Historic Sites of Manitoba: Woodsworth School (King Edward Street, Winnipeg)

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The Woodsworth School is thought to have been established before the 1908 founding of the Brooklands School District No. 1440, which it joined. It was a two-classroom wood frame structure located at the northeast corner of the intersection between Rosser Road (now King Edward Street) and Geyser Avenue (now Selkirk Avenue). On account of local financial concerns held by some district ratepayers, an unsuccessful attempt was made in 1924 to split this single school away from the Brooklands School District and create the independent Woodsworth School District.

The Woodsworth School continued operation until closing in the summer of 1963, a month after which (in July 1963) the former school building was mistakenly damaged by workers intending to tear down the nearby Wentworth School. It remained vacant and was still standing the following year, at which point the most of the 4.5 acres it stood upon (though not the school structure itself) were offered for sale by the Brooklands School District. While the structure was later removed from the site, the Woodsworth name was carried over to the nearby Woodsworth Park.

Principals

Period	Principal
1911-1963	See Brooklands School District No. 1440

Teachers

Period	Teachers
Before 1921	See Brooklands School District No. 1440
1921-1922	Montague Shore (grades 4-8), Bertha A. Smith (grades 1-3)
1922-1923	Fanny Maud Leeming (grades 1-3), Montague Shore (grades 4-8)
1923-1924	Fanny Maud Leeming (grades 1-3), Eva M. Underwood (grades 4-7)
1924-1925	Edith P. Parkes (grades 1-4), John N. Sturk (grades 5-8)
1925-1926	H. M. McTavish (grades 1-4), John N. Sturk (grades 5-8)
1926-1927	John Hiram Armstrong (grades 5-8), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-4)
1927-1928	John Hiram Armstrong (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1928-1929	Frank Bowman (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1929-1930	Frank Bowman (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1930-1931	Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Doris McKendry (grades 1-3)
1931-1932	Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Doris McKendry (grades 1-3)
1932-1933	Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Joyce McKinnell (grades 1-3)
1933-1934	Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-3)
1934-1935	Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-3)
1935-1936	Robert Holloway (grades 5-8), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-4)
1936-1937	Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-6)
1937-1938	Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-5)
1938-1939	Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-5)
1939-1940	Robert Holloway (grades 5-8), Elizabeth Jean Lothian (grades 1-4)
1940-1941	Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-4), Robert Holloway (grades 5-8)
1941-1942	Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-4), Robert Holloway (grades 5-8)
1942-1943	Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), Cecilia Wood Sneddon (grades 1-3)
1943-1944	Mary Ellen Elliott (grades 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8)
1944-1945	Pauline Marie Capot (grades 1-3, September-December), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), S. Lytle (grades 1-3, January-June)
1945-1946	Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), Elizabeth Joan “Betty” Thom (grades 1-3)
1946-1947	Shirley Anne Hoddinott (grade 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8)
1947-1948	Robert Holloway (grades 4-6), Iris Havergal Sharpe (grades 1-3)
1948-1949	Wilhelmine Flatt (grades 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-6)
1949-1950	Robert Holloway (grades 4-6), Anne R. Lentourch (grades 1-3)
1950-1951	Robert Holloway (grades 3-6, September-December; grades 3-5, January-June), Olga Greening (grades 1-2)
1951-1952	Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Beatrice McLean (grades 1-2)
1952-1953	Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Beatrice McLean (grades 1-2)
1953-1954	Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Macgillivray (grades 1-2)
1954-1955	Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Emma Massicotte (grades 1-2)
1955-1956	Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Emma Massicotte (grades 1-2)
1956-1957	Marcia Ewashko (grades 3-5), Nettie Loewen (grades 1-2)
1957-1958	Florence A. Godfrey (grades 2-4), Carolyn Sennett (grades 1-2)
1958-1959	Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Murray (grades 3-4), Carolyn Sennett (grades 1-2)
1959-1960	Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2), Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Murray (grades 3-4)
1960-1961	Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 3-4), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2)
1961-1962	Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 3-4), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2)
1962-1963	Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 2-3), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grade 1)

Photos & Coordinates

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.93152, W97.20638 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Brooklands School District No. 1440

Sources:

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

“Whoops - Pardon my sledge-hammer,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 1963, page 3.

“Brooklands School District No. 1440 invites offers,” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 April 1964, page 27.

A Short History of Brooklands Elementary Schools including Woodsworth, Cressey, Krawchyk, Butterworth, St. James Assiniboia School Division.

The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993 by the Rosser Municipality Centennial History Book Committee, page 102.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 16 October 2021

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