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The first high school classes in Winnipeg were held in September 1882. Eight students (seven boys and one girl) assembled in the upper room of a school building on Louise Street but the facility soon proved inadequate in the cold winter weather so classes were moved to a room on the upper floor of the Central School.
In 1891, the Winnipeg School Board chose a site at William Avenue and Kate Street to build, at a cost of $30,000, the city’s first dedicated high school building. Designed by local architect Hugh McCowan, the three-storey brick structure had four classrooms on the first and second floors, and two smaller rooms and a large assembly hall on the third floor. Its initial enrolment was 360 students.
In September 1915, the collegiate was transferred to the newly built Isaac Brock School (and later to Daniel McIntyre Collegiate, as of 1922) and the building was used as an elementary facility called Maple Leaf School. Though the school’s physical systems were considered up-to-date when it was built, they eventually became too expensive to repair and the building was demolished in 1928, to be replaced at the site by Hugh John Macdonald School.
Noteworthy graduates of the collegiate included Nellie McClung, Joseph Lamont, Charles Vanstone, Thomas Glendenning Hamilton, Fawcett Taylor, Helen Palk, Agnes Laut, Joseph Thorarinn Thorson, Edmund Guthrie Perry, Skuli Johnson, Richard W. Craig, and Paul Bardal.
Period
Principal
1882-1883
John B. Fawcett
1883-1884
H. T. Galton
1884
James Hoyes Panton (1847-1898)
1884-1888
Allan Bowerman (1844-1923)
1888-1889
Edwin Samuel Popham (1856-1930)
1889-1909
Frank Howard Schofield (1859-1929)
1909-1912
Elwood A. Garratt (1859-1950)
1912-1914
Robert Thomas Hodgson (1864-1950)
1914-1915
Elwood A. Garratt (1859-1950)
After 1915
Period
Principal
1915-1917
?
1917-1919
William Nelson Denike (1871-1948)
1919-1920
Halldora Hermann [Hermannsdottir] “Dora” Magnusson (1885-1977)
1920-1921
David Bruce Huggins (1879-1955)
1921-1928
Wilfred Sadler (1884-1951)
After 1928
School Year
Teachers
1882-1883
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1883-1884
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1884-1885
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1885-1886
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1886-1887
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1887-1888
William Albert McIntyre (mathematics), ?
1888-1889
?
1889-1890
?
1890-1891
?
1891-1892
Miss Clune (French), Elwood A. Garratt (science), Mr. A. L. Langford (classics), F. H. Schofield (mathematics), Barbara Ferguson Stewart (commercial course), Mr. J. B. Wilson (English)
1892-1893
Miss Clune, Elwood A. Garratt, Miss Johnston, Miss Killock, Mr. Morrow (classics), Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Mr. Wilson, Miss Zinkan
1893-1894
Primary Department: Miss Andrews, Miss Killoch, Miss Lant. Collegiate Department: Elwood A. Garratt, Miss Haverty, Mr. O. E. Morrow, Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Mr. J. B. Wilson
1894-1895
Mr. Argue, Elwood A. Garratt, ?
1895-1896
David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Miss Hagarty, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Miss Killoch, Miss Laut, Miss Parsons, Barbara Ferguson Stewart, John Cameron Saul
1896-1897
Elwood A. Garratt, Robert Hutchinson Scott (commercial teacher), Miss Maud Somerset (modern languages), ?
1897-1898
Miss A. L. Brunsterman, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Miss Johnston, Miss Killoch, Miss McLeod, John Cameron Saul, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1898-1899
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, Elwood A. Garratt, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Miss A. McLeod, John Cameron Saul, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1899-1900
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Miss McLeod, John Cameron Saul, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1900-1901
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Miss A. McLeod, John Cameron Saul, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Miss Margaret Young
1901-1902
David Merritt Duncan (classics), Elwood A. Garratt (science), Margaret Jeannette Johnston (junior English and geography), John Cameron Saul (English), Robert Hutchinson Scott (commercial master), Barbara Ferguson Stewart (music and drawing), Clara Groves Walsh (French and German)
1902-1903
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, George H. Ross, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Clara Groves Walsh
1903-1904
Miss A. L. Brunstermann (modern languages), David Merritt Duncan (classics), Elwood A. Garratt (science), Margaret Jeannette Johnston (junior English, geography), Charles Walter Laidlaw (English literature), Miss R. Rodgers (junior English), Robert Hutchinson Scott (commercial), Barbara Ferguson Stewart (music and drawing)
1904-1905
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Miss R. Rodgers, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Miss G. Shore, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1905-1906
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, Miss S. C. Doupe, David Merritt Duncan, Elwood A. Garratt, Percy Dewart Harris, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Miss R. Rodgers, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1906-1907
