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Built in 1921 by the Fort Garry School District No. 2047 (which also constructed and operated the General Steele School nearby), General Byng School No. 1 opened on 24 October 1921. It became part of the Fort Garry Municipal School District No. 2361 in 1959 then, later that year, part of the Fort Garry School Division. The building hosted the Fort Garry High School until the senior grades were moved to the new Viscount Alexander High School in 1949.
A new four-room school to host grades 4 to 7, General Byng School No. 2, was designed by the architectural firm of Prain and Ward, was erected on the grounds in 1956. An eight-classroom addition made in 1959 was also designed by the firm.
The original building was still standing as of the early 1990s.
Period
Principal
1921-1923
Gertrude Hill
1923-1944
William John Robinson (1882-1947) District Principal
1944-1946
Alexander McLaren Baxter (1907-1994)
1946-1949
Richard “Dick” Moore (1908-1996)
1949-1965
Katherine Caroline Weber (1912-1986)
1965-1970
?
1970-1971
Mr. Latter
1971-1974
?
1974-1982
Fred Olson
1982-1985
Mr. Teed-Grott
1985-1987
?
1987-1989
Val Burch
1989-1990
Rick Martin
1990-1991
Val Burch
1991-1993
Rick Martin
1993-1995
?
1995-1998
Peter Francis
1998-2004
Alan Geske
2004-2005
Gerard Gill
2005-2011
Darren Juby
2011-?
Judy Pirnie
?-2022
?
2022-present
Tracey Groening
Period
Vice-Principal
1930-1931
Sarah Ann Sproat (1885-1976)
1931-1937
None
1937-1941
Henry Charles “Charlie” Avery (1909-1992)
1941-1944
Alexander McLaren Baxter (1907-1994)
1944-1949
?
1949-1962
?
1962-1965
Alice Helen Leggitt
1965-1970
?
1970-1971
Mr. Hildebrand
1971-1982
?
1982-1985
Val Burch
1985-1987
?
1987-1989
Rick Martin
1989-1990
Mr. R. C. Harvey
1990-1991
Rick Martin
1991-1992
Lorraine Evelyn Henley (1944-2018)
1992-1993
Dave Benson
1993-1995
?
1995-1996
Clair Panchard
1996-1998
Gerard Gill
1998-2002
Lisa Boles
2002-2005
Darren Juby
2005-2008
Lorraine Compayre
2008-2011
Gail Walker
2011-2013
Dawn Thompson
2013-2014
?
2014-2015
Janet Tomy
2015-?
Susan LaSpina
School Year
Teacher
1930-1931
Mary Annette Elizabeth Romaniuk (grade 9), Sarah Ann Sproat (grades 10-11)
1931-1937
High School grades not offered
1937-1938
Henry Charles Avery (grade 9), June Burns Wheelans (grades 10-11)
1938-1939
Henry Charles Avery (grade 9), June Burns Wheelans (grades 10-11)
1939-1940
Henry Charles Avery (grade 9), June Burns Wheelans (grades 10-11, wife of Peter Spowart Bisset)
1940-1941
Henry Charles Avery (grade 9), Roberta Elizabeth McDougall (grades 10-11)
1941-1942
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Alexander McLaren Baxter (grade 11)
1942-1943
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Alexander McLaren Baxter (grade 11)
1943-1944
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Alexander McLaren Baxter (grade 11)
1944-1945
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Alexander McLaren Baxter (grade 11)
1945-1946
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Alexander McLaren Baxter (grade 11)
1946-1947
Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Richard Moore (grade 11)
1947-1948
Elsie Claire Dewar (grade 10), Richard Moore (grade 11), Esther Sanders (grade 9)
1948-1949
Elsie Claire Dewar (grade 10), Richard Moore (grade 11), Alfred Leslie Stevens (grade 9)
After 1949
School Year
Teacher
1921-1922
Gertrude Hill (grades 1-3, wife of Mr. E. Hill), Allison Tait Usher (grades 4-6)
1922-1923
Gertrude Hill (grades 1-4), Allison Tait Usher (grades 4-9)
1923-1924
Gertrude Hill (grades 1-2, September-March), Jean McIntyre (grades 3-5), Mrs. Marshall (grades 1-2, May), Iva J.? Stewart (grades 1-2, April & June), Jeannette Turnbull (grades 1-2, March)
1924-1925
Jean McIntyre (grades 3-5), Iva Jettie Stewart (grades 1-3)
1925-1926
Margaret B. Rixon (grades 3-5), Mary Alice Tanney (grades 1-3)
1926-1927
Margaret B. Rixon (grades 3-5), Elsie M. Kirkland (grades 1-2)
1927-1928
Margaret B. Rixon (grades 3-5), Nelanis Boyd Vaux (grades 1-2, September-December; grades 1-3, January-June))
1928-1929
Etelka [Etella?] Beatrice McQuarrie (grades 4-6), Aileen M. Donald (grades 1-3)
1929-1930
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 3-5)
1930-1931
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 3-5)
1931-1932
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 2-4)
1932-1933
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 2-4)
1933-1934
