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The St. Charles School District was established in March 1921 and, by the autumn, a one-storey, three-room stone and brick school building was constructed by contractor Patrick H. Hedges, on Lot 94 in St. Charles. A small room on a mezzanine between the two classrooms served as a library and “scolding room.” The school was paid for with the district issuing of two debentures, first for $30,000 in May 1921 to purchase a site, build the school, and then equip and furnish the schoolhouse. A further $20,000 in debentures were issued in January 1922 to complete the schoolhouse, following a vote of local ratepayers by a count of 35 in favour to 5 opposed. A small stable behind the building accommodated the horses ridden by students to school. In 1946, a third teacher was hired to teach a class housed in the basement.
In 1955, four more classrooms designed by the architectural firm of Smith Carter and Katelnikoff were constructed on the back of the building and, four years later, laboratories, a gymnasium, and more classroms were added, bringing the total classroom complement to twelve. In 1963, the district opened a second educational facility in Buchanan School. In 1967, the school became part of the Assiniboine North School Division. As student enrollment declined through the 1970s, especially after construction Hedges Junior High School, the number of classrooms in active use decreased. Finally, in June 1983, with only 146 students, the school closed and the remaining students moved to Buchanan School. The building was demolished and its cornerstone (laid on 22 July 1921 by Deputy Education Minister Robert Fletcher) was also transferred to Buchanan.
Period
Principal
1921-1924
Annie Cameron (1879-1963)
1924
C. L. Fleche
1924-1927
Flora Isabell [Isabelle] “Flo” Pollock (1902-1981)
1927-1929
Grace Ida McNicholl Keith (1905-1995)
1929-1931
Jean Winnifred Gower Livingstone Lower (1906-1996)
1931-1940
Ruby Marian Douglas (1908-1997)
1940-1941
Jemima Isabelle MacLean
1941-1942
Violet Mary Foot
1942-1944
Bernice May McClelland Bedsworth (1921-2017)
1944-1945
Olga Ciotka?
1945
Julie S. Ryck
1946
Julia Rich
1946-1949
William Connell Murray
1949-1951
Boris Shewchuk
1951
Matthew Samuel Pritchard Glowe (1926-2015)
1952-1953
Mary Emma Watson
1953-1954
Muriel Philippe
1954-1955
Mary Samborski [Samboyka?]
1955
Farquhar Nicolson (1898-1979)
1956
Marjorie Ellen Geddes
1956-1967
Peter Slonowski [Sloan] (c1927-2015)
1967-1968
Thaddeus Edward “Ted” Witoski (1932-2014)
1968-1970
Ron Sigurdson
1970-1973
Lyall Evert Sims (1930-1996)
1973-1977
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1977-1983
Nell Angela Ruchkall Ramsay (1925-2016)
Period
Vice-Principal
1963-1965
Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (1939-2017)
Period
Teachers
1921-1922
Annie Cameron (grades 5-10), Regina Champagne (grades 1-4)
1922-1923
Annie Cameron (grades 5-10), Regina Champagne (grades 1-4)
1923-1924
Annie Cameron (grades 5-9), Flora Isabell Pollock (grades 1-4)
1924-1925
C. L. Fleche (grades 5-9, September-?), Gladys Georgina Griffith (grades 1-4, Spring), Kathleen Isobelle Milligan (grades 1-4, pt. Fall), Flora Isabell Pollock (grades 1-4, September-?; grades 5-9, ?-December & January-June)
1925-1926
Gladys Georgina Griffith (grades 1-3), Flora Isabell Pollock (grades 4-9)
1926-1927
Grace Ida McNicholl (grades 1-4), Flora Isabell Pollock (grades 5-9)
1927-1928
Grace Ida McNicholl (grades 5-8), Ruth Robson Mitchell (grades 1-4)
1928-1929
Grace Ida McNicholl (grades 5-8), Ruth Robson Mitchell (grades 1-4)
1929-1930
Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4, Spring), Jean Winnifred Gower Livingstone (grades 5-10), Ruth Robson Mitchell (grades 1-4, Fall)
1930-1931
Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4), Jean Winnifred Gower Livingstone (grades 5-10)
1931-1932
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1932-1933
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 1-9, Fall; grades 5-9, Spring), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4, Spring)
1933-1934
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1934-1935
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1935-1936
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1936-1937
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1937-1938
