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Named for community activist Louis Lavallee and the extended Lavalee family, this school district was formed in May 1910 as a part of the St. Boniface South / Mager School District No. 989 and a two-room schoolhouse was erected along St. Anne’s Road at the corner of De La Giclais Avenue, on Lot 50 in the Rural Municipality of St. Vital. In 1946, the original building was replaced with a new eight-classroom structure at the northwest corner of St. Anne’s Road and Sterling Avenue. In April 1959, the district was incorporated into the St. Vital Municipal School District No. 2374 and quickly became the St. Vital School Division. During the mid 1960s, the school shared a Principal with another nearby school.
The facility was later replaced at a different site by the present Lavallee School. The older building was leased for $1 to the Children’s Home of Winnipeg for use as a learning centre for emotionally disturbed children. The building was demolished when Bishop Grandin Boulevard was constructed.
Period
Principal
1920-1921
Beatrice Thibodeau
1921-1923
Cordelia E. Toupin
1923-1924
Bessie Sinclair Crawford
1924-1926
Philip Markus Petursson (1902-1988)
1926-1928
John Neriah Sturk (1874-1939)
1928-1935
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain Smith (c1908-1968)
1935-1937
Merlin Victor Borden Newton (1909-1987)
1937-1938
Thomas Edwin “Ed” Sweet
1938-1940
Charles Middlemiss “Jock” Langford (1902-1946)
1940-1942
Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1942-1952
Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere [Labossiere] (1915-1999)
1952-1954
Borislaw Nicholas Bilash (1929-2021)
1955-1956
Marcel Philippe
1955-1956
Raymond Arthur Joseph “Ray” Labelle (c1931-1981)
1956-1964
Frederick “Fred” Daciw
1964-1965
Gordon George “Gord” Newton [Co-Principal with Minnetonka School]
1965-1966
Walter “Wally” Stoyko [Co-Principal with Minnetonka School]
1966-1967
Walter “Wally” Stoyko
1967-1968
Simon “Cy” Nimchuk (1933-2020)
1968-1969
Robert McKinley Millman
1969-1970
Simon “Cy” Nimchuk (1933-2020)
1970-1971
Simon “Cy” Nimchuk (1933-2020) [Co-Principal with Woodlawn School]
1971-1972
?
1972-1973
Robert McKinley Millman
1973-1974
Wilhelm Josef “Bill” Treidler (c1932-2019)
After 1974
Period
Vice-Principal
1959-1964
Simon “Cy” Nimchuk (1933-2020)
1964-1974
None
Among the early teachers at Lavallee School were Anne Seney? [Savoy?] (Fall 1910 - Spring 1911), Lucia Seney? [Savoy?] (Fall 1911 - Spring 1911), M. W. MacCoshan? (Fall 1911), Marie Lagamodiere (Spring 1912), G. A. Lariviere (Fall 1912 - Fall 1914), and Rosa Johnson (Spring 1915 - Spring 1920).
School Year
Teachers
1920-1921
Odile Parent (grades 1-2, Beatrice Thibodeau (grades 3-7)
1921-1922
Jeanne Blanc (grades 1-3, August-December), Marie Jeanne Pelletier (grades 1-3, January-June), Cordelia E. Toupin (grades 4-8)
1922-1923
Marie Jeanne Pelletier (grades 1-3), Cordelia E. Toupin (grades 7-10, August-December; grades 4-9, January-June), Maria Toupin (grades 4-6, August-December)
1923-1924
Bessie Sinclair Crawford (grades 5-9), Therese Lemoine (grades 1-4)
1924-1925
Louise Benoit (grades 1-4, January-June), Therese Lemoine (grades 1-3; August-December), Philip Markus Petursson (grades 4-9)
1925-1926
Louise Benoit (grades 1-4), Philip Markus Petursson (grades 5-9)
1926-1927
Louise Benoit (grades 1-4), John Neriah Sturk (grades 5-8)
1927-1928
Louise Benoit (grades 1-4), John Neriah Sturk (grades 5-8)
1928-1929
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 5-8), Anna Delima Todd (grades 1-4)
1929-1930
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 5-8), Anna Delima Todd (grades 1-4)
1930-1931
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 4-8), Anna Delima Todd (grades 1-4)
1931-1932
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 4-8), Anna Delima Todd (grades 1-4)
1932-1933
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 4-8), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4)
1933-1934
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 4-8), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-3)
1934-1935
Irene Marie Eleanor Bain (grades 5-8), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4)
1935-1936
Merlin Victor Borden Newton (grades 5-9), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4)
1936-1937
Merlin Victor Borden Newton (grades 5-9), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4)
1937-1938
Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4), Thomas Edwin “Ed” Sweet (grades 6-9)
1938-1939
Charles Middlemiss Langford (grades 5-9), Yvonne Sicotte (grades 1-4)
1939-1940
Charles Middlemiss Langford (grades 5-9), Irene Anne Marie Sicotte (grades 1-5)
1940-1941
Hilda Louise Cloutier (grades 1-5), Willard Ervin Rife (grades 6-9)
1941-1942
Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 1-5), Willard Ervin Rife (grades 6-9)
1942-1943
