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The Winnipeg Beach School District was established formally in March 1905 and a one-room wood frame building was erected on Lot 17, Block F, Plan 1074, in the Town of Winnipeg Beach. An additional room was added in the autumn of 1916, funded via a $3,500 debenture. Three rooms were added to the original structure in 1920, which was used until 1946.
To accommodate a rise in student enrollment after the Second World War, in 1946 a new one-room building (known as “The Apple Box”) was constructed immediately north of the main building. As enrollment continued to rise, space was rented in the Town Hall. Finally, in 1949, a modern six-classroom wood frame building was built and the old school was demolished. Three years later, an influx of military personnel to the area necessitated the use of The Apple Box for classes.
Winnipeg Beach School reverted to an elementary facility in 1959, as high school students were bused to Gimli High School. In April 1967, the district was dissolved into the Evergreen School Division. A monument at the former school site was unveiled during a reunion on 24 July 1988, and rededicated at another reunion in July 2001.
Period
Principal
1915
M. Edith Moore
1915
M. V. Whiteford
1916-1918
Peter Robert Loutit (1878-1961)
1918-1919
W. E. McCann
1919-1920
J. McCormick
1920
Olive Evelyn
1921
Ruth Elizabeth Ewen
1921-1923
Daniel Frederick “Fred” McNeill (c1879-1956)
1923-1924
Ilo Elizabeth McHaffie McDonald (1899-1988)
1924-1925
Robert MacLaren Keswick (1894-1938)
1925-1929
John Sigfus Helgason (?-1978)
1929-1932
Benjamin Franklin Olson (1898-1981)
1932-1934
Charles William Howard Griggs (1909-1996)
1934-1938
Hippolyte Johanny “John” Wickey (1899-1994)
1938-1940
Charles Manly Belton (1908-1990)
1940-1942
John Saxby “Jack” Oliver (1910-1992)
1943-1944
James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1944-1959
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (c1912-1982)
1959-1960
John Joseph Kereluk
1960-1962
Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke
1962-1983
Ronald Michael “Roman/Ron” Hladun (1927-2016)
1983-1984
Mr. Kustiak (Acting)
1984-1985
Mr. Kustiak
1985-1986
?
1986-?
Larry Moore
Period
Vice-Principal
1983-1984
Larry Moore (Acting)
1984-1985
Larry Moore
School Year
Teachers
1905
Ida M. Van Blaricom (all grades, May-August), Anna Hollins Muckle (all grades, October-December)
1906
Kathleen Gardner (grades 1-8, February-June), Anna Hollins Muckle (grades 1-8, January), Gertrude Sullivan (grades 1-8, September-December)
1907
Janet Sophia Cumming (grades 1-6, February-June & September-December)
1908
Janet Sophia Cumming (grades 1-6, January-June; married William John “Billy” Wood), Edith May Griffis (grades 1-6, September-December)
1909
Edith May Griffis (grades 1-7, January-June & September-December)
1910
Edith May Griffis (grades 1-7, January-June & September-December)
1911
Edith May Griffis (grades 1-8, January-June & September-December)
1912
(January-June only): Edith May Griffis (grades 1-8)
1912-1913
Frederick Ladlay “Fred” Bousfield (grades 1-9, February-June), George Andrew Duncan (grades 1-9, January), Charles Arthur Edward Hensley (grades 1-9, February), Maude Poppelwell (grades 1-9, September-December)
1913-1914
Frank A. Edgerly (grades 1-8, September-June)
1914-1915
Maude C. Lithell (grades 1-3, January-June), M. Edith Moore (grades 1-8, September-December, grades 4-8, January-June)
1915-1916
Jean M. Leomine (grades 1-3, August-December & January-June), M. V. Whiteford (grades 4-7, August-December), Peter Robert Loutit (grades 4-7, January-June)
1916-1917
Jean M. Lemoine (grades 1-3), Peter Robert Loutit (grades 4-7)
1917-1918
Phoebe Anderson (grades 1-3), Peter Robert Loutit (grades 4-9)
1918-1919
(school closed November-December due to influenza), M. Burrows (grades 1-4, October-November), Mrs. W. H. Cook (grades 1-4, September), Mary Kerr (grades 1-4, January-June), W. E. McCann (grades 5-10, September-November & January-February), J. McCormick (grades 5-10, March-June)
1919-1920
Mary Kerr (grades 1-4), J. McCormick (grads 5-11)
1920-1921
Grace Cahill (grades 5-10, October-November), Olive Evelyn (grades 5-10, September), Ruth Elizabeth Ewen (grades 5-10, January-June), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-4)
1921-1922
Ruth Elizabeth Ewen (grades 4-6), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-3), Daniel Frederick McNeill (grades 8-11)
1922-1923
Gladys E. Findlay (grades 4-6, January-June), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-3), Daniel Frederick McNeill (grades 8-11), Una Williams (grades 4-6, September-December)
1923-1924
Gladys E. Findlay (grades 4-6), Ilo Elizabeth McHaffie McDonald (grades 8-11), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-3)
1924-1925
