Historic Sites of Manitoba: Florence Nightingale School (31 Shaughnessy Street, Winnipeg)

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Formerly located on Shaughnessy Street between Pritchard and Manitoba avenues in Winnipeg, a one-storey dark red brick and Tyndall stone school, measuring 60 feet by 143.5 feet, was designed by local architects James Bertram Mitchell and John Nelson Semmens. It was built in 1920 by the Sutherland Construction Company at a cost of about $40,000. Named for nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the five-classroom structure was intended as the first phase of an eventual 16-room school. Given the close proximity of the Canadian Pacific Railway shops, it was assumed that children of railway workers would fill the school.

By 1922, it accommodated 211 students under the guidance of five teachers. In 1929, a one-storey brick addition measuring 33 feet by 56 feet was designed by local architect John Hamilton Gordon Russell. It was built by the Malcom Construction Company, with plumbing and heating subcontracted to Cotter Brothers Limited, at a cost of about $15,000. It added a sixth classroom. Between 1949 and 1950, a one-storey addition to the south side, designed by local architect William Anderson Martin, and built at a cost of about $75,000, added four more classrooms and brought the school up to ten classrooms. The new wing opened officially on 1 March 1950.

From September to February during the 1951-1952 school year, classes for the under-construction Shaughnessy Park School were also held here until they transferred over after its opened.

By June 2002, the building needed renovations that the Winnipeg School Board was unwilling to undertake, so the school closed, at which time its enrollment was 125 students. They were transferred to Lord Nelson School or Shaughnessy Park School. The former school building was demolished in early 2003 and private residences were built on the site.

Principals

Period

Principal

1920-1924

Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (1881-1980)

1924-1938

Nellie Harriet George (1892-1986)

1938-1944

Grace Ida Keith (1905-1995)

1944-1946

Charlotte Mass (1905-1972)

1946-1952

Inez Lillian Falardeau McCallum (1898-1979)

1952-1957

Hilda Kinney Ellis (1905-1987)

1957-1961

Frederick Charles Grusz (c1896-1966)

1961-1962

William Jardine “Bill” Woodrow (1910-2005)

1962-1965

Ernest Butterworth (1916-1975)

1965-1969

Alfred Thomas Phillips (1915-2010)

1969-1971

Alexander W. Shalay

1971-1973

Frank J. Froese

1973-1976

C. B. Thompson

1976-1979

Dennis Badiuk

1979-1980

Heather E. Sharman

1980-1990

Adam “Ed” Nazarko (1928-1993)

1990-1993

Thomas “Tom” Chan

1993-2002

Elma Martens

Teachers

School Year

Teachers

1920-1921

Elsie Christie (grades 3-4, January-June), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1, March-June), Irene Lee (grade 1, January-June), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6, January-June)

1921-1922

Elsie Christie (grades 3-4), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 1-2), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)

1922-1923

Elsie Christie (grades 3-4, September-December; grade 4, January-June), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 1-2, September-December; grade 2, January-June), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)

1923-1924

Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3, September-December; grade 3, January-June), Mary Robertson (grade 1, April-June), Evelyn B. Spearin (grade 2), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)

1924-1925

Elsie Christie (grades 3-4), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Irene Lee (grade 3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grade 2)

1925-1926

Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 3-4, January-June), Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 1-2), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Irene Lee (grades 3-4, September-December), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 2-3, September-December), D. J. Staples (grades 1-3, January-March; grades 2-3, April-June), Nena Tessler (grades 2-3, January-February & March-June)

1926-1927

Elsie Bowling (grades 2-3, November-June), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 3-4), Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1, September-January; grades 1-2, February-June), M. Evans (grades 2-3, September-October), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6)

1927-1928

Elsie Bowling (grades 1-2), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 3-4), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), M. Lurey (grade 1)

1928-1929

Elsie Bowling (grades 2-3), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 3-4), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), L. Cheyne (?*), M. Lurey (?*)

1929-1930

Elsie Bowling (grades 4-5), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 5-6), Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 3), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-4 “Special” February-June), Emma Jean Owens (grades 3-4), Josephine Riley (grade 2), Annie Wedro (grades 1-2)

