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Built in 1959, the elementary school opened in the East Kildonan School District. The building, 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 Louis Albert McMahon.
The school closed in June 1997 but it was reopened in September 1999 as an Adult Education Centre for the River East School Division under the leadership of a Director. Since 2002, it had been part of the River East Transcona School Division (RETSD) and also hosted the RETSDs Senior High Academic Re-entry Program (SHARP) as well as a daycare.
Period
Principal
1959-1964
Louise May Hudson Dunnett (1903-1993)
1964-1968
Edmund Gerhard “George” Wall
1968-1970
Leslie Wilmot Wiley (1910-1996)
1970-1972
Norman Ted “Norm” Grywinski
1972-1973
Val Kovachik (1933-2005)
1973-1978
Alfred Henry “Fred” Enns
1978-1979
Ronald Arthur Ford
1979-1981
Alfred Henry “Fred” Enns
1981-1982
?
1982-1983
Helen McCracken
1983-1984
?
1984-1985
Christopher Ralph “Chris” Capper
1985-1991
?
1991-1992
Michael Quinn
1992-1997
?
1997-1999
closed
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)
1967-1968
Beverly Anne McCallum Birch (grade 2), Donna Margaret Cochrane (grade 2), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Ernest Peter Koslowsky (grade 5), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 1), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Denis Eugene Roy (French, itinerant), Walter William Schettler (grade 6), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Marlene Esther Thiessen (grade 3), Patricia Catherine Wiens (grade 5)
1968-1969
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Ernest Peter Koslowsky (grade 5), Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay (grade 1), Agnes Anne McIntyre (grade 1), Walter William Schettler (grade 6), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Marlene Esther Thiessen (grade 3), Irene Wiebe (grade 2), Sandra Reva Wohl (grade 4)
1969-1970
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Lynn Patricia Forsyth (grade 3), Sharon Lila Funk (grade 1), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Judy Vivian Hamm (grade 1), Walter William Schettler (grade 5), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 2), Katherine Unruh (kindergarten), Sandra Reva Wohl (grade 4)
1970-1971
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Nola Victoria Douglas (grade 3), Sharon Lila Funk (grade 1), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Judy Vivian Hamm (grade 1), Walter William Schettler (grade 5), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 2), Katherine Unruh (kindergarten), Sandra Reva Wohl (grade 4)
1971-1972
Shirley Jean Andrews (grade 5), Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Nola Victoria Douglas (grade 3), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Judy Vivian Hamm (grade 1), Walter William Schettler (grade 6), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 2), Evelyn Wiens (kindergarten), Sandra Reva Wohl (grade 4)
1972-1973
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Leona Frances Brown (grade 2), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Merle Elaine Pulyk (grade 3), Walter William Schettler (grade 6), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 2), Evelyn Wiens (kindergarten), Sandra Reva Wohl (grade 4)
1973-1974
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6, 0.5 relief teacher), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Leona Frances Brown (grade 2), Alfred Henry Enns (grade 6, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), June Doraine Gislason (grade 3), Joanne Lenore Hiebert (kindergarten), Gail Mary Lynn Krasicki (grades 4-5), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 1), Timothy Urchenko (grade 5)
1974-1975
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library, 0.5), Leona Frances Brown (grade 3), Denis Edward Druwe (grade 6), Gail Mary Lynn Krasicki (grade 4), Rosalyn Godria Peak (kindergarten), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 5), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 1), Elizabeth Margaret Webster (no grade, itinerant, 0.4 at McLeod School, 0.6 at Neil Campbell School)
1975-1976
Jocelyn Elaine Anning (grade 2), Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library, 0.5), Leona Frances Brown (grade 3), Denis Edward Druwe (grade 5), Roberta Polson (kindergarten), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 1)
1976-1977
Shirley Jean Andrews (relief teacher, 0.4), Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library, 0.5), Leona Frances Brown (grade 3), Denis Edward Druwe (grade 6), Ellen Darlene McLaren (kindergarten, 0.5), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 1), Robert John Thompson (grade 2)
1977-1978
Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Denis Edward Druwe (grade 5), Ellen Darlene McLaren (kindergarten, 0.5), Carol Elizabeth Mazur (Principal relief, 0.? at McLeod School, 0.? at Birds Hill School), Margrita Agnes Schroeder (grade 4), Mary Ruth Siemens (grade 3), Susan Jill Siwek (grade 1), Robert John Thompson (grade 2)
1978-1979
Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6, 0.5), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Denis Edward Druwe (grade 5), Ronald Arthur Ford (grade 6, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), Emma Marie Cecile Hogg (grade 3), Ellen Darlene McLaren (kindergarten, 0.5), Carol Elizabeth Mazur (grade 4), Mary Ruth Siemens (grade 3), Robert John Thompson (grade 2)
1979-1980
Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6, 0.5), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Kathryn Ruth Cole (grade 1), Alfred Henry Enns (grade 6, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), Emma Marie Cecile Hogg (grade 3), Ellen Darlene McLaren (kindergarten, 0.5), Carol Elizabeth Mazur (grade 4), Linda Diane Puttaert (physical education), Daniel Alexander “Dan” Sernyk (grade 5), Robert John Thompson (grade 2)
1980-1981
Odaguchi Atsumi (grade 6, 0.5), Kenneth Herbert Avery (library), Linda Diane Borodenko (resource, 0.3), Claire Ann Borody (grade 1), Alfred Henry Enns (grade 6, 0.5; Principal, 0.5), Ellen Darlene McLaren (kindergarten), Carol Elizabeth Mazur (grade 4), Patricia Piper (grade 3), Linda Diane Puttaert (physical education, 0.5), Daniel Alexander “Dan” Sernyk (grade 5), Robert John Thompson (grade 2)
Period
Director
1999-2006
Robert Philip “Phil” McBurney
2006-?
Jan Smith
?-2024
?
2024-2025
Jenn Harris
No information.
The former McLeod School building (October 2019)
Source: Nathan Kramer
The former McLeod School building (October 2019)
Source: Nathan KramerSite 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)
“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, 10 December 1991, Weekly Northeast Edition page 5.
“McLeod School closure sends nurseries scrambling for space,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 May 1997, North/Northeast Community Review page 3.
“River East School Division No. 9 [...],” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 September 1999, page D12.
“Announcing the opening of the River East School Division’s Adult Learning Centre,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 September 1999, Community Review Northeast page 3.
“Centre has success stories,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 August 2000, Community Review Northeast page 5.
Obituary [Daniel Alexander Sernyk], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 May 2020.
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
School division student yearly attendance reports (E 0758A), Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 December 2024
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