Jean Richardson (grades 4-6, October-December), Gladys E. Findlay (grades 4-8, September-October; grades 7-8, November-June), Robert MacLaren Keswick (grades 8-11, September; grades 9-11 October-June), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-3), Gladys R. Mann (grades 4-6, January-June)
1925-1926
John Sigfus Helgason (grades 9-11, September-December; grades 7-11, January-June), Olive E. McIndoe (grades 1-4, September-December), Verna O. Mayhew (grades 1-3, January-June), Grace M. Zealand (grades 5-8, September-December; grades 4-6, January-June)
1926-1927
John Sigfus Helgason (grades 7-11), Louise Mae Hudson (grades 4-6), Verna O. Mayhew (grades 1-3, September-December; grades 1-2, January-June)
1927-1928
John Sigfus Helgason (grades 7-11), Louise Mae Hudson (grades 4-6), M. A. Lousley (grades 1-3)
1928-1929
John Sigfus Helgason (grades 6-11), Louise Mae Hudson (grades 3-6), Verna O. Mayhew (grades 1-2, September-January & February-June), A. Segall (grades 1-2, January)
1929-1930
Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 4-6), Benjamin Franklin Olson (grades 7-10), Mary Opal Smith (grades 2-3)
1930-1931
Janet Isabelle Hall (grade 1), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 4-6), Benjamin Franklin Olson (grades 7-10), Mary Opal Smith (grades 2-3)
1931-1932
Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-7), Benjamin Franklin Olson (grades 8-11), Mary Opal Smith (grades 3-4)
1932-1933
Charles William Howard Griggs (grades 7-10), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Mary Opal Smith (grades 3-4)
1933-1934
Charles William Howard Griggs (grades 7-10), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Mary Opal Smith (grades 3-4)
1934-1935
Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Mary Opal Smith (grades 3-4), Hippolyte Johanny “John” Wickey (grades 7-10)
1935-1936
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-4), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Hippolyte Johanny “John” Wickey (grades 7-10)
1936-1937
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-4), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Hippolyte Johanny “John” Wickey (grades 7-10)
1937-1938
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-4), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Amy Jean Mitchell (grades 5-6), Hippolyte Johanny “John” Wickey (grades 7-10)
1938-1939
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-4), Charles Manly Belton (grades 9-11), Archie William Grassie (grades 6-8), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2)
1939-1940
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-5), Charles Manly Belton (grades 9-11), Archie William Grassie (grades 6-8, September-December), Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-2), Helen Emily Medynski (grades 6-8, January-June)
1940-1941
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-5), William Harold Copeland (grades 6-8), John Saxby “Jack” Oliver (grades 9-11), Dorothy Jean Willson (grades 1-2)
1941-1942
Octavia Anderson (grades 3-5), Marion Catherine Askew (grades 6-8), Doris Genevieve Gill (grades 1-2), John Saxby “Jack” Oliver (grades 9-11)
1942-1943
Marion Catherine Askew (grades 6-8), Doris Genevieve Gill (grades 1-2), William Sanford Kirbyson (grades 3-5), James Andrew McKaughan (grades 9-11, January-June), John Saxby “Jack” Oliver (grades 9-11, September-December)
1943-1944
Doris Genevieve Gill (grades 1-2, September-December), Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-2, January-June), Jonina Ellen Gunnlaugson (grades 6-8), William Sanford Kirbyson (grades 3-5), James Andrew McKaughan (grades 9-11)
1944-1945
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Jonina Ellen Gunnlaugson (grades 6-8), Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-3, September; grades 1-2, October-June), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4, October-June), Kathleen Mary Ritchey (grades 5-6)
1945-1946
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-2), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Jessie Rosalie Proctor (grades 7-8), Mavis Ellen Townson (grades 5-6)
1946-1947
Alphonsine Coutu (grades 5-6), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Joyce Ethel Dickson (grades 7-8, September-December), Ethel Greenberg (grades 1-2), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Ljotun Thorsteinsson (grades 7-8, January-June)
1947-1948
Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8; sibling of Edward Alva Chesley), Marie Coulson (grades 1-2, September-June), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), J. Gray (grades 1-2, September), Helen Rose Osiowy (grades 5-6), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4)
1948-1949
Nellie E. Chesley (grades 5-6), Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), Marie Coulson (grade 2), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Emily Thorne (grade 1)
1949-1950
Nellie E. Chesley (grades 5-6), Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), Alphonsine Coutu (grades 2-3), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Joan Edith Woodard (grade 1)
