Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lord Wolseley School / East Kildonan Collegiate (939 Henderson Highway, Winnipeg)

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Named for British military commander Garnet J. Wolseley, the Lord Wolseley School building was designed by architect John Danley Atchison and constructed in 1915 with six classrooms, at the same time as Salisbury School and Lord Kitchener School.

Secondary education in the East Kildonan area began in 1921 when the Winnipeg School District advised the local school board that it was not longer able to accept secondary students. For a year, classes were held in the Prince Edward School, which had opened in the fall of 1920. By the fall of 1927, overcrowding caused the classes to be relocated into Lord Wolseley School, where they remained until 1952, when the Miles Macdonell Collegiate building was constructed at its present location.

In October 1953, the school inaugurated the first school zone speed sign in Manitoba at the corner of Henderson Highway at Leighton Avenue.

Principals (Lord Wolseley School)

Period	Principal
1915-1918	David Sutherland Michell (1865-1957)
1918-1920	James Hilton Moir (1882-1955)
1920-1921	Dorothy Rutherford Turner (1897-1970)
1921-1923	Bessie May Cameron Lancaster (1892-1978)
1923-1927	?
1927-1952	See East Kildonan Collegiate
1952-1959	Leslie Wilmot Wiley (1910-1996)
1959-1961	Robert Henry Alexander Gray (1917-2010)
1961-1964	Marion Anderson (?-1983)
1964-1968	John Alexander Melnyk (1927-2022)
1968-1969	?
1969-1972	Orest Lazaruk (1932-2008)
?-?	Val Kovachik (1933-2005)

Vice-Principals (Lord Wolseley School)

Period	Vice-Principal
1952-1953	Melvin “Mel” Borody (1922-2010)
1955-1956	John Alexander Melnyk (1927-2022)
1956-1958	?
1958-1959	George Wall
1959-1962	Donald Neil McTavish
1962-1965	Hubert John Jonasson
1965-1967	James Gordon “Jim” Ladoski (1932-2006)

Principals (East Kildonan Collegiate)

Period	Principal
1921-1947	James Hilton Moir (1882-1955)
1947-1952	James Edwin Scarrow (1902-1982)
After 1952	See Miles Macdonell Collegiate

Vice-Principals (East Kildonan Collegiate)

Period	Vice-Principal
1927-1928	Harvey Willis Ferrier (1873-1957)
1928-1942	Howard Robert Haines (1891-1974)
1942-1946	Frank Edmund “Ed” Goldring (1912-1970)
1946-1952	Leslie Wilmot Wiley (1910-1996)
After 1952	See Miles Macdonell Collegiate

