Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipeg Collegiate Institute / Maple Leaf School (Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg)

In 1891, the Winnipeg School Board chose a site at William Avenue and Kate Street, where Hugh John Macdonald School stands today (567 Bannatyne Avenue), to build the city’s first high school, at a cost of $30,000. Initial enrolment was 360 students. Among its early alumni were writer, teacher and suffragette Nellie McClung, physician and educator Joseph Lamont, doctor and Wawanesa Insurance executive Charles Vanstone, physician, politician and psychic researcher T. G. Hamilton, and provincial Conservative Party leader and judge Fawcett Taylor.

In September 1915, the collegiate was transferred to the newly built Isaac Brock School (and later to Daniel McIntyre Collegiate, as of 1922) and the building was used as an elementary school called Maple Leaf School. Though the school’s physical systems were considered up-to-date when it was built, they eventually became too expensive to repair and the building was demolished in 1930.

Principals of Winnipeg Collegiate Institute

Period	Principal
1884-1889	Allan Bowerman (1844-1923)
1889-1893	?
1893-1909	Frank Howard Schofield (1859-1929)
1909-1912	Elwood A. Garratt (1859-?)
1912-1914	Robert Thomas Hodgson (1864-1950)
1914-1915	Elwood A. Garratt (1859-?)

Principals of Maple Leaf School

Period	Principal
1915-c1919	?
c1919-1930	Wilfred Sadler (1884-1951)

Winnipeg Collegiate Institute (no date) Source: Archives of Manitoba Site Location (lat/long): N49.90270, W97.15293 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Isaac Brock School (1265 Barratt Avenue, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute (720 Alverstone Street, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hugh John Macdonald School (567 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple Leaf School No. 83 (1881-?)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

“Many men prominent not only in city but throughout Canada passed through the portals of the old collegiate institute”, Manitoba Free Press, 9 December 1922, page 31.

We thank Joyce Wawrykow and Olga Zaporzan for providing additional information used here.

Information for this page was compiled and written by Reid Dickie and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 January 2013

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