Historic Sites of Manitoba: Riverview School (Casey Street, Winnipeg)

In 1908, the Winnipeg School Board purchased a plot of land bounded by Casey and Fisher streets, and Bartlett and Maplewood avenues, and built a two-storey frame structure on it later that year, at the corner of Casey and Maplewood, on a design by architect J. B. Mitchell. It contained four classrooms and accommodated 196 students when it opened in November 1908. Ten years later, a one-storey annex with eight-classrooms were added. By 1922, the school’s enrollment was risen to 495 students. The present two-storey brick structure was built in 1929 under the supervision of W. A. Martin and, for a time, the original two-storey frame structure remained in front of it.

Principals of Riverview School

Period	Principal
1908-1931	Annie Rebecca Gordon (1877-?)
1931-1936	Ewart Horace Morgan (1896-1983)
1936-1938	Henry Emerson Snyder (1891-1984)
1938-1941	Charles Arthur Edward Hensley (c1893-1984)
1941-1944	John Elwood Ridd (1896-1986)
1944-1945	Duncan Scott McIntyre (1899-1975)
1945-1952	Carson Ephram Abercrombie (1900-1963)
1952-1955	Ronald Thornton Frederick Thompson (1907-1984)
1955-1957	Robert McIlroy Cross (?-1984)
1957-1964	Evelyn D. Cox (1913-2010)
1964-1969	Miss G. E. Menzies

Riverview School No. 1 (no date) Source: Winnipeg School Division Riverview School No. 1, with the second school behind it (no date) Source: Winnipeg School Division Riverview Schools No. 2 (left) and 1 (right) (no date) Source: Winnipeg School Division View Larger Map Riverview School Source: Google Site Location (lat/long): N49.86578, W97.12791 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ashland School (170 Ashland Avenue, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Riverview Commemorative Cairn (RM of Glenwood)

Sources:

“Winnipeg schools, No. 27—Riverview”, Manitoba Free Press, 16 November 1922, page 10.

Quiet Dignity: Aspects of Building Schools in the Winnipeg School Division No. 1, 1871-1928 by Giles Bugailiskis, MA thesis, Department of History, University of Manitoba, 1990.

We thank the Winnipeg School Division for providing additional information used here.

Information for this page was collected and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 20 May 2013

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