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This school across the street from Dakota Collegiate was originally known as the Dakota Elementary School. It was built during the winter of 1959-1960, with staff and students temporarily quartered at Hasting School during that period. Following a 1970-1971 expansion, based on designs of Ward Macdonald & Associates, it was renamed for former St. Vital Reeve Victor Mager.
The school is operated by the Louis Riel School Division.
Period
Principal
1960-1968
Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (1903-2001)
1968-1973
Grace Darling Cormode Watson (1910-2005)
1973-c1975
?
c1975
Harold David Christie (1927-2019)
c1975-?
?
?-1992
Gordon Ptashnick
1992-?
Brenda Yost
?-2016
?
2016-?
Karen Magnusson
?-2019
?
2019-?
Troy Reinhardt
Period
Vice-Principal
?-1992
Marlene Murray
1992-1997
John Charles Douglas “Jack” Fraser
1997-2016
?
2016-?
Nicole Mager
?-2019
?
2019-?
Sheila Lynch-Mondor
School Year
Teachers
1959-1960
Wreatha Allen (grade 2), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Helen Bergen (grade 3), Margaret Brown (grade 3), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 4), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Irene Oliver (grade 2)
1960-1961
Wreatha Allen (grade 2), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Helen Bergen (grade 3), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 5), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Elizabeth Menzel (grade 1)
1961-1962
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Eldeen Henderson (grade 2), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 5), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Elizabeth Menzel (grade 5)
1962-1963
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 6), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Elizabeth Menzel (grade 5), Susan Ward (grade 2)
1963-1964
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Elizabeth Menzel Chesko (grade 5), Pat Cibula (grade 2), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 6), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4)
1964-1965
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Grace Hartley (grade 2), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 6), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Alvina Thiessen (grade 5)
1965-1966
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Grace Hartley (grades 2-3), Dolores Horn (grade 5), Jennie Ellen “Jean” Kerr (grade 6), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grades 1-2), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), ? (grade 1)
1966-1967
Wreatha Allen (grade 3), Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1), Dolores Horn (grade 5), Margaret Ann Huta (grade 2), Virginia Macartney (grade 6), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4)
1967-1968
Verna Louise Bendall (grade 1, 1967; grades 1-2, 1968), Elsie Helen Dyck (grade 5), Margaret Ann Huta (grade 2), Theresa Marion Kuryk (grade 3), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Mary Edith Smith (music), Mary Anne Sydor (grade 6)
1968-1969
Elsie Helen Dyck (grade 5), Helen Feniuk (grade 1), Margaret Ann Huta (grade 2), R. Komzak (grade 6), Theresa Marion Kuryk (grade 3), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4)
1969-1970
Elsie Helen Dyck (grade 5), Margaret Ann Huta (grade 2), R. Komzak (grade 6), Theresa Marion Kuryk (grade 3), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (grade 1), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), M. Moir (grade 1)
1970-1971
Suzanne Marie Bibaud (grade 2), Mabel Eileen Fair (grade 1), Alvin Edward Friesen (grade 5), Theresa Marion Kuryk (grade 3), Audrey Jacqueline Cheetham McGregor (kindergarten), Blande Annette Matthews (grade 4), Titus R. Premdas (grade 6), Henriette Cecile Raine (kindergarten, 1971), Sharon Mae LaRue Steeves (special education)
Victor Mager School (October 2015)
Source: Nathan KramerSite Location (lat/long): N49.83612, W97.10959
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Victor Magar [Victor Mager] (1849-1930)
“Staggered classes in many schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 August 1959, page 3.
“Letters to the editor [Overcrowded School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 October 1959, page 44.
“Wading in St. Vital,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 April 1960, page 3.
“Tender notice - Addition and alterations to Dakota Elementary School,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 June 1970, page 14.
Obituary [Audrey Jacqueline McGregor], Winnipeg Free Press, 8 August 2009, page C13.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), GR1196, Archives of Manitoba.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
We thank Le Centre du patrimoine of La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, John Buermeyer, and Jack Fraser for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 29 November 2021
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