Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ness Junior High School / Ness Middle School (3300 Ness Avenue, Winnipeg)

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Based on a design by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Pratt Lindgren and Associates for the Kirkfield Park School District No. 30, the structure was built at a cost of $537,929 by Taubensee Construction Company. The school took its name from the adjoining street which, in turn, commemorates Frank Ness, a local municipal official and long-serving the Secretary-Treasurer of the Rural Municipality of Assiniboia. The school opened to students in grades 7 and 8 on 1 September 1965 and an opening ceremony occurred on 10 November 1965. It later accommodated earlier grades too. The facility is now known as Ness Middle School.

Principals

Period	Principal
1965-1976	John Walter Atamanchuk (1930-2009)
1976-1981	Thaddeus Edward “Ted” Witoski (1932-2014)
1981-1987	Henry A. Wiebe
1987-1988	?
1988-1990	John Arnold “Jack” Elliott
1990-1993	?
1993-1994	Ernest Alexander Baydock
1994-1996	?
1996-1999	Fred Bilous
1999-2003	David James Bertnick (1947-2017)
2003-2006	Lynn Land
2006-2015	?
2015-2016	Tammy Baydock

Vice-Principals

Period	Vice-Principal
1969-1970	George Derenchuk
1970-1973	Roger Ernest Mitchell Cathcart (1937-2020)
1973-1975	Gordon Charles “Gord” Tovell (1939-2021)
1975-1978	Raymond Henry “Ray” Magel
1978-1979	John Carlyle
1979-1980	Ewart David Carruthers (1926-1992)
1980-1983	Glen Bennett
1983-1985	Mr. B. Rogers
1985-1986	Ross Narick
1986-1987	Fred Bilous
1987-1988	?
1988-1989	J. Nedecky
1989-1990	D. Barton
1990-1996	?
1996-1997	Irene Thiry
1997-1998	Lynn Land
1998-2005	?
2005-2006	Rex Ferguson-Baird

Teachers

School Year

Teachers

2005-2006

Grant Betz, Dina Coutris-Hrousalas, Nancy Findlay, Kristin Ford, Shaanna Heerah, Shelley Herbert, Angela Hillier, Marissa Hirsch, Brenda Huntington, Leanne Jamison, Whitney Jensen Kostiuk, Milton Jones, Meredith Keizer, Stacey Kent, John Kostiuk, Erica Lindgren, Christine Michalyshen, Shannon Nesbitt, Thomas Passey, Annelie Peters, Michael Riddell, Pamela Smith, Audrey Workman, Christopher Zant, Wayne Zelisney

Among the other teachers of Ness School were Judy A. Ward Demers (1965-1970) and Corrine Ellen Barrett (1983-?, French).

Photos & Coordinates

Ness Middle School (May 2008) Source: Dean Mullin Ness Middle School (July 2016) Source: Dean Mullin Grade 1 class at Ness School (circa 1967) Source: Allan Delang Ness Middle School (September 2021) Source: Nathan Kramer Ness Middle School (September 2021) Source: Nathan Kramer Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88782, W97.29611 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates

Manitoba Business: Taubensee Construction Company

Sources:

“Tender Ness Junior High School,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 August 1964, page 22.

“Registration dates,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 August 1965, page 3.

Obituary [Judy A. Demers], Winnipeg Free Press, 28 July 1970, page 24.

History of Ness Junior High, St. James Assiniboia School Division, 1974.

“Graduations [Corine Ellen Barrett],” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 July 1983, page 28.

“St. James - Assiniboine School Board,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 May 1993, page A11.

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

We thank Mari-Jean Nachtigall (St. James-Assiniboia School Division), Dean Mullin, Dorothy Young, Allan Delang, and Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 2 November 2024

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