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1915-1916	Norah Armstrong (grades 4-5), Rebecca Johnston (grade 1), David Sutherland Michell (grades 6-8), Bessie Stebbing (grades 1-3)
1916-1917	Dorothy Green (grades 4-5), Daisy Jackson (grade 1), David Sutherland Michell (grades 6-8), Alta Shearer (grade 1), Bessie Stebbing (grades 2-3)
1917-1918	Bernice May “Bessie” Cameron (grades 5-6), Dorothy H. Green (grade 4), Esther M. Hagbord (grade 1), Gertrude Higgins (gras 2-3), David Sutherland Michell (grades 6-8)
1918-1919	Bessie May Cameron (grades 5-6), Ida May Cook (grade 1), Dorothy H. Green (grades 4-5), Gertrude Higgins (grade 3), James Hilton Moir (grades 7-8)
1919-1920	Bessie May Cameron (grade 6), Ida May Cook (grade 5), Evelyn Fleming (grade 1), Dorothy H. Green (grade 4), James Hilton Moir (grades 7-8), Stella Morrison (grades 1-3)
1920-1921	Oneita W. Cannon (grade 1), Lucille E. Gelley (grades 2-3), G. B. Jickling (grades 1-2), James Hilton Moir (grades 7-8), Gladys M. Robertson (grades 4-5), Dorothy Turner (grades 5-6)
1921-1922	Bessie May Cameron (grade 7), Miss Oneita W. Cameron (grade 1), Miss Lucille E. Gelley (grades 3-4), Miss Jessie McDonald, Miss Gladys M. Robertson (grades 4-5), Dorothy Turner (grades 5-6)
1922-1923	Bessie May Cameron (grades 7-8), Oneita W. Cameron (grade 1), Lucille E. Gelley (grades 3-4), Mrs. J. Holmes (grades 5-6, substitute), K. Grant McDougal (grades 3-4, 1923), Gladys M. Robertson (grades 5-6), Dorothy Turner (grades 5-6)
1923-1924	Oneita W. Cameron (grade 1; grades 1-2, 1923), Margaret MacDonald (grades 1-2, 1924), Jessie McDonald (grades 3-4), Gladys M. Robertson (grades 5-6), Dorothy Turner (grades 4-5), Sara M. Wood (grades 7-8)
1924-1925	E. M. Bayfield (grades 1-2), Oneita W. Cameron (grade 1, 1924), R. C. Green (grade 5, 1925), Jean Lightbody (grade 1, 1925) Margaret MacDonald (grades 3-4), Florence M. Russell (grade 5, 1925), Dorothy Turner (grade 5, 1924), James Kenneth Watson (grade 6)
1925-1926	E. M. Bayfield (grades 2-3), Margaret M. Gelley (grade 1, 1926), Jean Lightbody (grade 1, 1925), Margaret MacDonald (grades 3-4), Florence M. Russell (grade 5), Margaret Shaw (grade 6), James Kenneth Watson (grade 8)
1926-1927	Fannie Bell Atchison (grades 3-4), E. M. Bayfield (grades 1-2, 1926), B. A. Cann (grade 6, 1927), Margaret M. Gelley (grade 1), Margaret MacDonald (grade 4), Florence M. Russell (grade 5), Margaret Shaw (grade 6, 1926; grades 1-2, 1927), James Kenneth Watson (grades 7-8)
1927-1928	Fannie Bell Atchison (grades 3-4), Ethel May Carfoot (grades 6-7), Olive O’Neill (grades 1-2), Florence M. Russell (grade 5), Grant G. Watson (grades 7-8)
1928-1929	Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell, ?
1929-1930	Arthur Foster Brown, Alice E. Dafoe, Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell, Clara Sanderson
1930-1931	Arthur Foster Brown, Louise Mae Hudson, Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell, Clara Sanderson
1931-1932	Louise Mae Hudson, Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell, Clara Sanderson
1932-1933	Louise Mae Hudson, Lillian May McInnes, Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell, Clara Sanderson
1933-1934	Louise Mae Hudson, Lillian May McInnes, Olive O’Neill, Florence M. Russell
1934-1935	Louise Mae Hudson, ?
1935-1936	Louise Mae Hudson, ?
1936-1937	Louise Mae Hudson, ?
1937-1938	Louise Mae Hudson, Jeannie B. Lothrop, Stella Safaniuk, Annie Gertrude Stech
1938-1939	Louise Mae Hudson, Jeannie B. Lothrop, Stella Safaniuk, Pearl Mabel Smith, Annie Gertrude Stech
1939-1940	Louise Mae Hudson, Jeannie B. Lothrop, Stella Safaniuk, Annie Gertrude Stech
1940-1941	Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Stella Safaniuk, Annie Gertrude Stech
1941-1942	Genevieve Ann Craig, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Annie Gertrude Stech
1942-1943	Genevieve Ann Craig, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Annie Gertrude Stech
1943-1944	Genevieve Ann Craig, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Glenys Gertrude Pinkney
1944-1945	Genevieve Ann Craig, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Glenys Gertrude Pinkney
1945-1946	Genevieve Ann Craig, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Glenys Gertrude Pinkney
1946-1947	Genevieve Ann Craig, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Gertrude Maud Lowery
1947-1948	Genevieve Ann Craig, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Gertrude Maud Lowery, Anne Georgina Sanford
1948-1949	Genevieve Ann Craig, Bentina Erlendson, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Anne Georgina Sanford
1949-1950	Genevieve Ann Craig, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Annie Rose Riske, Margaret Campbell Supeene, Annie Rose Taylor
1950-1951	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Genevieve Ann Craig, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Isabel Georgina Muirhead, Margaret Campbell Supeene, Annie Rose Taylor, Margaret Wright
1951-1952	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, Eva Menzies Fallis, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Isabel Georgina Muirhead, Dorothy E. Ryan, Adolphe Sochoski, Annie Rose Taylor