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 2-4)
1934-1935
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 3-4)
1935-1936
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 3-4)
1936-1937
Margaret Jean Gammon (grades 1-2), Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 3-4)
1937-1938
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1938-1939
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1939-1940
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1940-1941
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1941-1942
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1942-1943
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1943-1944
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1944-1945
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1945-1946
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1946-1947
Gertrude Lillian Manchester (grades 1-2)
1947-1948
Jeanne Marie D’Heilly (grade 1)
1948-1949
?
1949-1950
Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Mabel Grace Ryall (grade 3), Christine Sveinson (grade 1), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 6), Maureen Westgate (grade 2)
1950-1951
Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Mabel Grace Ryall (grade 3), Christine Sveinson (grade 1), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grades 5-6), Margaret Dorothy Tully (grades 2-3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 7), Maureen Westgate (grade 2)
1951-1952
Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Jessie Innes (grade 5), Mabel Grace Ryall Pounder (grade 3), Christine Sveinson (grade 1), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grades 6-7), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 8), Maureen Westgate (grade 2)
1952-1953
Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Jessie Innes (grade 5), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6), Wyona Bernice Tolton (grade 1), Katherine Caroline Weber (grades 7-8), Maureen Westgate (grade 2)
1953-1954
Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Anne Marline Haskins (grade 1), Jessie Innes (grade 5), Hazel Joyce Saunders (grade 1), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 7), Maureen Westgate (grade 2)
1954-1955
Rose Berezowecki (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Jessie Innes (grade 5), Olive Elizabeth Morris (grade 2, November-June), Hazel Joyce Saunders (grade 1), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 2), Maureen Westgate (grade 2, September-October)
1955-1956
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Lillian Anna Catharina Ellgring (grade 2), Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Jessie Innes (grade 5), Hazel Joyce Saunders (grade 1), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 3)
1956-1957
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Elizabeth Gertrude “Betty” Brown (grade 5), Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 4), Carol Lorraine Longley (grade 2), Jane Agnes Nisbet (grade 6), Hazel Joyce Saunders (grade 1), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 1, September-December), Ruth Elizabeth Schwartz (grade 1, January-June), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 3)
1957-1958
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Elizabeth Gertrude “Betty” Brown (grade 5), Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 4), Carol Lorraine Longley (grade 2), Jane Agnes Nisbet (grade 6), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 5), Ruth Elizabeth Schwartz (grade 1, January-June), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 3)
1958-1959
Elizabeth D. Alexander (grade 6, April-June), Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Elizabeth Gertrude “Betty” Brown (grade 5), Ruth Elizabeth Schwartz Canning (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 4), Alvina Kroeker (grade 1), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Carol Lorraine Longley (grade 2), Jane Agnes Nisbet (grade 6, September-March), Abe Penner (grade 7), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 5), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 4)
1959-1960
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Elizabeth D. Bevis (grade 6), Elizabeth Gertrude “Betty” Brown (grade 5), Anita R. Campeau (grade 7), Ruth Elizabeth Schwartz Canning (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Mary C. Maycock (grade 1), Abe Penner (grade 8), Edith E. Ross (grade 1), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 5), Ernest Halhad Shelvey (grade 7), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 4), Carol Lorraine Longley Whitworth (grade 2)