1930-1931

Elsie Bowling (grade 4), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grade 5), Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 3), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Josephine Riley (grades 2-3), Annie Wedro (grades 1-2)

1931-1932

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 4), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Josephine Riley (grade 2), Annie Wedro (grade 3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grade 5)

1932-1933

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 4), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 2-3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5), J. Riley (?*)

1933-1934

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5, September-December; grade 5, January-June)

1934-1935

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)

1935-1936

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grades 1-2), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 2-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)

1936-1937

Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 1-2, September-December), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 2-5 “Special”), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 1-2, January-June), Annie Wedro (grades 2-3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)

1937-1938

Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 2-3), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-4 “Special”), Enid Naretta Orth (grade 1), Annie Wedro (grades 4-5)

1938-1939

Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 3-5), Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Margaret Robinson Montgomery (grades 2-3), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 1-2)

1939-1940

Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 4-5), Edith J. Haig (grades 1-2, May-June), Grace Ida Keith (grade 6, September-June; & grades 1-2, March), Florence B. Lang (grades 1-2, September-February & April-May), Margaret Robinson Montgomery (grades 2-3), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 2-3)

1940-1941

M. Collins (grade 1, September-October), Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4 “Special”, September-June; & grades 4-5, September-October), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 2-3, September-October; grades 1-2, November-June)

1941-1942

Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)

1942-1943

Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)

1943-1944

Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)

1944-1945

Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Charlotte Mass (grades 5-6), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)

1945-1946

Anna Cecilia Block (occupational), Evelyn Jane Bottrell (occupational), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Charlotte Mass (grades 5-6), Anne Nedotafko (occupational), Mary Alice Norman (occupational), Dorothy Jean Scott (grades 1-2)

1946-1947

Evelyn Jane Bottrell (occupational), Helen Fast (occupational), Mary Hrenchuk (grades 1-2), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Irene Christena Pelk (occupational), Nita Romanche (occupational)

1947-1948

Mary Hrenchuk (grade 1), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6), Grace Winnifred Mathers (grade 3), Norma Evalynne [Evalyne] Nordlinger (grade 2), Nita Romanche (grades 3-4), Mary Hrenchuk (?*), O. Schoales (?*)

1948-1949

Mabel Gwendolyn Best (grades 2-3), Tena E. Bauman (grade 1), M. Falk (grade 1, June), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2, September-January; grades 1-2, February-June), Mary Hrenchuk (grade 5), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Nita Romanche (grade 4, September-May; grades 3-4, May-June), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Verna Bernice Wiley Emberley (grade 1, February-June), Miss B. Brimmell (?*), Miss G. Kasperski (?*)

1949-1950

Violet May Bell (grade 4), Mabel Gwendolyn Best (grade 2), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Cecile [Cecilia] Bertha Legault (grade 1), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grades 3-4), Sophie Alice Mykytiuk (grade 1), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2), Mary Hrenchuk Pankiw (grade 5), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Miss T. Bauman (?*), Mrs. D. Henuset (?*), Miss A. Tulman (?*)

1950-1951

Margaret Ann Bastin (kindergarten, September-February), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Jewell Jewitt (grade ?, Septmeber-February), Cecilia Bertha Legault (grades 1-2), Ethel Marguerite Henderson (grade 5, February-June), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6; September-February; grade 6, March-June), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grade 4), Marion Evelyn McMorland (grade 1, September-February), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grades 2-3), Elizabeth Ogryzko (grades 3-4, September-February), Mary Hrenchuk Pankiw (grade 5, September-February), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Olive Jean Smith (grade 1)

1951-1952

Elementary department: Ethel Marguerite Henderson (grade 5), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Cecilia Bertha Legault (grades 1-2), Joanne Elizabeth Manson (kindergarten), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grade 4), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Olive Jean Smith (grade 1), Tina Elizabeth Watersman (grades 3-4), Miss D. J. Scarth (?*), Miss D. LaFleche (?*)

