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Built during the spring and summer of 1965 to serve the growing needs of the Westwood area within the Kirkfield Park School District No. 30, and like the street on which it is located, this school commemorates local municipal official Joseph Henry Sansome. It was designed by architect John Mahan Venables of the firm of Pratt, Lindgren and Associates and constructed by the Arlington Builders Limited at a cost of $534,016.
The school opened for classes in November 1965 and an official opening ceremony, attended by Premier Duff Roblin, occurred on 19 May 1966. Initially serving mostly junior high grades during its first school year in operation (with a small elementary section), this Assiniboine North School Division facility was expanded into a full complement of elementary and junior high grades, and later further changed to only elementary grades within the St. James - Assiniboia School Division.
Period
Principal
1965-1969
Emile R. Dupas
1969-1980
Donald Taylor “Don” McKinnon (1926-2012)
1980-1981
James “Jim” Friesen
1981-1985
Thaddeus Edward “Ted” Witoski (1932-2014)
1985-1989
John “Jack” Carnegie (c1935-2023)
1989-1994
Wenda Engbrecht
1995
Nicholas “Nick” Yacheson
1995-1996
?
1996-2006
Peter Mingo
2006-2015
?
2015-2016
Patrick Betz
2016-2024
?
2024-2025
H. Hoch
Period
Vice-Principal
1965-1966
Nell Angela Ruchkall Ramsay (1925-2016)
1966-1967
?
1967-1969
John Charles Proudfoot (?-2013)
1969-1973
Victor Edwin Wieler
1973-1977
George Robson Dyker
1977-1979
Barron Rogers
1979-1981
Steve Hyrich
1981-1982
Betty Rae
1982-1985
Donald Timmerman
1985-1987
Betty Rae
1987-1988
?
1988-1990
Elenore Wieler
1990-1992
?
1992-1993
William “Bill” Cann
1993-1996
?
1996-1997
David William “Dave” Frye (1942-2020)
1997-1998
Gail Surman
1998-2005
?
2005-2006
Michelle Gashyna
2006-2024
?
2024-2025
C. Mavroudis
School Year
Teachers
1965-1966
Elementary Department: Edith Ruth King (grade 1), Herta Liselotte Peters (grade 2). Junior High Department: Ernest Alexander Baydock (grade 8), Mary Bilash (grade 7), Arthur Henry Bueckert (grade 8), William Burdeniuk (grade 8), Margaret Ruth Duggan (grade 7), Abram Friesen (grade 8), Tena Friesen (grade 8), Jean-Louis Hebert (grade 7), Nell Ramsay (grade 7), Walter Shura (grade 8), Ronald Victor Sigurdson (grade 7), Henry Unger (grade 7), Tanis Isobel Waters (grade 7)
1966-1967
Carole Jean Anderson (grade 3), Ernest Alexander Baydock (grade 8), Mary Bilash (grade 7), Arthur Henry Bueckert (grade 8), Margaret Ada Collins (grade 8), Muriel Jean Collins (grade 6), Edith Mae Denby (grade 8), Jannis Joan Frame (grade 2), B. Eleanor Graham (grade 3), Elvent John Haugen (grade 7), Jean-Louis Hebert (grade 8), Darwin Kenneth Howard (grade 8), Shirley Jarvis (grade 2, September-October), Harold Vinne Lindal (grade 8), Margaret Ann Lindal (grade 4), Mary MacHardy (grade 7, September-October), Dorothea Macdonald (grade 7, October-June), Eileen “Mary” Makush (grade 1), Philomena Loretta Mathews (grade 2, October-June), Shirley Geraldone Maurice (grade 1), Peggy Millard (grade 1 substitute, S. G. Maurice’s class), Kazumi Ohori (grade 4), Emma Irene Patterson (grade 5), Beverly Jean Schille (grade 1), Walter Shura (grade 8), Ronald Victor Sigurdson (grade 7), Shirley Tanguay (grade 7), Tanis Isobel Waters (grade 7), Ada D. C. Wiebe (grade 7)
1967-1968
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1968-1969
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1969-1970
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1970-1971
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1971-1972
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1972-1973
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1973-1974
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1974-1975
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1975-1976
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1976-1977
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1977-1978
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1978-1979
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1979-1980
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1980-1981
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1981-1982
Mrs. Audino, Mr. Bader, Miss Borger, Mr. Bueckert, Mr. Enns, Mr. Ewacha, Mrs. Gates, Mrs. Hamilton, Mr. Harapiak, Mrs. Houston, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Junghans, Mr. Ladyman, Mrs. Laham, Mr. Magel, Mrs. McMullen, Mr. Murrell, Mr. Negrych, Mrs. Paragg, Mr. Parry, Mr. Peters, Mrs. Pregnall, Mr. Preston, Mrs. Ross, Mr. Saint-Cyr, Mr. Shier, Miss Simpson, Mrs. Stefanson, Mrs. Stephen, Mr. Toews, Mr. Vandenberg, Mr. Woods
1982-2005
?
2005-2006
Susan Arnason, Diane Beggs, Heather Bell, Tracy Betz, Kyle Briggs, Christina Brophy, Janet Cassell, Kathryn Hearsum, Lizanne Lemay, Judith Lemon, Sharon Marshall, Aimee McDonald, Jim McMurtrie, Celia Mikkelson, Andrea Paul, Tanis Ryznar, Joseph Staska, Tony Szarkiewicz, Jocelyn Ward, Gary Wasilewski, April Waters
Among the other teachers of Sansome Junior High School was Leslie B. Ewacha.
Sansome School (May 2020)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Sansome School (September 2021)
Source: Nathan Kramer
Sansome School (September 2021)
Source: Nathan KramerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87599, W97.30633
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates
Manitoba Business: Arlington Builders Limited
“Truck backs over cyclist on ground,” Winnipeg Free Press, 11 July 1967, page 4.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
A Brief History of the Origin and Development of Sansome Junior High, St. James Assiniboia School Division, 1974.
“St. James-Assiniboia School Division No. 2,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 December 1994, page 70.
Obituary [Leslie Bohdan Ewacha], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 April 2020.
We thank Mari-Jean Nachtigall (St. James-Assiniboia School Division), Bill Cann, Arnold Reimer, Dorothy Young, and Victor Krenz for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 November 2024
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