Miss A. L. Brunstermann (1906), Miss S. C. Doupe, David Merritt Duncan, John W. Forhan (1907), Elwood A. Garratt, Percy Dewart Harris, Margaret Jeannette Johnston (1907), Charles Walter Laidlaw, Thomas Laidlaw (senior commercial, 1907), Flora B. Polson (1907), Rebecca Rodgers, Robert Hutchinson Scott (commercial, 1907), Hugh William Watson (1906)
1907-1908
Miss A. L. Brunstermann (French & German), Miss S. C. Doupe (English & French), David Merritt Duncan (classics), John W. Forhan, Elwood A. Garratt (science), Percy Dewart Harris (Latin & history), William George Henderson (mathematics), Melvin L. Hooper (mathematics), Margaret Jeannette Johnston (history), Charles Walter Laidlaw (English), Miss Flora B. Polson (English & French), Rebecca Rodgers (English), Robert Hutchinson Scott (commercial), Barbara Ferguson Stewart (music & drawing)
1908-1909
Miss A. L. Brunstermann, Mr. S. A. Campbell, Mr. P. C. Dobson, Miss S. C. Doupe, Elwood A. Garratt, Percy Dewart Harris, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Thomas Laidlaw, William Fletcher Loucks, Miss Flora B. Polson, Rebecca Rodgers, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1909-1910
Jim Brown, Miss A. L. Brunstermann, Mr. S. A. Campbell, P. G. Dobson, Miss S. C. Doupe, Mrs. E. B. Elliott (1909), Robert Thomas Hodgson (1909), Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Thomas Laidlaw, William Fletcher Loucks, Miss Flora B. Polson, Rebecca Rodgers (1909), Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Hugh William Watson (1909)
1910-1911
Mr. P. C. Dobson, Miss S. C. Doupe, William George Henderson, Percy Dewart Harris, Robert Thomas Hodgson, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Miss Flora B. Polson, Rebecca Rodgers, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1911-1912
Miss M. Anderson, Mr. P. C. Dobson, Miss S. C. Doupe, Mrs. E. B. Elliott, Percy Dewart Harris, Robert Thomas Hodgson, Mr. E. W. Jefferson, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, Robert Hutchinson Scott, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1912-1913
Miss M. Anderson, Mr. P. C. Dobson, Miss S. C. Doupe, Miss G. Edwards, Mrs. E. B. Elliott, Percy Dewart Harris, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Charles Walter Laidlaw, James Clayton Pincock, Barbara Ferguson Stewart, Miss Towner
1913-1914
Miss M. Anderson, William Arthur Cowperthwaite, Miss F. Dodd, Miss S. C. Doupe, Mrs. E. B. Elliott, Miss E. Fielding, Percy Dewart Harris, Margaret Jeannette Johnston, Mr. E. A. Miller, James Clayton Pincock, Barbara Ferguson Stewart
1914-1915
Miss M. H. Anderson (grade 9), William Arthur Cowperthwaite (grade 10), Mr. P. C. Dobson (grade ?), Miss S. C. Doupe (grade 10), Mrs. E. B. Elliott (grade 9), Miss Edith M. Fielding (special, 1915), Miss V. M. Fox (grade 9), Percy Dewart Harris (grade 12), Dora Hermann (grade 9, September-June), Margaret Jeannette Johnston,James Clayton Pincock, Wilfred Sadler, Barbara Ferguson Stewart (grade 11)
After 1915
Postcard view of the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0091
Winnipeg Collegiate Institute (circa 1910)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg - Schools - Collegiate #7, N5222.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.90270, W97.15293
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Isaac Brock School (1265 Barratt Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute (720 Alverstone Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hugh John Macdonald School (567 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple Leaf School No. 83 (Morden)
Manitoba School Records Collection, Winipeg School District No. 1 (Winnipeg Collegiate Institute) Daily Registers, GR5004, Archives of Manitoba.
“The high school,” Manitoba Free Press, 16 February 1883, page 5.
“What’s in a name,” Manitoba Free Press, 13 November 1889, page 4.
“A collegiate building,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 June 1891, page 3.
“A new high school,” Manitoba Free Press, 30 June 1891, page 8.
“Opening of city schools,” Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 2 September 1899, page 4.
“Assignment of teachers,” Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 1 September 1900, page 1.
“Holidays end Tuesday next,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 31 August 1901, page 10.
“The staff of city teachers,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 1 September 1902, page 3.
“City schools re-open Monday,” Manitoba Free Press, 29 August 1903, page 7.
“City schools open to-morrow,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 31 August 1904, page 3.
“Assignment of Winnipeg teachers,” Manitoba Free Press, 2 September 1905, page 11.
“Changes in city schools,” Manitoba Free Press, 31 August 1907, page 45.
“Presentations to Schofield,” Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 12 October 1907, page 5.
“Farewell to veteran,” Manitoba Free Press, 11 July 1913, page 28.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“817 teachers are appointed for new school term,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 August 1921, page 1.
“Many men prominent not only in city but throughout Canada passed through the portals of the old collegiate institute,” Manitoba Free Press, 9 December 1922, page 31.
“Daniel McIntyre Collegiate, Winnipeg,” Manitoba Calling, May 1944, page 17.
“Hugh John Macdonald School,” unpublished file by Winnipeg School Division.
We thank Joyce Wawrykow, Olga Zaporzan, James Burns, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Reid Dickie.
Page revised: 21 March 2024
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