Intermediate department: S. J? Enns (grade 7 & industrial arts, September-November), Peter Raymond Mudery (grade 7 & industrial arts, November-June)

1952-1953

Elementary department: Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Mary Patricia Armstrong (grade 2), Rita Bohemier (grade 4, March-June), Joanne Elizabeth Coghill (kindergarten), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Marion Edith Henselwood (grade 4, September-March), Eleanor Irene Judt (grade 5), Gladys Violet Long (grade 1), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 1-2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Maryann Waldon (kindergarten), Mrs. J. Halley (?*), Miss M. Kiez (?*), Miss B. J. Lunney (?*), Miss V. Maksimow (?*), Mrs. F. Smith (?*)

Intermediate department: Peter Raymond Mudery (grade 7), Lloyd Sulymka (?*)

1953-1954

Elementary department: Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Mary Patricia Armstrong Bjarnason (grade 4, September-May), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Hazel Christine Dunning (grades 1-2, March-June), Grace Muriel Finlay (grade 4, June), Joan Margaret Halley (grade 2), Marion Kiez (grade 2), Miss Belva-Jean Lunney (grade 5), Verna Victoria Maksimow (grade 1), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Frances Bernice Smith (grades 1-2, September-February), Maryann Waldon (kindergarten)

Intermediate department: Lloyd Sulymka (grade 7)

1954-1955

Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Kathleen Harvison Barwick (grades 2-3, October-March), Loorraine Chamberlain (grade 5), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Renate Sybil Grosser (grade 6), Eugenia Husack (grade 2), Thoranna Kerr (grades 2-3, March-June), Katherine Elaine Klassen (grade 2), Verna Victoria Maksimow (grade 1), Miss A. Melnyk (grades 2-3, September-October), Phyllis Ivy Moore (grade 4), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Lara [Lona?] Senior (kindergarten)

1955-1956

Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Marjorie Doris Langille (grade 3), Margaret Jean McMaster (grade 5), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Lara [Lona?] Senior (kindergarten), Thelma “Shirley” Shaw (grade 2), Edmee Lorraine Silvester (grade 4), Aurise Louise Smith (grade 1), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)

1956-1957

Helene E. Balan (grade 1, April-June), Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Mary Theresa Van Den Bossche (grade 5), Thelma “Shirley” Shaw Flom (grade 2), Aurise Louise Smith Kondziela (grade 1, September-March), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grade 4), Yvonne Oliphant (kindergarten), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Edmee Lorraine Silvester (grade 5), Margaret G. Wiens (grades 1-2), Miss V. Friesen (?*)

1957-1958

Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Mary Theresa Van Den Bossche (grade 5), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irene Mae Howard (grades 1-2, September-December; grade 1, January-June), Elvira Jones (kindergarten), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grade 4), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Audrey Myrlene Popkes (grades 2-3), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)

1958-1959

Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irene Mae Howard (grade 1), Carmen Kolt (grades 5-6), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grades 3-4), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Audrey Myrlene Popkes (grade 2), Stella Prystupa (grade 2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Sam Sigurdson (grade 6), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)

1959-1960

Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4, September-November), Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4, November-June), Shirley Patricia Huntley (grades 4-5), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Stella Prystupa (grade 2), Marlene Elizabeth Unrau (grade 6), Helen Unruh (grades 2-3), Helen Wiebe (grades 1-2)

1960-1961

Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Lorraine Chamberlain (grade 5), Joan Martrude Dearborn (grades 2-3), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 5-6), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grades 4-5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Helen Wiebe (grade 1), Miss M. Unruh (?*)

1961-1962

Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Joan Martrude Dearborn (grades 1-2), Edmay [Edmae] Hogue (grades 5-6, March-June), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grade 4), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 5-6, September-March), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Leona Claire Scofield (grade 5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Helen Wiebe (grade 1), Mrs. L. M. Last (?*)

1962-1963

Ernest Butterworth (grade 6), Minerva Marie Coleman (grade 2), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grade 4), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grade 5), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Reena Edythe Rebeca Paisner (grade 3), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grades 3-4), Abram Wiebe (grade 5), Helen Wiebe (grade 1)

