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Construction of this North Kildonan school began In October 1950 in the recently formed McIvor School District No. 2323. The school was located at the eastern side of Birds Hill Road (now Molson Street) at corner of McLeod Avenue, across from the former Rosewell School. It was formally opened on 22 January 1951 by North Kildonan mayor James Thomson Findlay Aitken. Also present at the ceremonies were School District Chairman W. de Graff, Secretary-Treasurer E. Tomlinson, Chief School Inspector Clifford Knox Rogers, Dept of Education official Bernice Scott Bateman, Trustee W. Parasiuk, and architect Edgar Prain of the Winnipeg firm of Prain and Ward. Students came from students from both one-room Rosewell School and McIvor School. The frame and stucco structure hosted grades 1-8 and was built at a cost of $38,000. It featured an automatic fire alarm, oil burner, new furnishings and two classrooms along with a basement auditorium.
Built with future expansion in mind, the building was enlarged an additional two classrooms in 1955, based on designs by Prain and Ward. In October 1963, local voters approved a further two-room expansion at a cost of $30,000. The brick and masonry expansion at the south side of building was completed in 1964.
The school was closed by the River East School Division at the conclusion of the 1979 Spring term and students in the elementary grades were transferred to Emerson Elementary School. The building is now partially metal-clad and in service as the Maintenance Office for the River East Transcona School Division.
Period
Principal
1950-1951
Jacob “Jake” Krueger (1925-2001)
1951-1952
Orest Stephen Roscoe (1932-2016)
1952-1957
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (1908-2007)
1957-1959
Anton Ed Yaworski
1959-1962
Antoine Rene “Tony” Gagne
1962-1979
Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (?-2009)
School Year
Teachers
1950-1951
Jacob “Jake” Krueger (grades 1-8, 1950; grades 4-8, 1951), Marybelle Jean McLaurin (grades 1-3, 1951)
1951-1952
Marybelle Jean McLaurin (grades 1-3), Orest Stephen Roscoe (grades 4-9)
1952-1953
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (grades 6-9), Sarah Klassen (grades 1-2), Edith Neufeld (grades 3-5)
1953-1954
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (grades 6-10), Sarah Klassen (grades 1-2), Edith Neufeld (grades 3-5)
1954-1955
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (grades 6-10), Sarah Klassen (grades 1-2), Nan C. Yurkiw (grades 3-5)
1955-1956
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (grades 9-11), Sarah Klassen (grades 3-5), Eva Lorraine Robinson Taylor (grades 1-2), Anton Ed Yaworski (grades 6-8)
1956-1957
Sarah Ann Thompson “Helen” Hunt (grades 9-11), Gladys Rozecki (grades 5-6), Eva Lorraine Robinson Taylor (grades 1-2), Edith Eleanor Wiens (grades 3-4), Anton Ed Yaworski (grades 7-8)
1957-1958
Nicholas Andrusko (grades 7-8), Luise Regehr Krickham (grades 1-2), James M. Richtik (grades 5-6), Edith Eleanor Wiens (grades 3-4), Anton Ed Yaworski (grades 9-11)
1958-1959
Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Sylvia Parasiuk (grades 7-8), Edith Eleanor Wiens (grades 3-4), Anton Ed Yaworski (grades 9-11), Alfred Zyolor “Alf” Zorniak (grades 5-6)
1959-1960
Ruth Ann Ferby (grades 5-6), Antoine Rene “Tony” Gagne (grades 7-8), Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Florence Wicklow (grades 3-4)
1960-1961
Antoine Rene “Tony” Gagne (grades 7-8), Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Sylvia Nell Melnyk (grades 5-6), Florence Wicklow (grades 3-4)
1961-1962
Antoine Rene “Tony” Gagne (grades 7-8), Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Sylvia Nell Melnyk (grades 5-6), Florence Wicklow (grades 3-4)
1962-1963
Albert E. Aline (grades 6-7), Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Sylvia Nell Melnyk (grades 4-5), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Florence Wicklow (grades 3-4)
1963-1964
Albert E. Aline (grades 6-7), Donna Eleanor Fargey (grades 4-5), Anna Margaret Huculak (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Florence Wicklow (grades 3-4)
1964-1965
Donna Eleanor Fargey (grades 4-5), Patricia Gossen (grades 3-4, 1964), Walter Hanuschak (grades 6-7), Anna Margaret Huculak (grade 1), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Anne K. Voth (grades 3-4, 1965), Florence Wicklow (grade 2)
1965-1966
