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The Selkirk School District was organized in December 1878. A two-storey brick school building was constructed along Eaton Avenue sometime before 1907. In September 1907, voters of the Selkirk School District decided by a 97 to 7 margin to spend $11,000 upgrading the building based on a design by Winnipeg architect William Fingland. After 1920, senior students were moved to the Devonshire Collegiate building nearby. The site is now the parking lot of a shopping mall.
It eventually became part of the Lord Selkirk School Division.
Principals
Principals (Junior High)
Teachers
School Year |
Teachers |
1879 |
? |
1880 |
? |
1881 |
? |
1882 |
? |
1883 |
Ernest Wall |
1884 |
Ernest Wall |
1885 |
John Acheson (Spring), Thomas Partington (Fall) |
1886 |
Thomas Partington |
1887 |
Minnie Blyth (Fall, junior grades), Felton Strudwicke [Strudwick] Chapman (Fall, senior grades), Thomas Partington (Spring, all grades) |
1888 |
Minnie Blyth (junior grades), Felton Strudwicke [Strudwick] Chapman (senior grades) |
1889 |
F. G. Brien (senior grades), Jessie Galloway (Spring, ? grades), Belle Scott (Spring, ? grades; Fall, junior grades) |
1890 |
F. G. Brien (senior grades), Mary McInnes (Spring, ? grades), Belle Scott (Spring, ? grades; Fall, junior grades) |
1891 |
Farquhar McRae (senior grades), Nellie Scarry (junior grades) |
1892 |
Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (senior grades), Nellie Scarry (junior grades) |
1893 |
Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (senior grades), Augusta S. Galloway (Spring), Ellie Marshall (Fall), Nellie Scarry |
1894 |
H. Black (Spring), Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (Spring, senior grades), Archibald Wesley Hooper (Fall, senior grades), Ellie Marshall (Fall), Nellie Scarry |
1895 |
Margaret Burnett (Fall), Archibald Wesley Hooper (senior grades), Abby Anna McKibbin (Fall; wife of Ernest James Motley), Matilda McKibbin (Fall), Ellie Marshall (Spring), Nellie Scarry (Spring) |
1896 |
M. Mauce Bruce, Margaret Burnett (Spring), Augusta S. Galloway (Spring), Archibald Wesley Hooper (senior grades), Abby Anna McKibbin (Fall), Matilda McKibbin |
1897 |
M. Mauce Bruce, Archibald Wesley Hooper (senior grades), Abby Anna McKibbin, Matilda McKibbin, Jean M. Wellwood (daughter of James Moncrieff Wellwood) |
1898 |
M. Mauce Bruce (Spring), Eva Cornell (Spring), Augusta S. Galloway, Archibald Wesley Hooper (senior grades), F? M. S. Howard (Spring), Matilda McKibbin (Fall), Mabel M. Talbot (Fall), Jean M. Wellwood (Fall) |
1899 |
Augusta S. Galloway (Spring), Edith C. Gemmel (), Hjortur Jonas Leo (Fall), Archibald Wesley Hooper (senior grades), Matilda McKibbin, Mabel M. Talbot, Grace Winkler (Fall) |
1900 |
Winifred N. Brown (Fall), Edith C. Gemmel (Spring), M. Lillian Gemmell (Fall), Percy Dewart Harris (Fall, senior grades), Hjortur Jonas Leo (Spring), Archibald Wesley Hooper (Spring, senior grades), Matilda McKibbin (Spring), Alex L. McLean (Fall), Thomas Boniface Molloy (Fall), Ethel O’Dounell? (Fall), Alice M. Sherrin? (Fall), Mabel M. Talbot (Spring), Grace Winkler (Spring) |
1901 |
Winifred N. Brown, Edith C. Gemmel, Lilian Gemmell (Fall), Percy Dewart Harris (senior grades), Eleanor Jones (Fall), Archie L. McLean (Spring), Thomas Boniface Molloy (Spring), Hannah W. Sutherland, W. Van Dusen (Fall), Helen S. Young |
1902 |
? |
1903 |
? |
1904 |
? |
1905 |
Mansell Allan Davis (Fall), E. Grace Galloway, Edith C. Gemmel, Winifred Gilmore, ?. H. Harris (Spring), Mollis McGregor (Fall), Helen M. Tracy, Norman Benson Tufts (Spring), Jean Urquhart, Hugh William Watson (Spring), Helen S. Young |
1906 |
Evelyn I. Colborne (high school grades), Edith C. Gemmel, Winifred Gilmore (Spring), E. Grace Greenway, Ray H. Hall, Jean M. Lyon (Fall), Mollie McGregor, A. A. Neil (Fall, high school grades), Josephine M. Seamlow? (Fall), Helen M. Tracy (Fall), Norman Benson Tufts (Spring, high school grades), Gertrude Warner (Spring), Asenart? Way, Helen S. Young |
1907 |
? |
1908 |
? |
1909 |
? |
1910 |
? |
1911 |
? |
1912 |
(Spring only): ? |
1912-1913 |
? |
1913-1914 |
Miss Hountton, Miss Orton |
1914-1915 |
? |
1915-1916 |
? |
1916-1917 |
? |
1917-1918 |
? |
1918-1919 |
? |
1919-1920 |
Annie Calder (grades 5-6), Mrs. G. Radcliffe (grades 5-6) |
1920-1921 |
? |
1921-1922 |
Miss Chambers, Miss Cornish, Miss Alice Daly, Miss Hall, Miss Mann, Miss McIntyre, Miss Newton, Miss D. Teeter |
1922-1923 |
? |
1923-1924 |
? |
1924-1925 |
? |
1925-1926 |
? |
1926-1927 |
? |
1927-1928 |
? |
1928-1929 |
? |
1929-1930 |
? |
1930-1931 |
? |
1931-1932 |
? |
1932-1933 |
Elementary Department: Mrs. J. Finnsson, Miss E. McKay, Maude Nixon, Ruth Swanson. Junior High Department: Mrs. W. M. Angus, Eleanor Flint, Phylis M. Frank |