1963-1964

Marianne Katherine Becker (grades 2-3), June Katherine Henderson (grades 5-6), Jacqueline Alice Madden (grade 1), Marjorie Meder (grade 1), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 4-5), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Reena Edythe Rebeca Paisner (grade 3), Sherrill Mae Randall (grades 1-2), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Abram Wiebe (grade 6), Mrs. R. Kahana (?*)

1964-1965

James “Jim” Berryere (grade 6), Jean Marion Dixon (grade 2), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Donna Lesley Hay (grade 1), Lynda Elizabeth Klassen (grade 1), Roberta Elizabeth McClelland (grade 3), Marianne Katherine Becker Schieman (grades 4-5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Abram Wiebe (grades 5-6), Katherine Zacharias (grades 2-3), Miss F. Wiens (?*)

1965-1966

James “Jim” Berryere (grades 5-6), Jean Marion Dixon (grade 2, September-October), Patricia Ann Carr Elvers (grade 3, September-December), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Margaret Giesbrecht (grades 2-3, September-December; grade 3, January-June), Donna Lesley Hay (grade 1), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3, January-June), Klaus Horst Kelm (grade 6), Lyndia Elizabeth Klassen (grade 1), Leona Edith Peitsch (grade 5, November-June), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Miss F. Wiens, Katherine Zacharias (grades 3-4, September-December; grade 4, January-June)

1966-1967

James David “Jim” Ballard (grade 6), Margaret Anne Eccles (grade 1), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Joyce May Fletcher (grade 4), Margaret Giesbrecht (grades 1-2, September-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3), Marjorie Adele Macdonald (grade 1), Leona Edith Peitsch (grades 5-6), Marsha Janet Anne Peterman (grades 4-5), Eva Lorraine Taylor (grade 2), Sharon Jean Wieler (grade 4), Miss M. Biaun (?*), Miss L. Scott (?*), Miss L. Shewfelt (?*)

1967-1968

Kay Margaret Copley (grade 1), Maureen Alice Cutress (grade 5, January-June), Elisabeth Hedwig Dirks (kindergarten), Patricia Ann Doerning (grade 4), Helen Isobel Drysdale (grade 5, September-December), Margaret Anne Eccles (grade 1), Siegfried Wilhelm Grafe (grade 6), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3), Joyce May Fletcher Pawlett (grades 4-5), Anne Romanec (grade 3), Myrna Joan Thompson (grades 1-2), Jean Cheryl Yuill (grade 2), Miss L. Scott (?*), Miss P. Swallow (?*)

1968-1969

Mrs. K. Copley, Miss E. Dirks, Mrs. P. Doering, Mrs. M. A. Eccles, Siegfried Wilhelm Grafe (grade 6), Miss J. M. Ingaldson, Mrs. P. Kirk, Miss M. McDole, Mrs. J. M. Pawlett, Miss A. Romanec, Miss M. J. Thompson, Mrs. M. Wood

1969-2002

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Photos & Coordinates

Florence Nightingale School (1920)
Source: Winnipeg School Division

Florence Nightingale School (September 1994)
Source: City of Winnipeg, Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

Florence Nightingale School (September 1994)
Source: City of Winnipeg, Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

Florence Nightingale School (September 1994)
Source: City of Winnipeg, Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

Florence Nightingale School (September 1994)
Source: City of Winnipeg, Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

Florence Nightingale School (September 1994)
Source: City of Winnipeg, Historical Buildings and Resources Committee

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.92762, W97.17816
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

City of Winnipeg Building Permit 1581/1920, City of Winnipeg Archives.

“Winnipeg schools, No. 39—Florence Nightingale,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 November 1922, page 5.

“Empire Day to be observed in school classes,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 May 1924, page 1.

“Students swear allegiante to British Empire,” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 May 1924, page 2.

“Work on schools may cost $400,000,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 May 1929, page 4.

“Calling for erection of new school buildings,” Manitoba Free Press, 25 May 1929, page 21.

“Award contracts for mew school buildings,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 May 1929, page 6.

