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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
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
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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