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1938-1939
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1939-1940
Ruby Marian Douglas (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1940-1941
Jemima Isabelle MacLean (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1941-1942
Violet Mary Foot (grades 5-9), Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4)
1942-1943
Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4), Bernice May McClelland (grades 5-9)
1943-1944
Mary Helen Hollingshead (grades 1-4), Bernice May McClelland (grades 5-9)
1944-1945
Olga Ciotka? (grades 5-8), Edna Marion Dack (grades 1-4, September-December; wife of John Edward Dack), Gudbjorg Eggertson (grades 1-4, January-June)
1945-1946
Hilda Johanna Arnason (grades 4-6, August-? pt. Fall), Miss James (grades 4-6, pt. Fall), Elsie Margueritte Paxton (grades 4-6, pt. Fall - June), Julia Rich (grades 7-11, January-June), Julie S. Ryck (grades 7-11, September-December), Claire Valcourt (grades 1-3)
1946-1947
William Connell Murray (grades 7-9), Alice O’Kane (grades 1-3), Elsie Margueritte Paxton (grades 4-6)
1947-1948
Muriel Jean Alexander (grades 1-3, January-June), William Connell Murray (grades 7-9), Alice O’Kane (grades 1-3, September-December), Elsie Margueritte Paxton (grades 4-6)
1948-1949
William Connell Murray (grades 7-9), Bernice Stober (grades 1-3), Eleanor M. Zilke (grades 4-6)
1949-1950
Christina Fraser (grades 1-3), Boris Shewchuk (grades 7-9), Bernice Stober (grades 1-3)
1950-1951
Anne K. Lentourch (grades 1-3), Mrs. Fred Pawluk (graeds 4-6), Boris Shewchuk (grades 6-9)
1951-1952
Matthew Samuel Pritchard Glowe (grades 6-9, September-December), Olga Kiedyk (grades 4-6), Anne K. Lentourch (grades 1-3), Mary Emma Watson (grades 6-9, January-June)
1952-1953
Anne K. Lentourch (grades 1-2), Susan Letandre (grades 3-5), Mary Emma Watson (grades 6-9)
1953-1954
Anne K. Lentourch (grades 1-2), Muriel Philippe (grades 6-9), Jemima Florence Webster (grades 3-5)
1954-1955
Anne K. Lentourch (grades 1-2), Mary Samborski [Samboyka?] (grades 6-9), Jemima Florence Webster (grades 3-5)
1955-1956
Enid E. Clarke (grades 5-6, January-June), Marjorie Ellen Geddes (grades 7-9, January-June), Olga Jean Goytan? (grade 1), Anne K. Lentourch (grades 2-3), Farquhar Nicolson? (grades 7-9, September-December), Helen G. Pashnitski (grades 3-4), Vera I. Orrell Stephens (grades 5-6, September-December)
1956-1957
Marion Ann Danko (grade 2, September-December & January-?), Marjorie Ellen Gedes (grade 2, ?-June), Irene Korny (grade 1), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grades 3-4), Gisele Pauline Regina (grades 5-6), Peter Slonowski (grades 7-9)
1957-1958
Val Kovachik (grades 7-8), Odette M. Lachance (grades 5-6), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grades 2-3), Lorraine Murray (grade 1), Yvette Alice Perrault (grades 3-4), Peter Slonowski (grades 9-10)
1958-1959
Paula Ruth Blant (grade 1), Odette M. Lachance (grades 5-6), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Yvette Alice Perrault (grade 4), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grades 7-8), Peter Slonowski (grades 9-11), Margaret Shirley Yaskiw (grade 3)
1959-1960
Edith Helen Johnson (grades 5-6, January-June), Odette M. Lachance (grades 5-6, September-December), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 1), Grace Millar (grade 1), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 7), Yvette Alice Perrault (grades 4-5), Peter Slonowski(grade 8), Margaret Shirley Yaskiw (grade 3)
1960-1961
Edith Helen Johnson (grade 5), Yvette Alice Perrault La Fleche (grade 4), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grades 1-2), Grace Millar (grade 1), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 6), Peter Slonowski (grades 7-8), Margaret Shirley Yaskiw (grade 3)
1961-1962
Joan Elaine Cameron (grade 1, January-June), Eileen Marie Fizer (grades 2-3, January-June), Edith Helen Johnson (grade 5), Stephanie Karalash (grades 1-2, September-December), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Grace Millar (grade 3), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 7), Oliver Lawrence Overby (grade 6), Joan Monsina Sandven (grade 1), Peter Slonowski (grade 8)
1962-1963
