Historic Sites of Manitoba: McLeod School / McLeod Education Centre (530 McLeod Avenue, Winnipeg)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

Built in 1959, the elementary school opened within the East Kildonan School District. Its layout, designed by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Smith Carter Searle and Associates, consisted of an auditorium encircled by six classrooms and an office. The $120,000 school was opened officially on 19 November 1959 by School Board Chairman L. A. McMahon. It closed in June 1997 but the facility reopened in September 1997 as an Adult Education Centre for the River East Transcona School Division (RETSD). It has since also hosted the RETSDs Senior High Academic Re-entry Program (SHARP) as well as a daycare.

Principals

Period	Principal / Director
1959-1964	Louise May Hudson Dunnett (1903-1993)
1964-1966	Edmund Gerhard Wall
1966-1971	?
1971-1972	Norm T. Grywinski
1972-1984	?
?-?	George Wall
?-?	Val Kovachik (1933-2005)
?-?	Fred Enns
?-?	Helen McCracken
1984-1985	Chris Capper
1985-1991	?
1991-1992	Michael Quinn
1992-1997	?
1997-1999	closed
1999-2006	Robert Philip “Phil” McBurney

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1959-1960	Louise May Hudson (grade 3), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 1), Rose Marie Philippe (grades 4-5), Elsie Eugenie Pottruff (grades 5-6), Patricia Eleanor Seeley (grade 2)
1960-1961	June Doraine Gislason (grade 4), Louise May Hudson (grade 3), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 2), Rose Marie Philippe (grade 5), Elsie Eugenie Pottruff (grade 6)
1961-1962	Ronald Michael Bodner (grades 4-5), June Doraine Gislason (grade 2), Louise May Hudson (grade 3), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Elsie Eugenie Pottruff (grades 5-6)
1962-1963	Ronald Michael Bodner (grade 4), June Doraine Gislason (grade 2), Louise May Hudson (grade 3), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Elsie Eugenie Pottruff (grades 5-6), Diane Lorraine Scarr (grade 1)
1963-1964	Louise May Hudson Dunnett (grade 3), June Doraine Gislason (grade 4), Jessie Violet McDonald (grade 5), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Denis Eugene Roy (grade 6), Suzanna Thiesen (grade 2)
1964-1965	June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Beverly Anne McCallum (grade 2), Jessie Violet McDonald (grades 1-2), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Denis Eugene Roy (grade 6), Edmund Gerhard Wall (grade 5)
1965-1966	June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 1), Beverly Anne McCallum (grade 2), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Denis Eugene Roy (grade 4), Edmund Gerhard Wall (grade 5)
1966-1967	Beverly Anne McCallum Birch (grade 2), Rosaline Cameron (grade 4, April-June), Martha Fast (grade 4, September-March), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 1), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Nicola Maryanne Panchysak (grade 4), Denis Eugene Roy (grade 4), Virginia Faye Somers (grade 2), Frances Annie Vidal (ungraded), Patricia Catherine Wiens (grade 5)

Photos & Coordinates

The former McLeod School building (October 2019) Source: Nathan Kramer The former McLeod School building (October 2019) Source: Nathan Kramer Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.93234, W97.08068 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49

Historic Sites of Manitoba: McLeod School No. 239 (RM of Rockwood)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Donald McLeod School No. 2221 (270 Wallace Avenue, RM of East St. Paul)

Sources:

“School tender notice,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 December 1958, page 48.

“32 more classroms for E. K. Students,” [Unattributed newspaper clipping], 18 June 1959. [North East Winnipeg Historical Society]

“McLeod School opening Thursday,” [Unattributed newspaper clipping], November 1959. [North East Winnipeg Historical Society]

“McLeod School celebrates 25,” [Unattributed newspaper clipping], 1984. [North East Winnipeg Historical Society]

“How fast is too fast, councillor asks,” Winnipeg Free Press Weekly Northeast Editioin, 10 December 1991, page 5.

“McLeod School closure sends nurseries scrambling for space,” Winnipeg Free Press North/Northeast Community Review, 14 May 1997, page 3.

“River East School Division No. 9 [...],” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 September 1997, page D12.

“Announcing the opening of the River East School Division’s Adult Learning Centre,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 September 1997, Community Review Northeast page 3.

Manitoba School Records Collection, East Kildonan School District #14 (McLeod School) Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, River East School Division #9 (McLeod School) Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 18 December 2022

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