History in Manitoba Schools and Universities

The names of many educational facilities in Manitoba commemorate historical personalities. Unfortunately, the basis for some names has not been recorded. This project will attempt to list the basis for as many Manitoba school names as possible. Those with obvious names (for example, those named for the street or town in which they are situated) will not be included.

NOTE: This is a work in progress, and information will be added as it becomes available. Please send corrections and updates to Gordon Goldsborough at webmaster@mhs.mb.ca.

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School name	Manitoba City/Town	Notes	Sources
Alf Cuthbert School	Moosehorn
Andrew Mynarski School	Winnipeg	Named for war hero Andrew Charles Mynarski.	MHS
Angus McKay School	Winnipeg
Arthur Day Middle School	Winnipeg
Arthur A. Leach Junion High School	Winnipeg
Arthur Meighen School	Portage la Prairie	Named for lawyer and politician Arthur Meighen.	MHS
Arthur E. Wright School	Winnipeg
École Bannatyne	Winnipeg (St. James)	Named for pioneer Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne.	MHS
Lt. Col. Barker VC School	Dauphin	Named for aviator William George Barker.	MHS
Bernie Wolfe School	Winnipeg
Bertrun E. Glavin School	Winnipeg
Betty Gibson School	Brandon	Named for educator Betty Gibson.	MHS
Cecil Rhodes School	Winnipeg
Chapman School	Winnipeg	Named for municipal official George Thomas Chapman.	MHS
D. R. Hamilton School	Cross Lake
Dr. D. W. Penner School	Winnipeg
Daniel McIntyre Collegiate	Winnipeg	Named for educator Daniel J. McIntyre.	MHS
David Livingstone School	Winnipeg
Dufferin School	Winnipeg	Named for Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, First Marquess of Dufferin (1826-1902), who visited Winnipeg during his tenure as Canadian Governor General from 1872 to 1878.	MHS
Earl Grey School	Winnipeg
Constable Edward Finney School	Winnipeg
Edward Schreyer School	Beausejour
Fleming School	Brandon	Named for Alexander Fleming.	MHS
F. W. Gilbert School	Pinawa
Dr. F. W. L. Hamilton School	East St. Paul
General Vanier School	Winnipeg
General Wolfe School	Winnipeg
George Fitton School	Brandon
George Johnson Middle School	Gimli	Named for physician George Johnson.	MHS
George McDowell School	Winnipeg
George Waters Middle School	Winnipeg (St. James)
Gordon Bell High School	Winnipeg	Named for physician and educator Gordon Bell.	MHS
Governor Semple School	Winnipeg	Named for Robert Semple.	MHS
Greenway School	Winnipeg	Named for Manitoba premier Thomas Greenway.	MHS
H. C. Avery Middle School	Winnipeg
H. S. Paul School	Winnipeg
Harold Hatcher School	Winnipeg
Hazel M. Kellington School	Neepawa
Henry G. Izatt Middle School	Winnipeg
Hugh John Macdonald School	Winnipeg	Named for judge Hugh John Macdonald.	MHS
Isbister School / Winnipeg Adult Education Centre	Winnipeg	Named for Alexander Kennedy Isbister.	MHS
J. A. Cuddy School	Sanford	Named for James Anthony Cuddy, President of the Manitoba School Trustees Association in the early 1950s.	MHS
J. B. Mitchell School	Winnipeg	Named for architect James Bertram Mitchell.	MHS
J. H. Bruns Collegiate	Winnipeg
J. M. Young School	Eden
J. R. Reid School	Brandon
J. R. Walkof School	Winkler	Named for educator John Robert Walkof.	MHS
James Nisbet School	Winnipeg
John De Graff School	Winnipeg
John Henderson Junior High	Winnipeg
John W. Gunn Middle School	Winnipeg
John M. King School	Winnipeg	Named for educator and cleric John Mark King.	MHS
John Pritchard School	Winnipeg
John G. Stewart School	Winnipeg
John Taylor Collegiate	Winnipeg (St. James)	Named for pioneer John Taylor.	MHS
Joseph H. Kerr School	Snow Lake
Joseph Teres School	Winnipeg
Julie Lindal School	Ilford
Krawchyk School	Winnipeg	Originally named Brooklands School, it was renamed for politician Stephen Nicholas Krawchyk after his death. After sitting empty for several years, the school building was demolished on 6 February 2009.	MHS; Winnipeg Free Press, 7 February 2009, page B1
