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The ten-classroom elementary school was established in the Fort Garry School District No. 2047. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Prain and Ward and built at a cost of $145,000. The school opened on 1 September 1955. Three years later, six more classrooms were added at the cost of $90,000. It became part of the Fort Garry Municipal School District No. 2361 in 1959 then, later that year, part of the Fort Garry School Division. The school converted to French immersion in the Fall of 1987 and was renamed École Crane.
In 2004, a garden in front of the school was dedicated to late Principal Elizabeth Irene Bennett, and a commemorative plaque was affixed.
Principals
Vice-Principals
Period |
Vice-Principal |
1960-1962 |
Marion Ormrod Smith |
Teachers
Period |
Teachers |
1955-1956 |
Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Marilyn Marie Gould (grade 4), Olive E. Morris (grade 3), Frederick John “Fred” North (grade 5), Marion Ormrod (grade 1), Grace Evelyn Riddell (grade 2), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6) |
1956-1957 |
Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Letitia Joyce Cawston (grade 5), Emily M. Danyluk (grade 1), Lois Lorraine Hall (grade 2), Olive E. Morris (grade 3), Marion Ormrod (grades 3-4), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6), Grace Evelyn Riddell (grade 2), Marilyn Marie Gould Wallace (grade 4) |
1957-1958 |
Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Letitia Joyce Cawston (grade 5), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2, January-June), Donalda Mae Dale (grade 2), Emily M. Danyluk (grade 1, September-December), Lois Lorraine Hall (grade 2, September-December), Jenny Lind (grades 5-6), Marion Ormrod (grades 3-4), Sylvia Sanders (grade 4), Hazel Joye Saunders (grade 1, January-June), Cornelius Van Thiessen (grade 6) |
1958-1959 |
Eula Marlene Bridges (grade 3), Ardythe Brownlee (grade 5, January-June), Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Marie C. Campbell (grade 7), Shirley F. Clyde (grade 1), Ellen Muriel Coulter (grade 5, September-December), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Donalda Mae Dale (grade 2), Mavis Arlene Ford (grade 6), H. T. Janzen (grade 6), Jenny Lind (grade 5), Olive E. Morris (grade 3), Marion Ormrod (grade 4), Miss V. M. Perkes (grade 1), Sylvia Sanders (grade 4), June Sellar (grade 4), Marion Robina Smith (grade 7), Nancy J. Wevursky (grade 2) |
1959-1960 |
Gwenneth A. Barron (grade 3), Eula Marlene Bridges (grade 3), Norman Henry Brown (grade 5), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grade 5), Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Mavis Arlene Ford (grade 6), Donna Friesen (grade 7), Margaret Gail Harwood (grade 2), H. T. Janzen (grade 6), Dolores Betty Lohrenz (grade 1), Olive E. Morris (grade 3), Paul Neustaedter (grade 7), Miss V. M. Perkes (grade 1), Sylvia Sanders (grade 4), Mrs. E. Stewart (grade 2) |
1960-1961 |
Eula Marlene Bridges (grade 3), Norman Henry Brown (grade 5), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grade 5), Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Ruth Helen Fric (grade 4, January-June), Katie Olga Froese (grade 2), Sylvia Edith Goodbun (grade 4, September-December), Margaret Gail Harwood (grade 2), Mavis Arlene Ford Hyde (grade 6), Claudia M. Joyce (grade 1), Alvina Kroeker (grades 3-4), Dolores Betty Lohrenz (grade 1), Olive E. Morris (grade 3, September-December), Gwenneth Anne Mytruk (grade 4), Marion Ormrod (grade 6), Joan Monica Bridget Payne (grade 3, January-June) |
1961-1962 |
Norman Henry Brown (grade 5), Ardythe Anne Brownlee (grade 5), Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Ruth Helen Fric (grade 4), Claudia M. Joyce (grade 1), Marjorie Kalinowsky (grade 5), Dolores Betty Lohrenz (grade 1), Lynn Carol McLean (grade 5), Marion Ormrod Smith (grade 6) |
1962-1963 |
Eula Marlene Bridges (grade 3), Norman Henry Brown (grade 5), Gladys Isabella Burt (grade 1), Jean Ruth Coates (grade 3), Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Jean Rena Eaton (grade 5, November-June), Ruth Helen Fric (grade 4), Katie Olga Froese (grade 2), Margaret Gail Harwood Gilbert (grade 2), Marjorie Kalinowsky (grade 5, September-November), Alvina Kroeker (grade 4), Dolores Betty Lohrenz (grade 1), Joan Marion MacFarlane (grade 4), Lynn Carol McLean (grade 5), Alice Ella Pauls (grade 6), Joan Monica Bridget Payne (grade 3), Verna Marjorie Potoroka (grade 6), Beulah Mary Webb (grade 1) |
1963-1964 |
Ruth Helen Fric (grade 4), Alvina Kroeker (grade 4), S. Legary (grade 3, February), Ada Beatrice Long (grade 3, March-June), Joan Monica Bridget Payne (grade 3, September-February), Beulah Mary Webb (grade 1) |
1964-1965 |
Raymond Douglas Biggs (grade 5), Norman Henry Brown (grade 5), Juanita Loat (grade 3), Marie B. Payette (grade 4), Joan Monica Bridget Payne (grade 3), Katie Olga Froese Wiebe (grade 2) |
1965-1966 |
Ina Elizabeth Coulter (grade 2), Dennis Patrick Hallick (grade 6), Theodor Gerhard Klassen (grade 5, June), Alvina Kroeker (grade 5), Joan Marion MacFarlane (grade 4), Ardythe Anne Brownlee McMaster (grade 5, September-May), Marie B. Payette (grade 4), Joan Monica Bridget Payne (grade 3), Patricia Ann Stefanchuk (grade 3), Diane Day Wilton (grade 4) |
1966-1967 |
Vera Mary Hrycenko (grade 2), Sylvia G. Leith (grade 5), Juanita Loat (grade 3), Ada Beatrice Long (grade 1), Ides Edel Mazur (grade 5), Marie B. Payette (grade 4), Verna Marjorie Potoroka (grade 6), Patricia Ann Stefanchuk (grade 4), Diane Day Wilton (grade 4) |
Photos & Coordinates
Sources:
“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 21 December 1954, page 29.
“Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 August 1955, page 3.
“Three new mayors in metro suburbs,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 October 1957, page 1.
“C. V. Thiessen head Valley teacher group,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 November 1957, page 2.
“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 January 1958, page 26.
“Principal to speak,” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 March 1963, page 17.
“School’s reopening to affect others,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 May 1979, page 3.
“Fort Garry School Board retirement announcement,” Winnipeg Free Press, 23 June 1985, page 10.
“South Winnipeg schools switching principals,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 July 2004, page 67.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fort Garry School District No. 2047 (Crane School) Daily Registers, GR10356, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Fort Garry School Division No. 5 (Crane School) Daily Registers, GR10356, Archives of Manitoba.
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
We thank Christopher Pate and Anna Zonneveld for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 28 August 2021
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