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

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

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

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)
1923-1924	?
1924-1947	James Hilton Moir (1882-1955)
1947-1952	James Edwin Scarrow (1902-1982)
1952-1959	Leslie Wilmot Wiley (1910-1996)
1959-1961	Robert Henry Alexander Gray (1917-2010)
1961-1964	Marion Anderson (?-1983)
1964-1968	John A. Melnyk
1968-1969	?
1969-1972	Orest Lazaruk (1932-2008)
?-?	Val Kovachik (1933-2005)

Vice-Principals

Period	Vice-Principal
1952-1953	M. Borody

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1921-1922	Miss Dorothy Turner, Miss Gladys Robertson, Miss Lucille Gelley, Miss Jessie McDonald, and Miss Oneita Cameron
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1949-1950	Miss G. Craig, R. N. Currie, Mrs. G. Garson, Miss L. M. Hudson, Mrs. M. E. Lee, Miss A. Riske, Mrs. M. Supeene, Mrs. A. R. Taylor, Miss P. Taylor, Leslie Wilmot Wiley
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1952-1953	Mrs. K. E. Beachell, Mrs. E. Bethel, Miss G. A. Craig, Mrs. F. Duerksen, Mrs. E. M. Fallis, Mrs. C. M. Garson, Miss L. M. Hudson, Miss P. Jackson, Miss L. Leech, Mrs. L. Leob, Mrs. I. G. Muirhead, Miss E. Siemens, Miss L. M. Stangl, and Mrs. A. R. Taylor

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.

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

We thank Jim Smith, Nathan Kramer, Kris Templin, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 September 2020

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