Ethel Lylle Finnboganson (grade 1), Eileen Marie Fizer (grade 2), Edith Helen Johnson (grade 5), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Grace Millar (grade 3), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 7), Oliver Lawrence Overby (grade 6), Joan Monsina Sandven (grade 1), James W. Sharkey (graeds 3-4), Peter Slonowski (grade 8)
1963-1964
Harold Leonard Driedger (grades 6-7), Edith Helen Johnson (grade 5), Helen Kelbert (grades 5-6), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Grace Millar (grade 3), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 8), Oliver Lawrence Overby (grade 7), Joan Monsina Sandven (grade 1)
1964-1965
Harold Leonard Driedger (grade 6), Mary Lou Frances Gaskin (kindergarten), Leonard Alfred Gellert (grade 8), Aaron Hildebrand (grade 6), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), James Alexander Logan (grade 8), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Grace C. Millar (grade 3), Lesia Minarik (grade 1), Christopher Shaughnessy O’Grady (grade 7), Jean Yvonne Peters (grade 5), Mary Zamuda (grade 5)
1965-1966
Harold Leonard Driedger (grade 6), Mary Lou Frances Gaskin (kindergarten), Leonard Alfred Gellert (grade 8), Constance Gertrude Guthrie (grade 7), Aaron Hildebrand (grade 6), James Alexander Logan (grade 6), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Grace Millar (grade 3), Jean Yvonne Peters (grade 5), Valery Beverley Pokrant (grade 1)
1966-1967
Leanore Ann Beaman (grade 8), Ruth Estelle Carruthers (AM kindergarten; pt Fall - February), Mary Lou Frances Gaskin (AM kindergarten; pt Fall & February-June; PM kindergarten; September-June), Dora Kremer (grade 8), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (grade 2), James Alexander Logan (grade 7), Mary Charlotte Pinn McLachlan (grade 4), Grace Millar (grade 3), Fernand Joseph Normandin (grade 7), Jean Yvonne Peters (grade 5), Valery Beverley Pokrant (grade 1), Jane McKenzie Seal (French), Sylvia Jean Twerdochlib (grade 6)
1967-1968
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1968-1969
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1969-1970
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1970-1971
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1971-1972
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1972-1973
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1973-1974
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1974-1975
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1975-1976
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1976-1977
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1977-1978
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1978-1979
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1979-1980
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1980-1981
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1981-1982
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1982-1983
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St. Charles School (circa 1930) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 88.
Students in grades 4-6 at St. Charles School (1945-1946)
Source: Brenda BeckSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88275, W97.32284
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49
Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. Charles Convent / St. Charles Catholic School (331 St. Charles Street, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: St. Charles School No. 826 / Beauchemin School / Charleswood School No. 826 (Roblin Boulevard, Winnipeg)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Tender notice [Four-classroom addition to St. Charles School],” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 June 1955, page 28.
A Brief History of Buchanan Elementary School, St. James Assiniboia School Division.
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #10 School District of St. Charles, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #1 School District of St. Charles, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #45 School District of St. Charles, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank the St. James - Assiniboia School Division and Brenda Beck for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 February 2024
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