1952-1953	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Edith Sophia Bethel, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, Eva Menzies Fallis, Carrie M. Garson, Louise Mae Hudson, Pat Jackson, Isabelle Lillian Leech, Louisa Loeb, Isabel Georgina Muirhead, Eleanor Lydia Siemens, Miss L. Mary Stangl, Annie Rose Taylor
1953-1954	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Edith Sophia Bethel, Melvin Borody, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, A. E. Duval, Eva Menzies Fallis, Martha Hilde Kendall, Helen Viola Kroeker, Ray Kuran, Isabel Georgina Muirhead, Elsie Eugenie Pottruff, Annie Rose Taylor, Robert James Wilson, Annie Elizabeth Worden
1954-1955	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Vera Gertrude Bell, Edith Sophia Bethel, Helen Viola Bock, Melvin Borody, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, A. E. Duval, Dorothy Dyson, Ina Dell Erlendson, Eva Menzies Fallis, Martha Hilde Kendall, Ray Kuran, Isabel Georgina Muirhead, John J. Pauls, Louise St. Mars, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Annie Elizabeth Worden
1955-1956	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Elizabeth Sophia Bethel, Dorothy Bilash, Phyllis Budyk, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, Dorothy Dyson, Ina Dell Erlendson, Mary Ellen Foster, Gladys May King, Una Darlene Kuran, John Alexander Melnyk, May Ryan, Margaret Reimer, Marion Louise Schick, Anne Shymko, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor
1956-1957	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Elizabeth Sophia Bethel, Phyllis Budyk, Genevieve Ann Craig, Frieda Duerksen, Judith Ann Latta, Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay, May Ryan, Joseph John Rebizant, Margaret Reimer, Ina Dell Erlendson Richardson, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Dorothy Vinsky, George Wall, Kathleen Helen Dale Wilson
1957-1958	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Edith Bethel, Frieda Duerksen, Judith Ann Latta, Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay, Donald Neil McTavish, Lorna C. Madill, Darcia Mandziuk, Charles George John Mastin, May Ryan, Margaret Reimer, Ina Dell Erlendson Richardson, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Dorothy Vinsky, George Wall
1958-1959	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Patricia C. Bonnell, Margaret Hooper, Hubert John Jonasson, Judith Ann Latta, Evelyn Gladys MacKinlay, Donald Neil McTavish, Lorna C. Madill, Darcia Mandziuk, May Ryan, Margaret Reimer, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Dorothy Vinsky, George Wall, Marie Vivian Wangen
1959-1960	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Frieda Duerksen, Blanche Doreen Erickson, Arthur Ben Funk, William Glitnak, Margaret Hooper, Hubert John Jonasson, Judith Ann Latta, Donald Neil McTavish, May Ryan, Margaret Reimer, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Marie Vivian Wangen, Annie Elizabeth Worden, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1960-1961	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Frieda Duerksen, Blanche Doreen Erickson, Arthur Ben Funk, William Glitnak, Margaret Hooper, Arleen Donna Lemkey, Donald Neil McTavish, May Ryan, Margaret Reimer, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Annie Elizabeth Worden, Donald Zaporzan, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1961-1962	Marion Anderson, Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Frieda Duerksen, Catherine Mary Dupont, Arthur Ben Funk, Margaret Hooper, Bonnie Jean Lang, Arlene Donna Lemkey, Donald Neil McTavish, Margaret Reimer, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Elizabeth Worden, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1962-1963	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Edith Sophia Bethel, Joan Brisley, Phyllis Budyk, Catherine Mary Dupont, Arthur Ben Funk, Hubert John Jonasson, Lorraine Wanda Kovachik, Arlene Donna Lemkey, Margaret Reimer, Bonnie Jean Lang Stanley, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Elizabeth Worden, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1963-1964	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Ronald Michael Bodner, Anne Lorraine Bowman, Phyllis Budyk, Catherine Mary Dupont, Hubert John Jonasson, Lorraine Wanda Kovachik, Arlene Donna Lemkey, Margaret Reimer, Bonnie Jean Lang Stanley, Margaret Tanchak, Annie Rose Taylor, Marcia Melba Trew, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1964-1965	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Ronald Michael Bodner, Anne Lorraine Bowman, Phyllis Budyk, Marlene Karen Chalmers, Catherine Mary Dupont, Eleanor Joan Ford, Arlene Donna Lemkey, Bonnie Jean Lang Stanley, Stephen Stanley Szucki, Marcia Melba Trew, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1965-1966	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Ronald Michael Bodner, Anne Lorraine Bowman, Phyllis Budyk, Marlene Karen Chalmers, Catherine Mary Dupont, Eleanor Joan Ford, James Gordon Ladoski, Arlene Donna Lemkey, Judith Gail Poley, Bonnie Jean Lang Stanley, Stephen Stanley Szucki, Marcia Melba Trew, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski
1966-1967	Kathleen Elizabeth Beachell, Anne Bowman, Marlene Chalmers, Marilyn Chudd, Margaret Coates, Catherine Dupont, Marcia Ewashko, Eleanor Ford, James Gordon Ladoski, Arlene Lemkey, Bonnie Stanley, Stephen Stanley Szucki, Marcia Melba Trew, Darcia Mandziuk Zemanski