“Construction of four new schools; advanced figures,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 July 1929, page 20.

“Alderman want housing body aid to build addition to crowded school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 May 1949, page 6.

“Board to call for tenders for addition to school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 May 1949, page 3.

“The new wing of the Florence Nightingale School was officially opened Tuesday afternoon,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 March 1950, page 3.

“School posts filled,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 May 1973, page 74.

“School chiefs named,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 1979, page 18.

Agenda - Lord Selkirk - West Kildonan Community Committee, 12 November 2002.

“Good night, Florence Nightingale,” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 January 2003, page B2.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Winnipeg School District No. 1 (Florence Nightingale School) - Daily Registers, GR4537, Archives of Manitoba.

Winnipeg School Division: Celebrating One Hundred Fifty Years, 1871-2021 by Winnipeg School Division, 2021.

We thank the Winnipeg School Division and Murray Peterson for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Jordan Makichuk.

Page revised: 5 September 2025

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Period	Principal
1920-1924	Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (1881-1980)
1924-1938	Nellie Harriet George (1892-1986)
1938-1944	Grace Ida Keith (1905-1995)
1944-1946	Charlotte Mass (1905-1972)
1946-1952	Inez Lillian Falardeau McCallum (1898-1979)
1952-1957	Hilda Kinney Ellis (1905-1987)
1957-1961	Frederick Charles Grusz (c1896-1966)
1961-1962	William Jardine “Bill” Woodrow (1910-2005)
1962-1965	Ernest Butterworth (1916-1975)
1965-1969	Alfred Thomas Phillips (1915-2010)
1969-1971	Alexander W. Shalay
1971-1973	Frank J. Froese
1973-1976	C. B. Thompson
1976-1979	Dennis Badiuk
1979-1980	Heather E. Sharman
1980-1990	Adam “Ed” Nazarko (1928-1993)
1990-1993	Thomas “Tom” Chan
1993-2002	Elma Martens