1960-1961
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), Elizabeth Gertrude “Betty” Brown (grade 5), Ruth Elizabeth Schwartz Canning (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Mary C. Maycock (grade 1), Joseph John Rebizant (grade 6), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 5), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 4), Carol Lorraine Longley Whitworth (grade 2)
1961-1962
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), Brenda Ann Davies (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Marian Ruth Nelson (grade 1), Shirley Anne Schellenberg (grade 5), Olive Lorraine Schroeder (grade 5), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 4), Carol Lorraine Longley Whitworth (grade 2), Ruth Hildegarde Wiens (grade 1)
1962-1963
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), Lynne Kathleen Bay (grade 5), George Capar (grade 6), Gisele Emma Houde Daudet (grade 2), Brenda Ann Davies (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Marjorie Hope Laak (grade 2), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Mildred Grace Loewen (grade 6), Ada Beatrice Long (grade 4), Marian Ruth Nelson (grade 1), Lilly Isobel Remple (grade 1), Shirley Anne Schellenberg (grade 5), Christine Sveinson (grade 3)
1963-1964
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), Lynne Kathleen Bay (grade 5), George Capar (grade 6, at old school building), Gisele Emma Houde Daudet (grade 1), Brenda Ann Davies (grade 1), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Katherine Elizabeth “Kayrdquo; Kirk (grades 4-5), Marjorie Hope Laak (grade 2), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 6), Mildred Grace Loewen (grade 6), Ada Beatrice Long (grade 4, September-December), Lillian Mary Paul (grade 3), Shirley Anne Schellenberg Rempel (grade 5), Lilly Isobel Remple (grade 1), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Joan Eleanor Tostowaryk (grade 4, January-June)
1964-1965
Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), George Capar (grade 7, September-October), Diane Lois Chiurka (grade 5), Gisele Emma Houde Daudet (grade 1), Brenda Ann Davies (grade 1), Elsie Enns (grade 6), Hilda Justina Friesen (grade 4), Margaret Froese (grade 7, January-June), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grade 7), Katherine Elizabeth “Kayrdquo; Kirk (grade 5), Alice Helen Leggitt (grade 7), John David McNabb (grade 6), Lillian Mary Paul (grade 2), Shirley Anne Schellenberg Rempel (grades 5-6), Lilly Isobel Remple (grade 1), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Shevaun Sayer Washington (grade 2), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 7, November-December), Linda Eileen Weitzel (grade 4)
1965-1966
Noel David Ackland (grade 8), Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Jean Barker (grade 4), Stanis Ann Bridges (no grade, January-June), Mary Barbara Dahl (grade 1), Brenda Ann Davies (grade 1), Hildegard Helen Doerksen (grade 3), Elsie Enns (grade 5), Margaret Froese (grade 5), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), Gerald William Hildebrand (grade 6), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grade 8), Wallace John Jaspar (grade 9), Henry Klassen (grade 9), Shirley Betty Lawrence (no grade, January-June at old school building), Lenore Lydia Marvin (grade 1), John David McNabb (no grade, January-June), Elaine Olchowecki (grade 7), Lillian Mary Paul (grade 2), Shirley Anne Schellenberg Rempel (grade 4, February-June), Lilly Isobel Remple (grade 1), Mary Josephine Sanders (grade 5), Lillian Jane Strand (grade 6), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Shevaun Sayer Washington (grade 2), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 8), Linda Eileen Weitzel (grade 4, September-January), Marlene Joan Weselak (grade 7)
1966-1967