Donna Eleanor Fargey (grades 4-5), Georgena Gaye Miko (grades 6-7), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Penny Schwartz (grade 1), Florence Wicklow (grade 2), Verna Claire Workman (grades 3-4)
1966-1967
Donna Eleanor Fargey (grades 4-5), Edwin Ernest Hill (grades 6-7), Gloria Susan Kowal (grade 1), Georgena Gaye Miko (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grades 7-8), Florence Wicklow (grade 2), Verna Claire Workman (grades 3-4)
1967-1968
Grace Elaine Clark (grade 2), Donna Eleanor Fargey (grade 5), Betty Eleanor Loewen (grade 1), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 6), Carole Phyllis Schmidt (grade 3), Verna Claire Workman (grade 4)
1968-1969
Grace Elaine Clark (grade 2), Mary Lega (grade 5), Betty Eleanor Loewen (grade 1), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 6), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Carole Phyllis Schmidt (grade 3)
1969-1970
Betty Eleanor Loewen (grade 1), Carole Phyllis Schmidt Martens (grade 3), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Vivian Darlene Wiebe (grade 2)
1970-1971
Venetia Elinore Harvey (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grade 1), Lorraine Grace Joan Lindner (grade 3), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Judith Katherine Sobovitch (grade 2)
1971-1972
Venetia Elinore Harvey (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grade 1), Lorraine Grace Joan Lindner (grade 3), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Judith Katherine Sobovitch (grade 2)
1972-1973
Carrie M. Garson (resource), Venetia Elinore Harvey (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grade 1), Lorraine Grace Joan Lindner (grade 2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Fraya Surella Zaidman (grade 3)
1973-1974
Terrence Brian Gillis (grade 6), Gayle Carolyn Fabbri (grade 3), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grade 1), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Twila Jess Mae Wilson (grade 2)
1974-1975
Gayle Carolyn Fabbri Boychuk (grade 3), Janet Marie Butler (relief), Terrence Brian Gillis (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grade 1), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Twila Jess Mae Wilson (grade 2)
1975-1976
Gayle Carolyn Fabbri Boychuk (grades 2-3), Janet Marie Butler (relief), Terrence Brian Gillis (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4)
1976-1977
Gayle Carolyn Fabbri Boychuk (grades 2-3), Janet Marie Butler (relief), Terrence Brian Gillis (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Mary Rose Nazerawich (grade 4), Regina Cornelia Tatlock (resource)
1977-1978
Gayle Carolyn Fabbri Boychuk (grades 2-3), Janet Marie Butler (relief), Helen E. Derksen (music), Terrence Brian Gillis (grade 6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 5), Judith Katherine Ann Sobovitch (grades 3-4), Regina Cornelia Tatlock (resource)
1978-1979
Gayle Carolyn Fabbri Boychuk (grades 2-3), Janet Marie Butler (relief), Helen E. Derksen (music), Terrence Brian Gillis (grades 5-6), Phyllis Rose Koricki (grades 1-2), Anthony “Tony” Mikolayenko (grade 4)
New Rosewell School (no date)
Source: Fiftieth anniversary of the Mennonite settlement in North Kildonan, 1928-1978, compiled and edited by Karl Fast. [Legislative Library of Manitoba, F5649.N67 Fif]
The former New Rosewell School building (September 2017)
Source: Nathan Kramer
The former New Rosewell School building (September 2017)
Source: Nathan KramerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.92352, W97.05183
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rosewell School (McLeod Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rosewell School (RM of Roland)
“Rosewell School officially opened in North Kildonan,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 January 1951, page 3.
“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 March 1955, page 28.
“Recount set for N. Kildonan,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 October 1963, page 6.
Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Mines and Technical Services, 62H/14h East Kildonan (1969).
“Review to determine fate of elementary schools,” Winnipeg Free Press 14 January 1992, Weekly Northeast Edition page 5.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, New Rosewell School District No. 2323 - Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 17 April 2024
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