School Year	Teachers
1920-1921	Elsie Christie (grades 3-4, January-June), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1, March-June), Irene Lee (grade 1, January-June), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6, January-June)
1921-1922	Elsie Christie (grades 3-4), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 1-2), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)
1922-1923	Elsie Christie (grades 3-4, September-December; grade 4, January-June), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 1-2, September-December; grade 2, January-June), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)
1923-1924	Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Irene Lee (grades 2-3, September-December; grade 3, January-June), Mary Robertson (grade 1, April-June), Evelyn B. Spearin (grade 2), Mary Alice Myrtle Whyte (grades 5-6)
1924-1925	Elsie Christie (grades 3-4), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Irene Lee (grade 3), Evelyn B. Spearin (grade 2)
1925-1926	Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 3-4, January-June), Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 1-2), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Irene Lee (grades 3-4, September-December), Evelyn B. Spearin (grades 2-3, September-December), D. J. Staples (grades 1-3, January-March; grades 2-3, April-June), Nena Tessler (grades 2-3, January-February & March-June)
1926-1927	Elsie Bowling (grades 2-3, November-June), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 3-4), Elsie Christie (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grade 1, September-January; grades 1-2, February-June), M. Evans (grades 2-3, September-October), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6)
1927-1928	Elsie Bowling (grades 1-2), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 3-4), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), M. Lurey (grade 1)
1928-1929	Elsie Bowling (grades 2-3), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 4-5), Eva Jean Davis (grades 3-4), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), L. Cheyne (?), M. Lurey (?)
1929-1930	Elsie Bowling (grades 4-5), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grades 5-6), Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 3), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-4 “Special” February-June), Emma Jean Owens (grades 3-4), Josephine Riley (grade 2), Annie Wedro (grades 1-2)
1930-1931	Elsie Bowling (grade 4), Sybil I. G. Caithness (grade 5), Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 3), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Josephine Riley (grades 2-3), Annie Wedro (grades 1-2)
1931-1932	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 4), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Josephine Riley (grade 2), Annie Wedro (grade 3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grade 5)
1932-1933	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Minnie Lurey (grade 4), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 2-3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5), J. Riley (?*)
1933-1934	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5, September-December; grade 5, January-June)
1934-1935	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grade 1), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)
1935-1936	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 2-3), F. R. Dashefsky (grades 1-2), Nellie Harriet George (grade 6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 2-5 “Special”), Annie Wedro (grades 3-4), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)
1936-1937	Lucy Mary Margaret Cheyne (grades 1-2, September-December), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 2-5 “Special”), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 1-2, January-June), Annie Wedro (grades 2-3), Angela Mary Wolfson (grades 4-5)
1937-1938	Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 2-3), Nellie Harriet George (grades 5-6), Luella Bertha Martin (grades 1-4 “Special”), Enid Naretta Orth (grade 1), Annie Wedro (grades 4-5)
1938-1939	Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 3-5), Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Margaret Robinson Montgomery (grades 2-3), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 1-2)
1939-1940	Elizabeth Stanbury Ferguson (grades 4-5), Edith J. Haig (grades 1-2, May-June), Grace Ida Keith (grade 6, September-June; & grades 1-2, March), Florence B. Lang (grades 1-2, September-February & April-May), Margaret Robinson Montgomery (grades 2-3), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 2-3)
1940-1941	M. Collins (grade 1, September-October), Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4 “Special”, September-June; & grades 4-5, September-October), Enid Naretta Orth (grades 2-3, September-October; grades 1-2, November-June)
1941-1942	Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)
1942-1943	Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 2-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)
1943-1944	Grace Ida Keith (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)
1944-1945	Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Charlotte Mass (grades 5-6), Anne Smigel (grades 1-2)