Laura Secord School	Winnipeg
Léo Rémillard School	Winnipeg	Named for Léo Rémillard.	MHS
Lord Selkirk School	Winnipeg	Named for Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk.	MHS
Lord Wolseley School	Winnipeg
Collège Louis-Riel	Winnipeg (St. Boniface)
Luxton School	Winnipeg	Named for teacher and journalist William Fisher Luxton.	MHS
Machray School	Winnipeg	Named for clergyman Robert Machray.	MHS
Major Pratt School	Russell	Named for educator and historian Albert Maurice Pratt.	MHS
Margaret Barbour Collegiate	The Pas
École Margaret Underhill	Winnipeg
Mary Montgomery School	Virden
Mary Newell School	Granville Lake
McLaren School	Brandon	Named for war veteran Joseph McLaren.	MHS
Mel Johnson School	Wabowden
Miles Macdonell Collegiate	Winnipeg	Named for pioneer Miles Macdonell.	MHS
Mulvey School	Winnipeg	Named for politician Stewart Mulvey.	MHS
Murdoch Mackay Collegiate	Winnipeg	Named for physician Murdoch Mackay.	MHS
Neil Campbell School	Winnipeg
Nellie McClung Collegiate	Manitou	Named for feminist Nelly Letitia McClung.	MHS
Norquay School	Winnipeg (Point Douglas)	Named for Manitoba premier John Norquay.	MHS
O. V. Jewitt School	Winnipeg	Named for educator Oliver Victor Jewitt.	MHS
Oscar Blackburn School	South Indian Lake
Chief Peguis Junior High School	Winnipeg
Phoenix School	Headingley	When the Headingley School in North Headingley burned to the ground in the early twentieth century, it was replaced in South Headingley with a school that “rose from the ashes” in an analogous way to the mythical Phoenix bird.	Ref 1
Collège Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau	Winnipeg
Pinkham School	Winnipeg	Named for clergyman William Cyprian Pinkham. The school's first principal was Frank Howard Schofield.	MHS
Prince Edward School	Winnipeg
Princess Margaret School	Winnipeg
Principal Sparling School	Winnipeg	Named for educator and clergyman Joseph Walter Sparling.	MHS
R. B. Russell High School	Winnipeg	Named for labour leader R. B. Russell.	MHS
R. D. Parker Collegiate	Thompson
R. F. Morrison School	Winnipeg
R. H. G. Bonnycastle School	Winnipeg	Named for businessman Richard H. G. Bonnycastle.	MHS
R. J. Waugh School	Carberry	Named for physician Reuben J. Waugh.	MHS
R. W. Bobby School	Stonewall
Radisson School	Winnipeg
Ralph Maybank School	Winnipeg	Named for politician Ralph Maybank.	MHS
Robert Andrews School	East St. Paul
Robert Smith School	Selkirk
Robert H. Smith School	Winnipeg	Named for school division secretary-treasurer Robert Huston Smith.	MHS
Rod Martin School	Moose Lake
Ross L. Gray School	Sprague
Ruth Betts School	Flin Flon
Ruth Hooker School	Selkirk
Samuel Burland School	Winnipeg
Sansome School	Winnipeg	Named for municipal official Joseph H. Sansome.	MHS
Scott Bateman Middle School	The Pas	Named for educator B. Scott Bateman.	MHS
Shevchenko School	Vita
Sigurbjorg Stefansson Early School	Gimli	Named for educator Sigurbjorg Stefansson.	[2]
Sisler High School	Winnipeg	Named for educator William James Sisler.	MHS
Sister MacNamara School	Winnipeg	Named for educator Geraldine MacNamara.	MHS
Stanley Knowles School	Winnipeg	Named for politician Stanley Howard Knowles.	MHS
Thomas Greenway Middle School	Crystal City	Named for Manitoba premier Thomas Greenway.	MHS
École Van Belleghem	Winnipeg	Named for politican Joseph Gustave Van Belleghem.	MHS
Victor Mager School	Winnipeg	Named for politician Victor Magar.	MHS
Victor H. L. Wyatt School	Winnipeg
Vincent Massey High School	Brandon
W. C. Miller Collegiate	Altona	Named for politician William Conrad Miller.	MHS
Walter Whyte School	Grand Marais
William Morton Collegiate	Gladstone	Named for politician William Morton.	MHS
William S. Patterson School	Clandeboye
William Whyte School	Winnipeg	Named for railwayman William Whyte.	MHS
Wolseley School	Winnipeg	Named for an area of Winnipeg which, in turn, is named for soldier Garnet Joseph Wolseley.	MHS
Yellowquill School	Portage la Prairie