Teachers (East Kildonan Collegiate)

School Year	Teachers
1921-1922	At Prince Edward School: James Hilton Moir (grade 9), Constance Irene Seale (grade 9)
1922-1923	At Prince Edward School: James Hilton Moir (grade 10), Constance Irene Seale (grade 9)
1923-1924	At Prince Edward School: S. W. Code (grade 9), James Hilton Moir (grade 11), Constance Irene Seale (grade 10)
1924-1925	At Prince Edward School: Harvey Willis Ferrier (grade 9), James Hilton Moir (grade 11), Constance Irene Seale (grade 10)
1925-1926	At Prince Edward School: Emma Embry (grade 9), Harvey Willis Ferrier (grade 9), James Hilton Moir (grade 11), Constance Irene Seale (grade 10)
1926-1927	At Prince Edward School: Harvey Willis Ferrier (grade 9), Alice Margaret Rowan Gray (grade 9), James Hilton Moir (grade 11), Constance Irene Seale (grade 10)
1927-1928	Esther A. Hinds (grade 9), Alice Margaret Rowan Gray (grade 9), James Hilton Moir (grade 11), Constance Irene Seale (grade 10)
1928-1929	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Bergthara Johnson, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1929-1930	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Bergthara Johnson, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1930-1931	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Bergthara Johnson, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1931-1932	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Bergthara Johnson, Lillian May McInnes, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1932-1933	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Bergthara Johnson, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1933-1934	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Arthur George Stanley Williams
1934-1935	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Arthur George Stanley Williams
1935-1936	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Arthur George Stanley Williams
1936-1937	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, David Stewart Small, Arthur George Stanley Williams
1937-1938	Frank Bowman, Richard Buck, Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, Anna Mima McIntyre, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Lillian Magdelen Weganest
1938-1939	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1939-1940	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Ronald Victor Shearer, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1940-1941	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1941-1942	Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Howard Robert Haines, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1942-1943	Frank Edmund Goldring, Alice Margaret Rowan Gray, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1943-1944	Frank Edmund Goldring, Helen B. Hawryluk, Margaret Eunice Lee, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1944-1945	Norris Davidson Belton, Frank Edmund Goldring, Helen B. Hawryluk, Margaret Eunice Lee, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1945-1946	Robert Henry Alexander Gray, Frank Edmund Goldring, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale
1946-1947	Robert Henry Alexander Gray, Helen B. Hawryluk, Margaret Eunice Lee, James Hilton Moir, Constance Irene Seale, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1947-1948	George William Chidley, Helen B. Hawryluk, James Edwin Scarrow, Constance Irene Seale, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1948-1949	George William Chidley, Margaret Eunice Lee, James Edwin Scarrow, Constance Irene Seale, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1949-1950	Robert Norman Currie, Margaret Eunice Lee, Emma Louise Reid, James Edwin Scarrow, Patricia Rose Taylor, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1950-1951	Robert Norman Currie, Margaret Eunice Lee, John Wesley Alexander “Jack” Muirhead, Emma Louise Reid, James Edwin Scarrow, Patricia Rose Taylor, Angela Caroline Thompson, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
1951-1952	Robert Norman Currie, Margaret Eunice Lee, John Wesley Alexander “Jack” Muirhead, James Edwin Scarrow, Patricia Rose Taylor, Angela Caroline Thompson, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
After 1952	See Miles Macdonell Collegiate

Photos & Coordinates

Lord Wolseley School (1922) Source: “East Kildonan boasts of fine schools,“ Winnipeg Tribune, 23 September 1922, page 19. Lord Wolseley School (August 1952) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7452, Album 17, Page 41. Lord Wolseley School (May 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Lord Wolseley School (August 2019) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.93289, W97.09759 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Wolseley School No. 305 (RM of Argyle)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Wolseley School (511 Clifton Street, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Miles Macdonell Collegiate (757 Roch Street, Winnipeg)

Sources:

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

“East Kildonan,” Winnipeg Tribune, 31 August 1921, page 6.

“East Kildonan boasts of fine schools,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 September 1922, page 19.

“East Kildonan school bell to call scholars Sept. 6,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 1949, page 3.

“E. Kildonan school staffs,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 August 1952, page 7.

[Photo caption], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 October 1953, page 22.

“Principal traded cards with kids,” Winnipeg Free Press Weekly Northeast Edition, 25 June 1989, page 1.

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

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

Manitoba School Records Collection, Lord Wolseley School (East Kildonan School District No. 14) Daily Registers, GR8245, Archives of Manitoba.

Lord Wolseley School by Jim Smith, NorthEast Winnipeg Historical Society.

A History of the East Kildonan Collegiate 1921-1952 by Jim Smith.

We thank Kris Templin and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Jim Smith, and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 19 February 2022

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