1945-1946	Anna Cecilia Block (occupational), Evelyn Jane Bottrell (occupational), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Charlotte Mass (grades 5-6), Anne Nedotafko (occupational), Mary Alice Norman (occupational), Dorothy Jean Scott (grades 1-2)
1946-1947	Evelyn Jane Bottrell (occupational), Helen Fast (occupational), Mary Hrenchuk (grades 1-2), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6), Jean Muriel McKinnon (grades 3-4), Irene Christena Pelk (occupational), Nita Romanche (occupational)
1947-1948	Mary Hrenchuk (grade 1), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6), Grace Winnifred Mathers (grade 3), Norma Evalynne [Evalyne] Nordlinger (grade 2), Nita Romanche (grades 3-4), Mary Hrenchuk (?), O. Schoales (?)
1948-1949	Mabel Gwendolyn Best (grades 2-3), Tena E. Bauman (grade 1), M. Falk (grade 1, June), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2, September-January; grades 1-2, February-June), Mary Hrenchuk (grade 5), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Nita Romanche (grade 4, September-May; grades 3-4, May-June), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Verna Bernice Wiley Emberley (grade 1, February-June), Miss B. Brimmell (?), Miss G. Kasperski (?)
1949-1950	Violet May Bell (grade 4), Mabel Gwendolyn Best (grade 2), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Cecile [Cecilia] Bertha Legault (grade 1), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grades 3-4), Sophie Alice Mykytiuk (grade 1), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2), Mary Hrenchuk Pankiw (grade 5), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Miss T. Bauman (?), Mrs. D. Henuset (?), Miss A. Tulman (?*)
1950-1951	Margaret Ann Bastin (kindergarten, September-February), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Jewell Jewitt (grade ?, Septmeber-February), Cecilia Bertha Legault (grades 1-2), Ethel Marguerite Henderson (grade 5, February-June), Inez Lillian McCallum (grades 5-6; September-February; grade 6, March-June), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grade 4), Marion Evelyn McMorland (grade 1, September-February), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grades 2-3), Elizabeth Ogryzko (grades 3-4, September-February), Mary Hrenchuk Pankiw (grade 5, September-February), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Olive Jean Smith (grade 1)
1951-1952	Elementary department: Ethel Marguerite Henderson (grade 5), Mary Virginia Irwin (kindergarten), Cecilia Bertha Legault (grades 1-2), Joanne Elizabeth Manson (kindergarten), Inez Lillian McCallum (grade 6), Mabel Gurinder McGowan (grade 4), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Olive Jean Smith (grade 1), Tina Elizabeth Watersman (grades 3-4), Miss D. J. Scarth (?), Miss D. LaFleche (?) Intermediate department: S. J? Enns (grade 7 & industrial arts, September-November), Peter Raymond Mudery (grade 7 & industrial arts, November-June)
1952-1953	Elementary department: Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Mary Patricia Armstrong (grade 2), Rita Bohemier (grade 4, March-June), Joanne Elizabeth Coghill (kindergarten), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Marion Edith Henselwood (grade 4, September-March), Eleanor Irene Judt (grade 5), Gladys Violet Long (grade 1), Norma Evalyne Nordlinger (grade 1-2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Maryann Waldon (kindergarten), Mrs. J. Halley (?), Miss M. Kiez (?), Miss B. J. Lunney (?), Miss V. Maksimow (?), Mrs. F. Smith (?) Intermediate department:* Peter Raymond Mudery (grade 7), Lloyd Sulymka (?*)
1953-1954	Elementary department: Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Mary Patricia Armstrong Bjarnason (grade 4, September-May), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Hazel Christine Dunning (grades 1-2, March-June), Grace Muriel Finlay (grade 4, June), Joan Margaret Halley (grade 2), Marion Kiez (grade 2), Miss Belva-Jean Lunney (grade 5), Verna Victoria Maksimow (grade 1), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Frances Bernice Smith (grades 1-2, September-February), Maryann Waldon (kindergarten) Intermediate department: Lloyd Sulymka (grade 7)
1954-1955	Robert William James Allan (grade 6), Kathleen Harvison Barwick (grades 2-3, October-March), Loorraine Chamberlain (grade 5), Helen Lily Duerkson (grade 1), Renate Sybil Grosser (grade 6), Eugenia Husack (grade 2), Thoranna Kerr (grades 2-3, March-June), Katherine Elaine Klassen (grade 2), Verna Victoria Maksimow (grade 1), Miss A. Melnyk (grades 2-3, September-October), Phyllis Ivy Moore (grade 4), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Lara [Lona?] Senior (kindergarten)
1955-1956	Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Marjorie Doris Langille (grade 3), Margaret Jean McMaster (grade 5), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Lara [Lona?] Senior (kindergarten), Thelma “Shirley” Shaw (grade 2), Edmee Lorraine Silvester (grade 4), Aurise Louise Smith (grade 1), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)
1956-1957	Helene E. Balan (grade 1, April-June), Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Mary Theresa Van Den Bossche (grade 5), Thelma “Shirley” Shaw Flom (grade 2), Aurise Louise Smith Kondziela (grade 1, September-March), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grade 4), Yvonne Oliphant (kindergarten), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Edmee Lorraine Silvester (grade 5), Margaret G. Wiens (grades 1-2), Miss V. Friesen (?*)
