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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Charleswood School No. 826 (Roblin Boulevard, RM of Charleswood)

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The Charleswood School District was established formally in August 1894, and a wood frame school operated on lots 59 and 60, donated by local resident Pat Beauchemin, in what would later become the Municipality of Charleswood, now a suburb of Winnipeg. In 1914, the original schoolhouse was replaced at the site by a two-storey, red brick building designed by Winnipeg architect E. D. Tuttle. Initially named Beauchemin School, it was later renamed Charleswood School. By the 1930s, the school hosted grades 1 to 11 in three of its four classrooms, with the fourth room used as the municipal office. An indoor recreation facility was in the basement along with bathrooms that lacked running water. In 1951, it became Charleswood Consolidated School No. 2337, merging with Loudoun School No. 1511 and Chapman School No. 1677.

Charleswood School closed in 1956 and henceforth students went to other newly-constructed schools in the area: Beaumont School, Dieppe School, or Royal School. High school students went to Chapman School for a time until Charleswood Collegiate was built. The former Charleswood School building was taken over by the Royal Canadian Legion, which used it as a Legion Hall until a new structure was erected. The building was demolished in 1969.

Principals

Period	Principal
1923-1928	George M. Wade (?-?)
1928-1953	Kristjan Bergthor Sigurdsson (1899-?)
1953-1954	Ernest Friesen Reimer (1909-1999)
1954-1955	Irvin Labovitch

Teachers

Teacher	Year(s)
Hilda Johanna Arnason	1950-1952
Ella Audrey Brown	1950-1956
Joan Alice Butler	1955-1956
E. C. Cameron	1927
S. Margaret Cantelon	1950-1951
Beatrice Arnetta Connon (c1903-1971)	1955-1956
Gwendoline Nettie May Corbett	1949
Clara Louise Dee	1952
J. H. Dunlop	1927
James Robert Hodge Forrester	1955-1956
Christina Fraser	1944-1945
Ruth Elizabeth Galbraith	1949-1952, 1955-1956
Lewis Erwin Gendron	1949-1950
Maud P. Hill	1924
Miss N. Kassian	1953-1954
L. Magnusson	1944-1945
Nita McArthur	1924
Neil McTavish (1902-1968)	1958-1959
Benjamin Franklin Olson	1950-1952
Lillian Eva Elizabeth Robertson	1954-1956
Alice Marie Rousseau	1952-1953
Dorothy Mary Sheldrake	1947-1948
Jennie E. Tait	1952-1955

Photos & Maps

The second Charleswood School building, known as the “Old Red Brick School”, in which the Charleswood municipal office was situated (1914) Source: Len Van Roon The second Charleswood School (February 1933) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7447, Album 4, Page 2. The second Charleswood School building being demolished (1969) Source: Len Van Roon Site Location (lat/long): N49.86164, W97.30104 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

Photos & Fragments of Charleswood History: A Collection of Historic Photographs of our Community and the Stories They Tell by Len Van Roon & Verna Van Roon, 2003, pages 67-71.

Charleswood School Registers, GR10356, Archives of Manitoba.

“Charleswood lists teachers,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 September 1954, page 3.

We thank Len Van Roon and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 January 2017

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