Noel David Ackland (grade 8), Letitia Milburn Armitage (grade 2), Shirley Ann Aylan-Parker (grade 6), Jean Barker (grade 4), Leo Carriere (grade 9), Mary Barbara Dahl (grade 1), Hildegard Helen Doerksen (grade 3), Lorna Margaret Drawson (grade 4, January-June), Elsie Enns (grade 5), Margaret Froese (grade 5), Eva Marie Gould (grade 3), George Holowka (grade 9), Lillian Mary Paul Hampton (grade 2; September-December), Gerald William Hildebrand (no grade), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grade 8), Joyce Kroeker (grade 2, January-June), Lenore Lydia Marvin (grade 1), Sheila Louise Melanchuk (grade 2), Judith Frances Oborne (grade 4, September-December), Marion Anne-Marie Pengilley (kindergarten), Robert William Piper (grade 8), Lilly Isobel Remple (grade 1), Lotte Zena Rosenstock (grade 6), Lillian Jane Strand (grade 6), Christine Sveinson (grade 3), Josephine Anne Vaselenak (grade 7), Bertha Mae Walsh (kindergarten, at old school building), Shevaun Sayer Washington (grade 2), Katherine Caroline Weber (grade 4), Marlene Joan Weselak (grade 7), Violet Marie Woods (grade 9)
1967-1968
?
1968-1969
?
1969-1970
?
1970-1971
Mrs. Boyko (grade 2), Mrs. Carr (French), Mrs. Fast (grade 6), Mrs. Godard (grade 7), Mr. Hildebrand (math, science), George Holowka (grades 8-9), Ms. Klapprat (grade 3), Mr. Menzies (grades 7-8), Mrs. Peterson (grade 4), Mrs. Pratt (library), Sister Rita (grade 1), Miss Rogers (grade 2), Miss Turek (kindergarten), Mrs. Wiens (grade 5), Mr. Wyatt (grade 6)
General Byng School No. 1 (circa 1922)
Source: Winnipeg Tribune, 9 September 1922, page 5.
Portion of a Winnipeg fire insurance map showing the positions of General Byng School No. 1 and General Byng School No. 2 (1960)
Source: ManitobaMapsSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.84342, W97.15967
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors / MCM Architects
Historic Sites of Manitoba: General Steele School (757 Lyon Street, Winnipeg)
[General Byng school opening], Winnipeg Tribune, 18 October 1921, page 6.
“Fort Garry’s school system shows great development,” Winnipeg Tribune, 9 September 1922, page 5.
“Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 July 1923, page 16.
“Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 October 1923, page 19.
“News from suburbs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 September 1925, page 6.
“Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Tribune, 29 June 1929, page 27.
“News of the suburbs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 31 August 1929, page 6.
Marriage registrations [Alison Tait Usher, Jean McIntyre], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“United Church at Fort Garry marks birthday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 November 1932, page 6.
“News of the suburbs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 September 1934, page 23.
“News of the suburbs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 29 August 1936, page 34.
“Plan higher grades in General Byng School, Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 July 1937, page 4.
“News of the suburbs [Fort Garry],” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 August 1937, page 30.
“Fort Garry notes,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 September 1939, page 4.
“Fort Garry schools name teaching staffs,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 September 1939, page 23.
[Photo caption; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Spowart Bisset], Winnipeg Tribune, 8 July 1940, page 9.
“Open house set at Fort Garry’s new high school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 1949, page 3.
“20,420 pupils for suburbs,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 August 1956, page 3.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
“Tenders for General Byng School addition,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 March 1959, page 43.
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
“South Winnipeg schools are switching principals,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 July 2004, page S3.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fort Garry School District No. 2047 (General Byng School) Daily Registers, GR10356, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fort Garry School Division No. 5 (General Byng School) Daily Registers, GR10356, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fort Garry School District No. 2047 (General Byng School) Daily Registers, GR10469, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
MCM Architects Inc. fonds, 1912-1994, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Gus Watanabe for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Susan LaSpina.
Page revised: 11 February 2024
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