Historic Sites of Manitoba: Central St. Paul School No. 1545 / East St. Paul School / Dr. F. W. L. Hamilton School (3225 Henderson Highway, East St. Paul)

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The Central St. Paul School District No. 1545 was organized formally in August 1910 and a two-classroom schoolhouse was located along Henderson Highway on Lots 93-94 in what would later become the Rural Municipality East St. Paul. In June 1950, the district merged with the Donald McLeod School District No. 2221 to become part of the East St. Paul Consolidated School District No. 2322. In Jauary 1954, it again merged with the Birds Hill School District No. 541, becoming the East St. Paul Municipal School District No. 2323 (later amalgamated into the River East School Division). The original structure served the local district until the opening of the adjacent East St. Paul School, after which the building was demolished in 1951-1952.

In April 1951, a vote on a proposed six-room school was approved overwhelmingly by district voters. The building was constructed at a cost of $75,000 by contractor J. R. Roziere on a four acre site. Known as East St. Paul School, or East St. Paul Consolidated School, construction began in May 1951 with the school opening to 125 students in grades 1-9 prior in December of that year. The structure also featured an auditorium, gymnasium, air conditioning, and radiant heating. Speakers at an official opening on 11 January 1952 included Chief Inspector C. K. Rogers, Education Minister W. C. Miller, municipal councillors Steve Kaminski and W. Stasinic, municipal Secretary-Treasurer Amy Augusta Gorham, ex-Secretary-Treasurer Walter Gorham, J. E. Roziere, School Board Secretary-Treasurer O. W. McNeely, school trustees J. Kupchak, Dr. J. L. Anderson, and Board Chairman Walter Peterson.

When the nearby East St. Paul Collegiate opened, senior grades were transferred there. The school was named for local resident and school trustee Frederick Wilson Lewis Hamilton in April 1964. Further capacity was expanded in 1976-1977 on designs by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Macdonald, Cockburn, McLeod, and McFeetors, and was officially unveiled on 10 February 1977.

Principals

Period	Principal
1920-1923	Walter Gorham (1868-1952)
1923-1928	None
1928	Dorothy May Caroline Muir
1929	Dorothy Gladys Muir
1929-1930	Jean Laughland White (1904-1994)
1930-1945	None
1945-1952	Ethel Catherine Edwards (1900-1996)
1952-1954	Emanuel Peter “Manuel” Tanchak (1914-1993)
1954	Franz Julius Solmundson (1907-1989)
1954-1959	Wesley Sterling McGill (1904-1986)
1959-1964	Andrew Koshelanyk
1964-1965	Florence Hope McKinnon “Flora” Bowman (1899-1966)
1965-1983	Coye Faye Wolstencroft (1931-2022)
1983-1992	Mosie Nicholas “Moe” Tobin (1933-2007)
1992-?	Ken Pchajek
?-2014	?
2014-?	T. Ziprick