1957-1958	Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Mary Theresa Van Den Bossche (grade 5), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irene Mae Howard (grades 1-2, September-December; grade 1, January-June), Elvira Jones (kindergarten), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grade 4), Marie Peters (grade 2), Ronald Keith Pettapiece (grade 6), Audrey Myrlene Popkes (grades 2-3), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)
1958-1959	Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irene Mae Howard (grade 1), Carmen Kolt (grades 5-6), Grace Lynette Neufeld (grades 3-4), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Audrey Myrlene Popkes (grade 2), Stella Prystupa (grade 2), Hildur Emily Sandberg (grade 3), Sam Sigurdson (grade 6), Margaret G. Wiens (grade 1)
1959-1960	Margaret Laura Blocka (grade 4, September-November), Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Ruth Hanke (grade 5), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4, November-June), Shirley Patricia Huntley (grades 4-5), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Stella Prystupa (grade 2), Marlene Elizabeth Unrau (grade 6), Helen Unruh (grades 2-3), Helen Wiebe (grades 1-2)
1960-1961	Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Lorraine Chamberlain (grade 5), Joan Martrude Dearborn (grades 2-3), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 5-6), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grades 4-5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Helen Wiebe (grade 1), Miss M. Unruh (?*)
1961-1962	Stanley Bogucki (grade 6), Joan Martrude Dearborn (grades 1-2), Edmay [Edmae] Hogue (grades 5-6, March-June), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Mabel Irene Huska (grade 4), Grace Lynette Neufeld Kroeker (grade 3), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grade 4), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 5-6, September-March), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Leona Claire Scofield (grade 5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Helen Wiebe (grade 1), Mrs. L. M. Last (?*)
1962-1963	Ernest Butterworth (grade 6), Minerva Marie Coleman (grade 2), Irma Mae Howard (grade 1), Jeannine Anita LaRiviere (grade 4), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grade 5), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Reena Edythe Rebeca Paisner (grade 3), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grades 3-4), Abram Wiebe (grade 5), Helen Wiebe (grade 1)
1963-1964	Marianne Katherine Becker (grades 2-3), June Katherine Henderson (grades 5-6), Jacqueline Alice Madden (grade 1), Marjorie Meder (grade 1), Marlene Elizabeth Neustaedter (grades 4-5), Margaret Norris (kindergarten), Reena Edythe Rebeca Paisner (grade 3), Sherrill Mae Randall (grades 1-2), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Abram Wiebe (grade 6), Mrs. R. Kahana (?*)
1964-1965	James “Jim” Berryere (grade 6), Jean Marion Dixon (grade 2), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Donna Lesley Hay (grade 1), Lynda Elizabeth Klassen (grade 1), Roberta Elizabeth McClelland (grade 3), Marianne Katherine Becker Schieman (grades 4-5), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Abram Wiebe (grades 5-6), Katherine Zacharias (grades 2-3), Miss F. Wiens (?*)
1965-1966	James “Jim” Berryere (grades 5-6), Jean Marion Dixon (grade 2, September-October), Patricia Ann Carr Elvers (grade 3, September-December), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Margaret Giesbrecht (grades 2-3, September-December; grade 3, January-June), Donna Lesley Hay (grade 1), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3, January-June), Klaus Horst Kelm (grade 6), Lyndia Elizabeth Klassen (grade 1), Leona Edith Peitsch (grade 5, November-June), Stella Prystupa Uruski (grade 2), Mary Jean Walker (grade 4), Miss F. Wiens, Katherine Zacharias (grades 3-4, September-December; grade 4, January-June)
1966-1967	James David “Jim” Ballard (grade 6), Margaret Anne Eccles (grade 1), Merle Eyford (kindergarten), Joyce May Fletcher (grade 4), Margaret Giesbrecht (grades 1-2, September-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3), Marjorie Adele Macdonald (grade 1), Leona Edith Peitsch (grades 5-6), Marsha Janet Anne Peterman (grades 4-5), Eva Lorraine Taylor (grade 2), Sharon Jean Wieler (grade 4), Miss M. Biaun (?), Miss L. Scott (?), Miss L. Shewfelt (?*)
1967-1968	Kay Margaret Copley (grade 1), Maureen Alice Cutress (grade 5, January-June), Elisabeth Hedwig Dirks (kindergarten), Patricia Ann Doerning (grade 4), Helen Isobel Drysdale (grade 5, September-December), Margaret Anne Eccles (grade 1), Siegfried Wilhelm Grafe (grade 6), Jo-Anne Marie Ingaldson (grade 3), Joyce May Fletcher Pawlett (grades 4-5), Anne Romanec (grade 3), Myrna Joan Thompson (grades 1-2), Jean Cheryl Yuill (grade 2), Miss L. Scott (?), Miss P. Swallow (?)
1968-1969	Mrs. K. Copley, Miss E. Dirks, Mrs. P. Doering, Mrs. M. A. Eccles, Siegfried Wilhelm Grafe (grade 6), Miss J. M. Ingaldson, Mrs. P. Kirk, Miss M. McDole, Mrs. J. M. Pawlett, Miss A. Romanec, Miss M. J. Thompson, Mrs. M. Wood
1969-2002	?