Hilda Louise Cloutier (grades 1-4, January-June), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 5-9), Dorothy Elizabeth McKay (grades 1-4, August-December)
1943-1944
Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 5-9), Elizabeth Mary Landry (grades 1-4, January-June), Margarette Billings McNabb (grades 1-4, August-June)
1944-1945
Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 4 & 6-9), Elizabeth Mary Landry (grades 1-3 & 5, August-June), Annie Wenden (grades 1-3, August-June)
1945-1946
Myrtle Cook (grades 1-4, August-June), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 5-9), Annie Wenden (grades 1-3, August-June)
1946-1947
Myrtle Cook (grades 1 & 3), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 7-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grades 4-6), Annie Wenden (grades 2-3)
1947-1948
Myrtle Cook (grades 1-2), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 7-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grades 4-6), Annie Wenden (grades 3-4)
1948-1949
Myrtle Cook (grades 1-2), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 8-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grades 6-7), Patricia Joan Scorah (grade 5), Annie Wenden (grades 3-4)
1949-1950
Myrtle Cook (grade 1), Agnes Rose Goulet (grades 2-3), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 7-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grade 6), Patricia Joan Scorah (grade 5), Annie Wenden (grades 3-4)
1950-1951
Myrtle Cook (grades 1-2), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 7-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grades 6-7), Patricia Joan Scorah Stanger (grades 4-5), Annie Wenden (grades 2-3)
1951-1952
Myrtle Cook (grades 1-2), Alexandrine Marie Juliette LaBossiere (grades 8-9), Antoinette Marie St. Onge (grades 6-7), Patricia Joan Scorah Stanger (grades 4-5), Annie Wenden (grades 2-3)
1952-1953
Borislaw Nicholas Bilash (grade 9), Dorothy Agnes Bilash (grades 7-8, August-December), Myrtle Cook (grade 1), Mary Mildred Hollama (grades 5-6), Shevaun Sayer Smith (grades 7-8, January-June), Patricia Joan Scorah Stanger (grades 3-4), Annie Wenden (grades 2-3)
1953-1954
Borislaw Nicholas Bilash (grades 8-9), Sonia Daciw (grades 3-4, ?-December & January-June), Lucille Elise Desaulniers (grades 4-5, January-June), Margaret Beth Duggan (grades 6-7), Therese E. Gelinas (grades 4-5, August-December), Shevaun Sayer Smith (grade 1), Mrs. A. M. Valour? (grades 3-4, August-?) Annie Wenden (grade 2)
1954-1955
Sonia Daciw (grade 3), Lucille Elise Desaulniers (grades 5-6), Margaret Beth Duggan (grade 7), Anna Catherine Kosman (grades 4-5), Marcel Philippe (grades 8-9), Annie Wenden (grade 2), Stephanie Winnifred Wilson (grades 1)
1955-1956
Ernest Raymond Cicierski (grades 6-7), Georgina A. Crawford (grades 5-6), Sonia Daciw (grade 4), Raymond Arthur Joseph Labelle (grades 8-9), Sylvia Saurette (grade 1), Annie Wenden (grade 2), ? (grade 3)
1956-1957
Ernest Raymond Cicierski (grades 7-8), Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 9), Sonia Daciw (grade 5), Shirley Grace Drewry (grades 1-2), Therese Marie Gobiel (grades 2-3), Anna Catherine Kosman (grades 3-4), Rollande A. Lauze (grades 6-7)
1957-1958
Suzanne Basset (grade 1), L. Ed. Bournier (grades 6-7), Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 9), Sonia Daciw (grade 5), Shirley Demarcke (grade 3), Shirley Grace Drewry (grade 2), Muriel T. Miessner (grades 3-4), Simon Nimchuk (grades 7-8)
1958-1959
Agnes M. Briere (grade 1), Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 9), Sonia Daciw (grade 5), Shirley Demarcke (grade 3), Marguerite Mary DeRoo (grade 4), Shirley Irene Drewry (grade 2), C? Kroll? (grades 6-7), Simon Nimchuk (grades 7-8)
1959-1960
Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 8), Sonia Daciw (grade 6), Shirley Demarcke (grade 3), Mabel Eileen Fair (grade 1), Mary Elizabeth Gilroy (grade 4), Joyce Marian Kroeker (grade 2), Simon Nimchuk (grade 7), Carol Ann Lorette Paille (grade 5)
1960-1961
Laurette Aline Alarie (grade 4), Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 7), Sonia Daciw (grade 5), Shirley Aline Desrosiers (grade 3, August-March), Inez Duguay (grade 3, April-June), Mabel Eileen Fair (grade 1), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 2, August-December), Joyce Marian Kroeker (grade 2), Simon Nimchuk (grade 6), Beverley Joan Paull (grade 2, January-June)
1961-1962
Frederick “Fred” Daciw (grade 6), Sonia Daciw (grade 5), Shirley Aline Desrosiers (grades 2-3), Donald Arni Flatt (grade 7), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 1), Simon Nimchuk (grade 8), Beverley Joan Paull (grades 2 & 4)
1962-1963
Kristine Margaret Church (grades 1-2), Catherine Elias (grades 2-3), Donald Arni Flatt (grade 8), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Rudy Neufeld (grade 5), Simon Nimchuk (grade 9), Beverley Joan Paull (grade 4), Larry Ole Torske (grade 6)
