Manitoba Organization: Fort Garry School Division No. 5

The Fort Garry School Division was created on 1 April 1959 by an order of the Manitoba Minister of Education, acting on a recommendation of the MacFarlane Commission on Education and the School Divisions Boundaries Commission. It became responsible for all secondary education, grades 9 to 12, within the area of the former Fort Garry Municipal School District No. 2361.

Fort Garry School Division later became part of the Pembina Trails School Division.

Superintendents

Period

Superintendent

1959-1976

Arthur Alexander Leach (1915-2000)

1976-1981

Cornelius Van “Neil” Thiessen (1919-2016)

1981-1997

Henry George Edward Izatt

1998-2002

Jean A. Beaumont (1943-2016)

After 2002

See Pembina Trails School Division

Assistant Superintendents

Period

Assistant Superintendent

1959-1970

?

1970-1974

Cornelius Van “Neil” Thiessen (1919-2016)

1974-1976

Virginia Dorothy Beatty Andrew (1927-2020)
Cornelius Van “Neil” Thiessen (1919-2016)

1976-1981

Virginia Dorothy Beatty Andrew (1927-2020)
Peter John Blahey

1981-2002

?

After 2002

See Pembina Trails School Division

See also:

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions (1959)

Events in Manitoba History: Manitoba’s Rural School Consolidation (1905-1967)

Events in Manitoba History: School Divisions Boundaries Commission (1958-1959)

Events in Manitoba History: MacFarlane Royal Commission on Education (1957-1959)

Sources:

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Report of the School Divisions Boundaries Commission, 13 January 1959, Manitoba Legislative Library, SpR 1958 Education.

Announcement, Fort Garry School Division, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 January 1998, page 32.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 24 October 2026