, Miss P. Block, R. Copley, Miss C. Cameron, Miss S. Derksen, Mrs. E. Dale, Mrs. O. Flatt, Mrs. E. Grills, Mrs. L. Hominick, Mrs. M. Long, Miss A. McIntyre, Miss M. McIntyre, Miss M. McLaughlin, Miss A. Moss, Mrs. R. Neufeld, Mrs. E. Pankratz, H. Pauls, Miss J. Sanderdock, Mrs. J. Sobovitch, Miss K. Stevenson, Miss M. Sullivan, Mrs. M. Toews, Miss M. Waldie, Miss J. Warner, Miss M. Wallace
1969-1970
Slare Sophia Cameron (grade 2), Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grades 2-3), Elizabeth Langstaff (grades 3-4), Margaret Jane Long (grade 4, Principal relief), Donalda Ruth Stewart “Donna” Stanbra (grade 4), Mary Toews (kindergarten)
1970-1971
Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 2), Pauline Cotton Guld (kindergarten), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Margaret Jane Long (grade 4)
1971-1972
Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 2), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Bernice Ruth Linney (music, itinerant), Margaret Jane Long (grade 4), Ingrid Slobodian (kindergarten)
1972-1973
Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 2), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Bernice Ruth Linney (music, itinerant), Margaret Jane Long (grade 4), Jeanette Ann Mardis (resource), Joan K. Matheson (kindergarten, September-October), Margaret Ruth Van Benthem (kindergarten, November-June),
1973-1974
Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 2), Petra Helina Maria Holim? (kindergarten), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Margaret Jane Long (grade 4)
1974-1975
Norma Lynne Eisener (grade 1), Mildred Eileen Grills (grade 2), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Diane Charlotte Laurin (grade 4), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten)
1975-1976
Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grade 1), Marilyn Janice Anne Henderson (grade 4), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Jeanette Ann Mardis (resource), Patricia Jane Marut (grade 2)
1976-1977
Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grade 1), Marilyn Janice Anne Henderson (grade 4), Elizabeth Langstaff (grade 3), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Jeanette Ann Mardis (resource), Patricia Jane Marut (grade 2)
1977-1978
Theodore Robert Bollenbach (grade 4), Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grade 1), Katherine M. Klassen (grade 3), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Patricia Jane Marut (grade 2), Marion Smith (resource)
1978-1979
Theodore Robert Bollenbach (grade 4), Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grade 1), Katherine M. Klassen (grade 3), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Patricia Jane Marut (grade 2), Marion Smith (resource)
1979-1980
Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grades 1-2), Katherine M. Klassen (grade 4), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Patricia Jane Marut (grades 2-3), Louise Janet Eleanor Mydynski (grade 4), Marion Smith (resource), , Anne Tate (music, itinerant; 0.? at Ashland School, 0.? at Kent Road School, 0.? at Sargent Park School, 0.? at Wolseley School)
1980-1981
Norma Lynne Eisener Britner (grade 1), Katherine M. Klassen (grades 3-4), Teresa Claire Klasz (grades 2-3), Doris Frieda Lehmann (kindergarten), Janet A. Sampson (no grade, 0.?), Marion Smith (resource), Anne Tate (music, 0.16 at Ashland School, 0.33 at Kent Road School, 0.25 at Sargent Park School, 0.16 at Wolseley School, 0.09 consulting)
1981-1982
?
Ashland School (no date)
Source: Winnipeg School Division
Ashland School (May 2017)
Source: Nathan Kramer
Ashland School (June 2019)
Source: Jim FryzaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.86375, W97.12155
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Riverview School (Casey Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sanford School No. 86 (Sanford, RM of Macdonald)
City of Winnipeg Building Permit 4810/1951, City of Winnipeg Archives.
“Board expected to study closing of two schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 April 1980, page 7.
“School closing probed,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 January 1981, page 20.
“Ashland School in danger,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1981, page 25.
“Ashland clarifications,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 February 1981, page 11.
“School closing probed,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 January 1981, page 13.
“Parents to lobby against closing of Ashland School,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 April 1982, page 3.
“Phone callers to lobby for school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 April 1982, page 6.
“Ashland School closing in limbo,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 April 1982, page 3.
Winnipeg School Division: Celebrating One Hundred Fifty Years, 1871-2021 by Winnipeg School Division, 2021.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Winnipeg School District No. 1 - Ashland School - Daily Registers, GR4497, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank the Winnipeg School Division, Jim Fryza, and George Stewart for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 November 2024
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