1963-1964
Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Catherine Elias (grade 3), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 2), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Rudy Neufeld (grade 5), Simon Nimchuk (grade 8), Beverley Joan Paull (grade 4), Larry Ole Torske (grade 6)
1964-1965
Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 2), Marjorie Doreen Hotel (grade 5), Catherine Elias Larsen (grade 3), James Mitchell McArthur (grade 8), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 6), Lena Sawatzky (grade 4)
1965-1966
Marjorie Doreen Hotel Bobbie (grade 5), Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 2), Catherine Elias Larsen (grade 3), James Mitchell McArthur (grade 8), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 6), Lena Sawatzky Pauls (grade 4)
1966-1967
Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 2), Catherine Elias Larsen (grade 3), James Mitchell McArthur (grade 8), Patricia Leona McMurchy (grade 5), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 6), Lena Sawatzky Pauls (grade 4)
1967-1968
Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Patricia Leona McMurchy (grade 5), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 8), Mary Helen Nolin (grade 3), Elmer Henry Penner (grade 6), Heather Dale Potter (grade 4), Heather Diane Stewart (grade 2)
1968-1969
Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Beverley Janette Fehr (grade 3), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 5), Robert John Hyslop (grade 8), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Elmer Henry Penner (grade 6), Heather Dale Potter (grade 4), Heather Diane Stewart (grade 2)
1969-1970
Jo-Anne Marie Skakun (grade 1), Heather Diane Stewart (grade 2), Lylah Christine Myers (grade 3), Heather Dale Potter (grade 4), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 5), Elmer Henry Penner (grade 6), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 8)
1970-1971
Jo-Anne Marie Skakun (grade 1), Maria Emma McDougall Brabant (grade 1), Heather Diane Stewart (grade 2), Lylah Christine Myers (grade 3), Heather Dale Potter (grade 4), Margaret Mary Healey (grade 5), Elmer Henry Penner (grade 6), Edith Adeline Matthisen (grade 7), Robert McKinley Millman (grade 8)
1971-1972
Patricia Louise Chaput (grades 3-4), Karen Elaine Hykaway (grades 1-2), Frances Elizabeth Mainland (kindergarten), John Edwin Toews (grades 5-6)
1972-1973
Patricia Louise Chaput (grade 3), Ned Newton Collins (grade 2), Karen Elaine Hykaway (grade 1), Frances Elizabeth Mainland (kindergarten), Terrilyn Amelia Pangman (grade 4), Allan Frank Prouten (resource), John Edwin Toews (grade 6), Lynne Margaret Watts (grade 5)
1973-1974
Patricia Louise Chaput (grade 3), Murray Gollub (grade 4), Shirley Doreen Mitchell (kindergarten), Terrilyn Amelia Pangman (grade 5), Allan Frank Prouten (resource), Karen Elaine Romanoff (grade 1), Susan Lynne Threlfall (grade 1), John Edwin Toews (grade 6), Mary Candace Yanchyshyn (grade 2)
After 1974
Architectural drawings for the ground floor of the first Lavallee School (1926)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Plans and Shop Drawings (GS 0100), Lavallee School, 1926 (GR 3125).
The first Lavalee School (circa 1915)
Source: St. Vital Museum
The second Lavallee School building (1970s)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Winnipeg, St. Anne’s Road, No. 23/70Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.83746, W97.09351
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lavallee School / Ecole Lavallee (505-511 St. Anne’s Road, Winnipeg)
Memorable Manitobans: Louis Lavallee (1852-1935)
“St. Vital council to urge new car line,” Manitoba Free Press, 7 January 1922, page 17.
“Wanted - two lady teachers for Lavallee School District No. 1538,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 August 1923, page 14.
“Rogers’ meeting,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 August 1926, page 2.
“Lavallee School District,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1946, page 5.
Street Map of Winnipeg, The H. M. Gousha Company, 1961.
“‘Misunderstanding’ says school board,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 November 1963, page 3.
“21 truants return to school,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 February 1964, page 51.
“Leasing of school okayed,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 September 1974, page 54.
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.
Obituary [Thomas Edwin Sweet (1906-1985)], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 August 1985, page 59.
Obituary [Sonia Lisowecki Daciw], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 October 2021.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Junette Taylor for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 January 2025
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