Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winkler Retarded School / Association for Retarded Children (851 Pembina Avenue, Winkler)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

Established at Winkler, the Winkler Association for Retarded Children (ARC) was founded in 1958, with classes for retarded (and later, also educable mentally handicapped) pupils being held in renovated basement space at Winkler School. Classroom space was temporarily rented at 198 Eighth Street for one year before this structure was built in 1963. It opened to students in March 1963, and was officially opened on 26 May 1963. The Garden Valley School Division took over responsibility for education of the students on 1 July 1967 and the facility continued operating under the ARC name until the summer of 1977. The premises was in use as a daycare centre at the time of an April 2019 site visit.

Principals

Period	Principal
1966-1968	William Braun

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1958-1959	Helen Loewen
1959-1960	Mary Epp
1960-1961	Mary Epp
1961-1962	Mary Epp
1962-1963	Mary Epp
1963-1964	Mary Epp
1964-1965	E. M. McRae, Anne Klassen (1965)
1965-1966	William Braun
1966-1967	William Braun, Viola Mildred Doell, Evelyn Janzen, Anne Klassen
1967-1968	William Braun, Evelyn Marguerite Janzen, Anne Klassen, Alfred Harry Kroeker (at Garden Valley Collegiate Institute)
1968-1969	William Braun, Evelyn Marguerite Janzen, Anne Klassen, Alfred Harry Kroeker (at Garden Valley Collegiate Institute)
1969-1970	William Braun (at Garden Valley Collegiate Institute), Viola Mildred Doell, Eleanor Gail Hildebrand
1970-1971	Viola Mildred Doell, Eleanor Gail Hildebrand
1971-1972	Viola Mildred Doell, Eleanor Gail Hildebrand
1972-1973	Viola Mildred Doell, Florence Marie Dyck
1973-1974	Viola Mildred Doell, Linda Anne Redekop
1974-1975	Viola Mildred Doell, Linda Anne Redekop
1975-1976	Viola Mildred Doell, Carolyn Anne Schellenberg
1976-1977	Viola Mildred Doell, Linda Giesbrecht, Helen Rempel (1976)

Photos & Coordinates

The former Winkler Retarded School building (November 2020) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.17802, W97.94441 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Winkler School No. 747 Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Winkler School (Special Education) No. 747 Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.

“School for retarded at Winkler,” Springfield Leader, 22 July 1958, page 4.

A History of Winkler, 1892-1973, by Frank Brown, 1973.

We thank Lorna Clark and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 24 November 2020

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