1950-1951
Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), George Michael Colton (grades 5-6), Alphonsine Coutu (grades 2-3), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 4), Joan Edith Woodard (grade 1)
1951-1952
Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), George Michael Colton (grades 5-6), Doris Lorraine Corbin (grade 5), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Evelyn Laura Lambert (grades 2-3), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Aurise Louise Smith (grade 1)
1952-1953
Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), George Michael Colton (grade 6), Doris Lorraine Corbin (grades 4-5), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Eugenia Huhtala (grades 1-2), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Aurise Louise Smith (grade 1)
1953-1954
Tom Chelsey (grades 7-8), George Michael Colton (grades 6-7), Doris Lorraine Corbin (grades 4-5), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Laura Belle Grant (grade 2), Lona [Iona?] Marie Elizabeth Huhtala (grade 1), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4)
1954-1955
George Michael Colton (grade 7), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 9-11), Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 8), Viola Lipinski (grades 5-6), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 4)
1955-1956
Elsie Anne “Annie” Allen (grades 4-5), George Michael Colton (grades 7-8), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 10-11), Laura Belle Grant (grade 2), Olga Huminicki (grade 1), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 9), Viola Lipinski (grades 6-7), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4)
1956-1957
Elsie Anne “Annie” Allen (grades 4-5), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 10-11), Laura Belle Grant (grade 2), Olga Huminicki (grade 1), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 9), Elizabeth Carolyn Menzel (grade 6), Carolina Victoria Panagapka (grades 7-8), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 3)
1957-1958
Elsie Anne “Annie” Allen (grades 5-6), John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 10-11), Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 9), Florida M. Martel (grades 7-8), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1958-1959
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 10-11), Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 9), Susan Letandre (grades 7-8), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 4), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1959-1960
Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grades 7-8), John Joseph Kereluk (grade 9), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 4), Freda Psooy (grade 5), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grade 6)
1960-1961
Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 8), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 6-7)
1961-1962
Edward John Choptiuk (grades 5-6), Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Olga Huminicki (grade 1), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 8), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 4-5), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grade 7)
1962-1963
Edward John Choptiuk (grades 3-4), Laura Belle Grant (grades 2), Ronald Hladun (grade 8), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 7), Viola Lipinski (grade 1), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1963-1964
Laura Belle Grant (grades 2-3), Ronald Hladun (grade 8), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grades 6-7), Viola Lipinski (kindergarten), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1964-1965
Ronald Hladun (grade 8), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 7), Viola Lipinski (kindergarten & grade 3, September; grade 3, September-June), Elizabeth Gwendoline McKenzie (grade 3, October-December), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grade 4), Michael “Mike” Reichenhaller (grade 3, January-June), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1965-1966
Mrs. E. Bochurka (grades 4-5, September), Ronald Hladun (grade 8), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 7), Viola Lipinski (kindergarten), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), George T. Reimer (grades 4-5, October-June), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grades 5-6)
1966-1967
Ronald Hladun (grade 8), Olga Huminicki (grades 1-2), Noreen Olga Isfeld (grade 6), L. Olga Long (grade 7), Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke (grades 3-4), Josephine Hilda Zeller (grade 5)
1967-1968
Cecilia Atkinson, Jean M. Chartrand, Clairette Clement-Adams, Roselyn G. Diachun, Ronald Hladun, Noreen Olga Isfeld , Margaret R. Komar, Olga Huminicki, Doris Genevieve Gill Pilatzke, Margaret Wawrykow, Josephine Hilda Zeller
1968-1969
?