University of Manitoba

Building	Notes
Allen	Named for early professor Frank Allen.
Armes	Named for early professor Henry P. Armes.
Arthur V. Mauro	Name for former University Chancellor Arthur Mauro.
Brodie
Buller	Named for early professor Arthur Henry Reginald Buller.
Chown	Named for Henry Havelock Chown.
Drake
Duff Roblin	Named for politician Dufferin Roblin.
Elizabeth Dafoe	Named for librarian Elizabeth Dafoe.
Ellis	Named for Joseph Henry Ellis.
Fitzgerald	Named for artist Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald.
Fletcher Argue	Named for early professor Robert Fletcher Argue.
Frank Kennedy	Named for Frank Kennedy, the first director of physical education at the University and a leader in physical education in Manitoba
Helen Glass
Isbister	Named for lawyer and philanthropist Alexander Kennedy Isbister.
Machray	Named for cleric Robert Machray.
Marcel A. Desautels	Named for philanthropist Marcel A. Desautels.
Mary Speechly	Named for Mary Barrett Speechly.
Max Bell	Named for businessman Max Bell.
Parker	Named for early professor Matthew Archibald Parker.
Robson	Named for Hugh Amos Robson.
Russell	Named for early professor John A. Russell.
Schultz	Named for Robert B. Schultz.
Sinnott
Tache	Named for cleric Alexandre-Antonin Taché.
Tier	Named for early professor William Tier.
Wallace	Named for early professor Robert Charles Wallace.

University of Winnipeg

Building	Notes
Ashdown	Named for businessman James Henry Ashdown.
Bryce	Named for cleric George Bryce.
Duckworth	Named for University administrator Henry Edmison “Harry” Duckworth.
Graham
Lockhart	Named for University administrator Wilfred Cornet Lockhart.
MacNamara
Helen Betty Osborne
Riddell	Named for cleric John Henry Riddell.
Sparling	Named for cleric Joseph Walter Sparling.
Wesley

Brandon University

Building	Notes
Brodie	Named for businessman and philanthropist John R. Brodie.
Darrach	Named for nurse and philanthropist Sarah Perssis Johnston Darrach.
Flora Cowan	Named for businesswoman Flora Cowan.
Jeff Umphrey
Knowles-Douglas	Named for politicians Stanley Howard Knowles and Thomas C. “Tommy” Douglas.
McKenzie	Named for businessman and philanthropist Albert Edward McKenzie.
McMaster
George T. Richardson

Sources:

1. Communication from Larry Taylor, Winnipeg, 19 November 2008.

2. Communication from Joan Christenson, 21 December 2009.

MHS Resources

Page revised: 19 January 2010