Historic Sites of Manitoba: Phoenix School No. 1528 (111 Alboro Street, Headingley)

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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

Period	Principal
1923-1924	Helen M. Anderson
1924-1935	?
1935-1940	Mary Crain (1906-1997)
1940-1941	John F. Partridge
1941-1945	Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (1906-1984)
1945-1956	?
1956-1965	Michael B. Biluk
1965-1966	Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (1907-1992)
1966-1967	Douglas G. Moore
1967-1969	Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (1918-1983)
1969-1974	Nell Angela Ruchkall Ramsay (1925-2016)
1974-1977	?
1977-1982	Merrill Dalmer Groff (1933-2023)
1982-1985	Nicholas “Nick” Yacheson
1985-1989	Wenda Engbrecht
1989-1990	William Francis “Bill” Moore (1938-2022)
1990-1996	?
1996-1998	Dianne Snider
1998-2004	?
2004-2006	Gail Surman
2006-2015	?
2015-2016	Linda Daniels

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

Phoenix School (no date) by E. D. Parker Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 134. Phoenix School commemorative plaque (April 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.86685, W97.40995 denoted by symbol on the map above

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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