Historic Sites of Manitoba: Selkirk Collegiate Institute / Selkirk Junior High School (516 Stanley Avenue, Selkirk)

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In April 1956, construction began for a new high school in Selkirk to replace the previous Selkirk Collegiate building. Designed by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Prain and Ward, and built at a cost of $240,000, the frame, concrete, block, and brick-exterior facility contained ten classrooms along with a commercial room, laboratory, and auditorium. When classes began in September 1956, initial enrollment was 218 students, and the new building was occupied around October of that year. In 1971, high school students moved to the newly-constructed Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School and this building became a Junior High School.

A monument on the school grounds was built between 1966 and 1967 by the staff and students of the Selkirk Collegiate Institute to commemorate Canada’s centenary of Confederation.

Principals (Selkirk Collegiate Institute)

Period	Principal
Before 1947	See Devonshire Collegiate Institute
1947-1958	John Clayton Stewart (1906-1990)
1958-1960	William Wallace Cutforth (1910-1996)
1960-1966	Johann Edvald Sigurjonsson (1900-1972)
1966-1967	C. C. Whitoher
1967-1969	William “Bill” Regehr (1931-2016)
1969-1971	E. Dyck
After 1971	See Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School

Principals (Selkirk Junior High School)

Period	Principal
1971-2014	?
2014-?	Ms. K. Friesen

Teachers (Selkirk Collegiate Institute)

School Year	Teachers
1947-1950	?
1950-1951	Margaret Anderson (Vice-Principal), Anna B. Chambers, Louis Maurice, Mrs R. L. McDonald, Miss B. E. Nelson, George Sim, Miss A. Sozanky, James D. Stephen
1951-1952	Margaret Anderson, M. Borody, E. V. Cooke, Louis Maurice, Mrs. R. L. McDonald, George Sim
1952-1953	Margaret Anderson (Vice-Principal), H. H. Jorginson, Louis Maurice, J. McDonald, J. C. Michael, E. E. Nelson, A. Pelachty, M. T. Sheehan, J. D. Stephen
1953-1954	Margaret Anderson (Vice-Principal), Mrs. J. Chalmers, Miss F. M. Heler, D. M. Kent, Mrs. J. McDonald, Jean Michael, Miss B. E. Nelson, Miss T.M. Sheehan, and Mr. C. B. Tyler
1954-1955	Margaret Anderson (Vice-Principal), J. A. Brody, Jean Michael, Miss H. M. Heler, D. M. Kent (Grade 7), Mrs. J. McDonald (Grade 8), Miss B. E. Nelson, Miss M. T. Sheehan, Mr. C. B. Tyler (manual training)
1955-1956	Margaret Anderson (Vice-Principal), J. A. Brody, Miss F. M. Heler, D. M. Kent, B. Mandell, Mrs. J. A. McDonald, Jean Michael, A. R. Miller, Miss M. T. Sheehan
1956-1957	Margaret Anderson, Mrs. Ruth Gordon, K. Kihan, Mrs. J. McDonald, Jean Michael, F. Scarding, M. Stokoteiny (physical education), Valerie Tedd (home economics), Mr. C. B. Tyler (industrial arts), L. E. Wiess

Teachers (Selkirk Junior High School)

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Centenary of Canadian Confederation commemorative monument in front of Selkirk Junior High School (July 2016) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.14413, W96.88406 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“Vote for school,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1955, page 3.

“Tenders - New Selkirk High School,” Winnipeg Free Press, 20 March 1956, page 31.

“218 enrolled as new collegiate opens in Selkirk,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 September 1956, page 52.

“Selkirk teacher goes to bat for teenagers” by John Clayton Stewart, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 April 1957, page 40.

“Vocational teachers required,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 June 1970, page 54.

We thank Connor Macfarlane for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 August 2021

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