Historic Sites of Manitoba: Headingley School No. 9 (Headingley)

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A monument for Headingley School is situated along Bridge Road in the Rural Municipality of Headingley. Built in 1910 on a design by architect Arthur F. Nesbitt, the two-classroom structure replaced an earlier school destroyed by fire on 14 January 1910. Students in grades 1 to 5 had classes in one room while those in grades 6 to 10 had classes in the other.

After the school closed, the building stood vacant. It was vandalized extensively and school records left in the building were destroyed. The building was later demolished. Students went to a newly-constructed Phoenix School nearby. The monument at the former school site was erected in 1999 by the Headingley Historical Society.

Principals

Period	Principal
1910	E. Mary McDougall
1910-1919	None
1919-1920	Hugh Clarke Fairfield (1877-1961)
1920-1938	?
1938-1940	Emerson Lloyd Arnett (1911-1975)
1940-1941	Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (c1905-1971)
1941-1943	Charlotte M. Finlay
1943-1944	?
1944-1946	Alexander Russell “Alex” Paterson (1882-1958)
1946-1955	?
1955-1956	Abram William “Abe” Krahn (1923-2016)
After 1956	See Phoenix School

Teachers

Period	Teachers
Before 1910	see Headingley School
1910	Spring only: E. Mary McDougall [MacDougall] (senior grades), Jessie Taylor (junior grades)
1910-1911	Linda L. Norris
1911-1912	Alice Sharer (Spring), Jennie Sharman (Fall)
1912-1913	K. Fairoot? (Spring), Kate Forrest (early pt. Fall), Jennie Sharman (late pt. Fall)
1913-1914	Estella McManus
1914-1915	Estella McManus
1915-1916	Estella McManus
1916-1917	Irene Morris
1917-1918	Irene A? Morris
1918-1919	Annie Cameron
1919-1920	Hugh Clarke Fairfield (senior grades), Hazel M. King (junior grades, Spring), James B. Taylor (junior grades, Fall)

Among the other teachers who worked at Headingley School were Jessie Matheson Iverach (1936-1940, daughter of David Iverach), Dorothy Currie (1943-1944), Mrs. Emily Priest (1944-1947), Mr. A. R. Patterson (1944-1947), Mrs. Selma M. Hardy (1947-1951), Molly Charlotte Finkbeiner (1952-1953), Miss Sarah B. Steel (1953-1954), Mr. P. Alexiuk (1954-1955), and Mrs. Viola Dufresne (1955-1956).

Photos & Coordinates

Headingley School (1920s) by E. D. Parker Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 5. Headingley School commemorative monument (May 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87432, W97.40494 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Headingley School No. 9 (Headingley)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Phoenix School No. 1528 (Headingley)

Sources:

Canada voters lists, Ancestry.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

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

“Jessie Taylor of Headingly becomes bride of T. V. Ellaby,” Manitoba Free Press, 3 October 1941, page 10.

“Ex-city fireman dies at 67 [Thomas Victor Ellaby],” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 November 1954, page 30.

Obituary [Jessie Ellaby], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 September 1969, page 37.

History of Headingley & Phoenix Schools: 1856-1974 by Mrs. N. Ramsay, St. James Assiniboia School Division, 1974.

Headingley: Pioneers Past & Present by Murray Peterson and Georgia Anderson Taillieu, Headingley Historical Society, 2003.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Larry Taylor, James Arnett, and William McArthur for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 7 June 2022

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