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This Rural Municipality of East St. Paul site was purchased by the East St. Paul Municipal School District No. 2322 in June 1957 for the purpose of a new educational facility. Designed by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Prain and Ward and built in 1958, the East St. Paul Collegiate (also known as East St. Paul School No. 2) hosted high school grades previously held at the nearby East St. Paul School No. 1. Its catchment area included students the local Rural Municipality of East St. Paul, Donald School District, and Rural Municipality of North Kildonan.
In the fall of 1960, staggered classes were held here for students who later transferred to the River East Collegiate upon its opening. After its use as a high school in the River East School Division ended, it hosted a wider span of grades and was renamed in April 1964 in commemoration of local market gardener and civil servant Robert Percy Andrews. Expanded in 1967 and 1974, when early grades transferred to the newly opened Birds Hill School in 1987, the school became a junior high school. The building has been expanded several times, in 1966 (four classrooms at a cost of $66,000) and 1975 (gymnasium and general improvements).
Period
Principal
1958-1961
Donald Ross “Don” McMaster (1931-2023)
1961-1964
?
1964-1970
Andrew “Andy” Koshelanyk
1970-1972
Albert Victor Mastin (1909-1992)
1972-1989
Orest Lazaruk (1932-2008)
1989-1998
Lauren Cartwright
1998-?
Barbara Elizabeth “Barb” Bowles
?-2011
?
2011-2018
Percy Edward “Ted” Stoesz
2018-2020
?
2020-2025
Scott Lysack
Period
Vice-Principal
1958-1967
?
1967-1970
None
1970-1981
?
1981-1982
Kenneth Gene “Ken” Pchajek
1982-1986
Ronald David Hildebrand
1986-1989
Lauren Cartwright
1989-1997
Peter Jacob Dyck
1997-1998
Barbara Elizabeth “Barb” Bowles
1998-2011
?
2011-2015
S. Evans
2015-2018
Ms. A. Maharaj Kumar
2018-2020
?
2020-2021
Ms. L. Stachniak Whalen
2021-2022
?
2022-2024
Derrick Pokrant
2024-2025
Joel Soroko
School Year
Teachers
1958-1959
Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Joseph L. Bergerson (grade 10)
1959-1960
Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Albert Donald Petkau (grade 10), Joseph L. Bergerson
1960-1961
R. Peniuk, Albert Donald Petkau, Harold Melville Stinson, ?
1961-1962
?
1962-1963
?
1963-1964
?
1964-1965
Ronald Paul “Don” Dubinski (grade 7), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 6, January-June), Sharon Jean Hamilton (grade 6, August-December), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko Patzer (grade 5), Harold Leslie Patzer (grades 7-8), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6)
1965-1966
Ronald Paul “Don” Dubinski (grade 7), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 8), Janette Lillian Guttman (grade 7, May-June), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko Patzer (grade 6), Harold Leslie Patzer (grade 7, September-April), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6)
1966-1967
Ronald Paul “Don” Dubinski (grade 7), Edward Firman (grade 6), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 8), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko Patzer (grade 7), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6)
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
1970-1971
1971-1972
1972-1973
1973-1974
Robert Andrews School (October 2017)
Source: Nathan Kramer
Robert Andrews School (May 2019)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.99049, W97.03656
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Prain and Ward / Ward and Macdonald / Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors / MCM Architects
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Percy Andrews (1868-1949)
“Staggered classes set at East St. Paul Collegiate,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 August 1960, page 48.
“Named after ex-trustees,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1964, page 11.
“Municipality elections Oct. 26,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 October 1966, page 4.
“Suburban referendums and bylaws,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 October 1996, page 13.
“School addition vetoed by board,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 February 1975, page 11.
“Board approves appointments,” Winnipeg Free Press Weekly North Edition, 2 July 1989, page 3.
Heritage I, A Story of East St. Paul by the RM of East St. Paul, 1967.
Heritage II, A History of East St. Paul by the RM of East St. Paul, 1991.
“Attitude adjustment,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 September 1992, page C19.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
School division student yearly attendance reports (E 0758A), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, East St. Paul School District No. 2322 (Robert Andrews) - Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.
MCM Architects Inc. fonds, 1912-1994, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Rose Kuzina and Peter Dyck for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 20 April 2025
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