1969-1970
?
1970-1971
?
1971-1972
Roselyn G. Diachun, Miss J. Gembey, Ronald Hladun, Olga Huminicki, Margaret Komar, Larry Moore, Mr. G. C. Peake, Miss L. Sturk
1972-1973
?
1973-1974
?
1974-1975
Denise Bilan, Ronald Hladun, Olga Huminicki, Margaret Komar, Grace Lee, Robert McClellan, Larry Moore, May Peiluck
1975-1976
?
1976-1977
?
1977-1978
?
1978-1979
?
1979-1980
?
1980-1981
?
1981-1982
?
1982-1983
?
1983-1984
Denise Bilan (French), Ronald Hladun (grade 4), Olga Huminicki (grade 4), Mrs. Jonsson (physical education substitute), Margaret Komar (grades 1-2), Larry Moore (grade 6), Mrs. Myketa (teacher aide), Mrs. Peiluk (grade 5), Eunice Timgren (music; kindergarten substitute), Mrs. Yurchi (kindergarten and physical education), Ann Wiens (special education / resource), Mrs. Wilson (library and secretary)
1984-1985
Denise Bilan (French), Olga Huminiski (grade 4; grade 6 science), Mrs. Jonsson (physical education; grade 6 social studies), Margaret Komar (grades 1-2), Larry Moore (grade 6), Mrs. Peiluk (grade 5), Eunice Timgren (kindergarten and music), Ann Wiens (special education / resource), Mrs. Wilson (library and secretary)
1985-1986
?
1986-1987
Larry Moore (grade 6), Margaret Komar (grade 1; grade 6 health), Eunice Timgren (grade 5; grade 6 art), Paula Loewen (grade 6 social studies), Ron Hladun (grade 4; grade 6 science), Olga Huminiski (grades 2-3), Jane Nichols (kindergarten), Denise Bilan (French), Ann Wiens (special education / resource), Paula Loewen (physical education)
Winnipeg Beach School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 99.
Postcard view of the first Winnipeg Beach School (circa 1941)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2012-0036
Postcard view of the second Winnipeg Beach School (no date)
Source: Angela Birt
Winnipeg Beach School commemorative monument (June 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.49497, W96.97019
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Winnipeg Beach, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, July 1915, Archives of Manitoba.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
A History of Education in the Evergreen School Division by John C. Gottfried, MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 1965.
“Evergreen School Div. announces extension of services and projects [Staff List 1968-69],” Lake Centre News, 30 August 1968, page 8.
“Evergreen Division teachers for ’71-’72,” Lake Centre News and Manitouwapa Times, 9 July 1971, page 8.
“Evergreen Division teaching staff,” Lake Centre News and Manitouwapa Times, 27 August 1974, page 4.
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.
“Beach Brownies celebrate thinking day,” Interlake Spectator, 3 March 1982, page 9.
“Beach awards day,” Interlake Spectator, 6 July 1893, page 15.
“Beach School opens doors,” Interlake Spectator, 14 September 1983, page 24.
“Winnipeg Beach Elementary School news,” Interlake Spectator, 13 June 1984, page 7.
“New Principal at Winnipeg Beach Elementary,” Interlake Spectator, 3 September 1986, page 12.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Winnipeg Beach School District No. 1331 - Daily Registers, GR6124, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #23 School District of Winnipeg Beach, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Angela Birt for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 November 2023
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