Vice-Principals

Period	Vice-Principal
1957-1958	Donald Ross “Don” McMaster

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1910-1911	(1911 only) James Hilton Moir
1911-1912	James Hilton Moir
1912-1913	James Hilton Moir
1913-1914	James Hilton Moir
1914-1915	James Hilton Moir
1915-1916	Urbane Richard Moore (grades 1-8, 1916)
1916-1917	Walter Gorham (grades 1-7)
1917-1918	Walter Gorham (grades 1-8)
1918-1919	Walter Gorham (grades 1-8)
1919-1920	Walter Gorham (grades 1-8)
1920-1921	Edith Marion Gorham (grades 1-3), Walter Gorham (grades 4-8)
1921-1922	Edith Marion Gorham (grades 1-3), Walter Gorham (grades 4-8)
1922-1923	Edith Marion Gorham (grades 1-3), Walter Gorham (grades 4-7)
1923-1924	M. A. Currie (grades 1-7)
1924-1925	Clara Elizabeth Poyser (grades 1-8)
1925-1926	Clara Elizabeth Poyser (grades 1-8)
1926-1927	Clara Elizabeth Poyser (grades 1-8)
1927-1928	Kathleen J. Vanstone (grades 1-8), M. Jordan (grades 1-8, 1928)
1928-1929	Dorothy Gladys Muir (grades 4-7, 1929), Dorothy May Caroline Muir (grades 4-7, 1928), Sara Spicer (grades 1-3)
1929-1930	Jean Laughland (grades 5-8), Sara Spicer (grades 1-3)
1930-1931	Jean Laughland (grades 1-8), Bertha M. Wilson (grades 1-8, 1931)
1931-1932	Bertha M. Wilson (grades 1-8)
1932-1933	Myrtle Gladys Brooks (grades 1-8)
1933-1934	John Edward Dack (grades 1-8)
1934-1935	John Edward Dack (grades 1-8)
1935-1936	John Edward Dack (grades 1-8)
1936-1937	John Edward Dack (grades 1-8)
1937-1938	Thomas Bell (grades 1-8)
1938-1939	Genevieve Eileen Norman (grades 1-8)
1939-1940	Genevieve Eileen Norman (grades 1-8)
1940-1941	Genevieve Eileen Norman (grades 1-8)
1941-1942	Alexandra Krett (grades 1-8)
1942-1943	Marie-Louise Flanagan (grades 1-8)
1943-1944	Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 1-7)
1944-1945	Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 1-8)
1945-1946	Jessie Belton (grades 1-4), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8)
1946-1947	Jessie Belton (grades 1-4), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8)
1947-1948	Jessie Belton (grades 1-4), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8)
1948-1949	Jessie Belton (grades 1-4), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8)
1949-1950	Jessie Belton (grades 1-4), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8)
1950-1951	Vera Elaine Gorlick (grades 1-4), Jessie Belton (grades 1-5), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-8), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grades 5-8)
1951-1952	Jessie Belton (grades 1-2), Vera Elaine Gorlick (grades 3-4), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grades 5-6), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 7-9)
1952-1953	Vera Gertrude Bell (grades 7-8), Ethel Catherine Edwards (grades 5-6, 1952), Vera Elaine Gorlick (grades 1-2), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grades 3-4), Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (grades 5-6, 1953), Emanuel Peter “Manuel” Tanchak (grade 9-11)
1953-1954	Vera Gertrude Bell (grades 7-8), Vera Elaine Gorlick (grades 3-4), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grades 1-2), Winona Elaine Kinniard Pratt (grades 9-10), Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (grades 5-6), Emanuel Peter “Manuel” Tanchak (grade 11)
1954-1955	Dorothy Ellen Martins (grades 1-2), Agathe Pomeroy (grades 3-4, 1954), Winnifred Muriel Wilson (grades 5-6), Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (grades 7-8), Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Winona Elaine Kinniard Pratt (grade 10), Lola Louise Reid (grades 3-4, 1955) Wesley Sterling McGill (grade 11)
1955-1956	Joseph Leandre Bergeron (grade 10), Hope Bowman (grade 3), Irene M. Kazina (grade 1), Albert Victor Kohuska (grade 8), Jeanne Therese Lambert (grade 7), Wesley Sterling McGill (grade 11), Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Neil McTavish (grade 5), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grade 2), Lola Louise Reid (grade 4), Winnifred Muriel Wilson (grade 6)
1956-1957	Joseph Leandre Bergeron (grade 10), Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grade 6), Irene M. Kazina (grade 1), Albert Victor Kohuska (grade 8), Jeanne Therese Lambert (grade 7), Wesley Sterling McGill (grade 11), Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Neil McTavish (grade 5), Dorothy Ellen Martins (grade 2), Lola Louise Reid (grade 4)
1957-1958	Joseph Leandre Bergeron (grade 10), Hope Bowman (grade 3), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grade 6), Augustine Chateau (grade 7), Irene M. Kazina (grade 1), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Lola Mae Lurker (grade 2), Wesley Sterling McGill (grade 11), Donald Ross McMaster (grade 9), Neil McTavish (grade 5), Katherine Zacharias (grade 4)
1958-1959	Elizabeth Hope Bowman (grade 3), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5, 1959), Lola Mae Lurker Crawley (grade 2), Jennie Marion Hayka (grades 3-4, 1959), Yvonne Koch (grades 1-2), Lorraine Wanda Murray (grade 1), Katherine Zacharias (grade 4), ? (grade 5, 1960)
1959-1960	Yvonne Koch (grade 1), Louise Margaret Roy (grade 2), Lola Mae Lurker Crawley (grade 2), Florence Hope ”Flora” Bowman (grade 3), Jennie Marion Hayka (grade 3), Irene M. Kazina (grade 2, 1960), Katherine Zacharias (grade 4), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5), ? (other grades)
1960-1961	Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 7), Jennie Marion Hayka (grades 3 & 5), Doris Gail Johnson (grade 2), Yvonne Koch (grade 1), Louise Margaret Roy (grade 1), Katherine Wiens (grade 2), Katherine Zacharias (grade 4)
1961-1962	Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5), Eva Durnin (grade 5, 1962), Jennie Marion Hayka (grades 3-4), Doris Gail Johnson (grade 2), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), William Alex Lebedeff (grades 7-8), Delores Diane Mauthe (grade 2), Harold Leslie Patzer (grade 7), Kathryn Pronyk (grade ?), Louise Margaret Roy (grade 1), Jean Brown Segall (grade 5, 1961; grade 4, 1962), Yvonne Koch Silver (grade 1), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6), Katherine Zacharias (grade 4, 1961)
1962-1963	Edith Elizabeth Bowman (grade 4), Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 8), Jennie Marion Hayka (grades 3-4), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Jean Adeline Panas (grades 5-6), Harold Leslie Patzer (grade 7), Kathryn Pronyk (grades 2-3), Louise Margaret Roy (grade 1), Jean Brown Segall (grade 4, 1962), Yvonne Koch Silver (grade 1), Delores Diane Mauthe Tonn (grade 2), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6)
1963-1964	Edith Elizabeth Bowman (grade 4), Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Elizabeth Alexandra Chastko (grade 5), Norman Philip Guilbert (grade 7), Jennie Marion Hayka (grade 3), Johann Paul Johnson (grades 5-6), Andrew Koshelanyk (grade 8), Harold Leslie Patzer (grade 7), Mary Elizabeth Reynolds (grade 1, 1964), Yvonne Koch Silver (grade 1, 1963), Delores Diane Mauthe Tonn (grade 2), Anne Helen Woloshyn (grade 6), Coye Faye Wolstencoft (grade 4)
1964-1965	Florence Hope Bowman (grade 3), Sylvia Dorothy Gordon (grade 4), Darlene Margaret Lazenby (grade 5), Marjorie Lois Roberts (grade 1), Delores Diane Mauthe Tonn (grade 2), Coye F. Wolstencroft (grade 4)
1965-1966	Edith Elizabeth Bowman (grade 3, 1966), Joan Julia Chastko (grade 2), Pauline Eizabeth Evans (grade 5), Doreen Lois Gilbart (grade 5), V. Elaine Goldie (grade 3), Marjorie Lois Roberts (grade 1), Coye F. Wolstencroft (grade 4)
1966-1967	Marcia Marie Altomare (grades 1-2), Joan Julia Chastko (grade 2), Pauline Eizabeth Evans (grade 5), Doreen Lois Gilbart (grade 5), Kathryn Pronyk (grade 3), Marjorie Lois Roberts (grade 1), Coye F. Wolstencroft (grade 4)

