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The Phoenix School District was established formally in April 1910 and a wood frame school building operated at this site (in what is now the Rural Municipality of Headingley) from 1910 to 1963. Increasing student enrollment necessitated the construction of a second classroom in 1920. A third classroom was added in 1938.
In 1956, the district consolidated with the Headingley School District No. 9 to form the Headingley Consolidated School District No. 9. After the earlier schoolhouse was condemned in 1962, a new school building was erected in 1963, designed by the architectural firm of Zunic and Sabkowich and built by Hoffman Construction. In 1967, the district joined the Assiniboine North School Division and, two years later, the St. James-Assiniboia School Division. The earlier Phoenix School building is commemorated by a monument erected in 1999 by the Headingley Historical Society.
Principals
Teachers
Among the early teachers of Phoenix School were Miss Edith J. Cann (1910-1913), Miss Margaret A. Taylor (1913-1920, 1927-1928), Miss Rossie M. Channon (1920-1922), Miss Kellington (c1920), Miss Mary Shepherd (1921-1922), Mrs. Hazel Laycock (1924-1926), Miss Clara Rindfleisch (1924-1925), L. O. Long (1925-1926), Gladys Craig (1928-1929), Miss C. Josephine Dean (1931), Miss Norah P. Crook (1931-1932), Miss Kathleen Rust (1932), and Miss L. W. Bradley (1933-1935).
School Year |
Teachers |
1937-1938 |
Myrtle Alexandra Wastle Aitchison (1906-1985) |
1938-1939 |
? |
1939-1940 |
Myrtle Alexandra Wastle Aitchison (1906-1985), Meta Marion Kelly |
1940-1941 |
? |
1941-1942 |
Miss Margaret A. Taylor |
1942-1943 |
Miss Margaret F. Girard |
1943-1944 |
? |
1944-1945 |
? |
1945-1946 |
Miss Wilma Brusch |
1946-1947 |
Evelyn Lord Ammeter, Miss M. E. Hack |
1947-1948 |
Miss Margaret A. Taylor |
1948-1949 |
? |
1949-1950 |
? |
1950-1951 |
Mrs. S. B. Thorsteinson |
1951-1952 |
? |
1952-1953 |
? |
1953-1954 |
Melvin Bell, Mrs. S. B. Thorsteinson |
1954-1955 |
Melvin Bell, Mrs. S. B. Thorsteinson |
1955-1956 |
Miss Florence M. Hogue |
1956-1957 |
Mrs. Viola Dufresne, Mrs. A. Prefontaine, John P. Robertson |
1957-1958 |
Dorothy Levine, Victoria Oliynek, Elsie Oryschak, Pauline Pentilchuk |
1958-1959 |
Mrs. D. Coates, Miss Elsie Oryschak |
1959-1960 |
Iris Pasosky |
1960-1961 |
Marilyn Gray, Iris J. Pasosky, Rita Van Blaricom |
1961-1962 |
Bonnie Cormode, Henry B. Esau, Rita Van Blaricom, Kathleen Wilson |
1962-1963 |
Ernie Baycock, Henry B. Esau, Betty L. Janzen, Kathleen Wilson |
1963-1964 |
Kathleen D. Allen, Ernie Baydock, Henry B. Esau, Viola Sinclair, Mrs. Betty Toews |
1964-1965 |
Kathleen D. Allen, Ernie Baydock, Henry B. Esau, Viola Sinclair, Mrs. Betty Toews |
1965-1966 |
Martin Fydirchuk, Gladys G. Galbraith, Cheryl Munday, Viola Sinclair, Mrs. Betty Toews |
1966-1967 |
Jean Birch, Mrs. Wenda Brant, Mrs. Ethel M. Dobbyn, Mrs. Ellen Finnegan, Gladys G. Galbraith, Mrs. Ethel M. Park, Mrs. Linda J. Woods |
1967-1968 |
Miss Barbara Anning, Mrs. Mary Blacquiere, Wenda Brant, Mrs. Ellen Finnegan, Mrs. Judith Gislason, Sylvia K. Reagh, David A. Smith |
1968-1969 |
Miss Barbara Anning, Mrs. Judith Gislason, Jim Komenda, Mrs. Lynn Maciejko, Mrs. Paulette Marsolois, Miss Carol McCaughan |
1969-1970 |
Mrs. Monique Allard, Mrs. Sylvia Allard, Mrs. Judith Gislason, Mrs. Barbara Kiesman, Mrs. Paulette Marsolois, Mrs. Elsie Peters, Miss Linda Shakespeare |
1970-1971 |
Mrs. Sylvia Allard, Miss Jacquelyn Heeney, Mrs. Barbara Kiesman, Mrs. Linda Krentz, Miss J. Otke, Mrs. Elsie Peters, Miss Linda Silverman, Mrs. Joanne Wiley |
1971-1972 |
Mrs. Sylvia Allard, Barry Campbell, Mrs. Norma Cleverley, Miss Jacquelyn Heeney, Mrs. Barbara Kiesman, Mrs. Elsie Peters, Diane Palmer Trudeau, Mrs. Joanne Wiley, Margery Zasitko Johnson |
1972-1973 |
Mrs. Sylvia Allard, Barry Campbell, Mrs. Donalda Donaldson, Mrs. A. Hatfield, Miss Jacquelyn Heeney, Miss Irene Schmidt, Diane Palmer Trudeau |
1973-1974 |
Mrs. Sylvia Allard, Barry Campbell, Mrs. A. Hatfield, Miss Jacquelyn Heeney, Miss Irene Schmidt, Diane Palmer Trudeau |
1974-2005 |
? |
2005-2006 |
Heather D. Adams, Katina Andranistakis, Kerry Freund, Scott Mikkelson, Theresa Reimer, Kara Ross, Lisa White |
Photos & Coordinates
See also:
Manitoba Business: Zunic and Sobkowich
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Headingley School No. 9 (Headingley)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Headingley School No. 9 (Headingley)
Sources:
History of Robert Browning School: 1963-1974, St. James Assiniboia School Division, 1974.
History of Headingley & Phoenix Schools: 1856-1974 by Mrs. N. Ramsay, St. James Assiniboia School Division, 1974.
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.
We thank Larry Taylor, Nathan Kramer, and Dorothy Young for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 September 2023
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