1933-1934 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Eleanor Flint, Phylis M. Frank |
1934-1935 |
? |
1935-1936 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Miss J. Finnsson, Eleanor Flint, Phylis M. Frank, Alda Jones, Maude Nixon, Ruth Swanson |
1936-1937 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, N. B. Barick, Eleanor Flint, Phylis M. Frank, Miss A. Jones, Maude Nixon, Ruth Swanson |
1937-1938 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, J. B. Barrick BSc, Eleanor Flint, Phylis M. Frank, Alda Jones, Maude Nixon, Ruth Swanson |
1938-1939 |
? |
1939-1940 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Phylis M. Frank, Elsie McKay, Maude Nixon, Ruth Swanson, Clifford G. Williamson |
1940-1941 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Phylis M. Frank, Alda Jones, Kathleen MacQueen, Elsie McKay, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Ruth Swanson, Clifford G. Williamson |
1941-1942 |
Mrs. W.M. Angus, Verna Gunter, T. Harriott, Alda Jones, Elsie McKay, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Miss J. S. Olafson, Ruth Swanson |
1942-1943 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Elsie McKay, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Miss J. S. Olafson, Ruth Swanson, Mrs. C. Wright |
1943-1944 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Miss J. S. Olafson, Mrs. C. P. Reid, Ruth Swanson, Miss R. Thackeray, Mrs. C. Wright |
1944-1945 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Mrs. E. I. Dewar, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Miss J. S. Olafson, Mrs. C. P. Reid, Ruth Swanson, Miss R. Thackeray, Mr. C. B. Tyler (manual training) |
1945-1946 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus, Mrs. E. S. Dewar, Mrs. J. J. Moody, Miss J. S. Olafson, Ila Purdy, Ruth Swanson, Mr. C. B. Tyler |
1946-1947 |
Mrs. W. M. Angus (grades 7 & 8), Miss A. Benoit (grades 7 & 8), Miss M. Lebit (grades 7 & 8), Alda Jones (grade 3), Mrs. Louise Jones (grades 7 & 8), Mrs. J. J. Moody (grade 2), Miss I. Purdy (grade 1), Ruth Swanson (grades 4 & 5), Mr. C. B. Tyler (manual workshop) |
Chairs of the Selkirk School Board
Photos & Coordinates
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Devonshire School (Main Street, Selkirk)
Sources:
“Provincial paragraphs,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 18 October 1882, page 2.
“Tenders,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 April 1907, page 24.
“Selkirk schools,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 September 1907, page 12.
“Petition against new fisheries law,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 24 May 1910, page 11.
“Selkirk news and local events,” Manitoba Free Press, 15 August 1914, page 31.
“Selkirk, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, September 1916, Library and Archives Canada.
“Selkirk,” Manitoba Free Press, 27 December 1919, page 16.
“Selkirk,” Manitoba Free Press, 31 August 1920, page 11.
“Interesting newsy items from Selkirk,” Manitoba Free Press, 6 September 1921, page 4.
“Grade 12 to be tought [sic] at Selkirk Collegiate,” Winnipeg Tribune, 14 September 1932, page 3.
“Four Selkirk schools open for fall season,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 September 1933, page 11.
“Many present as school goes in at Selkirk,” Winnipeg Tribune, 5 September 1935, page 3.
“Selkirk schools open,” Winnipeg Tribune, 3 September 1936, page 3.
“Teachers are named for Selkirk schools,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 August 1937, page 2.
“One thousand pupils for Selkirk schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 30 August 1939, page 2.
“Thousand to enroll in Selkirk schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 29 August 1940, page 4.
“Schools of Selkirk to reopen Tuesday,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 September 1941, page 3.
“Selkirk schools open,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 September 1942, page 2.
“Schools to reopen in Selkirk Sept. 7,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 August 1943, page 10.
“Personalities,” Manitoba School Journal, Vol. 6, No. 9, May 1944, page 2.
“Selkirk schools to reopen Tuesday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 31 August 1944, page 3.
“Selkirk school staff engage for new term,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 August 1945, page 19.
“Selkirk school staff named,” Winnipeg Tribune, 31 August 1946, page 20.
“Selkirk schools re-open on Monday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 August 1949, page 19.
“School starts Sept. 1 for Selkirk pupils,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 August 1955, page 12.
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 December 2022
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