Among the other teachers of Dr. F. W. L. Hamilton School was Dorothy Elizabeth Balderstone Langton (1960s-1972, relief teacher).

Photos & Coordinates

Central St. Paul School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 137. Dr. F. W. L. Hamilton School (October 2014) Source: Nathan Kramer Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.99115, W97.03911 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Frederick Wilson Lewis Hamilton (1879-1959)

Sources:

“Second Normal Class,” Winnipeg Tribune, 3 January 1906, page 3.

“East St. Paul vote shows 90% for new school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 April 1951, page 3.

“Official opening of St. Paul School Friday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 January 1952, page 7.

“St. Paul School best in Province, Miller declares,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1952, page 34.

“Austin Sperring retires as East St. Paul Reeve,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 December 1953, page 27.

“Named after ex-trustees,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 April 1964, page 11.

“School addition vetoed by board,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 February 1975, page 11.

“Tender notice,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1975, page 69.

“Official opening,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 February 1977, page 3.

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

Heritage II, a Story of East St. Paul, by the RM of East St. Paul, 1991.

Obituary [Dorothy Elizabeth Balderstone Langton (1907-2006)], Winnipeg Free Press, 9 February 2006, page 32.

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

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

Manitoba School Records Collection, Central St. Paul School District No. 1545 - Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, East St. Paul Consolidated School District No. 2333 - Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Dr. [F. W. L.] Hamilton School - Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 27 May 2023

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