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The Woodsworth School is thought to have been established before the 1908 founding of the Brooklands School District No. 1440, which it joined. It was a two-classroom wood frame structure located at the northeast corner of the intersection between Rosser Road (now King Edward Street) and Geyser Avenue (now Selkirk Avenue). On account of local financial concerns held by some district ratepayers, an unsuccessful attempt was made in 1924 to split this single school away from the Brooklands School District and create the independent Woodsworth School District.
The Woodsworth School continued operation until closing in the summer of 1963, a month after which (in July 1963) the former school building was mistakenly damaged by workers intending to tear down the nearby Wentworth School. It remained vacant and was still standing the following year, at which point the most of the 4.5 acres it stood upon (though not the school structure itself) were offered for sale by the Brooklands School District. While the structure was later removed from the site, the Woodsworth name was carried over to the nearby Woodsworth Park.
Period
Principal
1911-1963
Period
Teachers
Before 1921
1921-1922
Montague Shore (grades 4-8), Bertha A. Smith (grades 1-3)
1922-1923
Fanny Maud Leeming (grades 1-3), Montague Shore (grades 4-8)
1923-1924
Fanny Maud Leeming (grades 1-3), Eva M. Underwood (grades 4-7)
1924-1925
Edith P. Parkes (grades 1-4), John N. Sturk (grades 5-8)
1925-1926
H. M. McTavish (grades 1-4), John N. Sturk (grades 5-8)
1926-1927
John Hiram Armstrong (grades 5-8), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-4)
1927-1928
John Hiram Armstrong (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1928-1929
Frank Bowman (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1929-1930
Frank Bowman (grades 4-7), Marjorie Marsland (grades 1-3)
1930-1931
Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Doris McKendry (grades 1-3)
1931-1932
Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Doris McKendry (grades 1-3)
1932-1933
Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Joyce McKinnell (grades 1-3)
1933-1934
Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-3)
1934-1935
Robert Holloway (grades 4-7), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-3)
1935-1936
Robert Holloway (grades 5-8), Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-4)
1936-1937
Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-6)
1937-1938
Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-5)
1938-1939
Margaret Ritchie Shaw (grades 1-5)
1939-1940
Robert Holloway (grades 5-8), Elizabeth Jean Lothian (grades 1-4)
1940-1941
Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-4), Robert Holloway (grades 5-8)
1941-1942
Janet Isabelle Hall (grades 1-4), Robert Holloway (grades 5-8)
1942-1943
Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), Cecilia Wood Sneddon (grades 1-3)
1943-1944
Mary Ellen Elliott (grades 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8)
1944-1945
Pauline Marie Capot (grades 1-3, September-December), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), S. Lytle (grades 1-3, January-June)
1945-1946
Robert Holloway (grades 4-8), Elizabeth Joan “Betty” Thom (grades 1-3)
1946-1947
Shirley Anne Hoddinott (grade 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-8)
1947-1948
Robert Holloway (grades 4-6), Iris Havergal Sharpe (grades 1-3)
1948-1949
Wilhelmine Flatt (grades 1-3), Robert Holloway (grades 4-6)
1949-1950
Robert Holloway (grades 4-6), Anne R. Lentourch (grades 1-3)
1950-1951
Robert Holloway (grades 3-6, September-December; grades 3-5, January-June), Olga Greening (grades 1-2)
1951-1952
Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Beatrice McLean (grades 1-2)
1952-1953
Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Beatrice McLean (grades 1-2)
1953-1954
Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Kathleen Macgillivray (grades 1-2)
1954-1955
Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Emma Massicotte (grades 1-2)
1955-1956
Robert Holloway (grades 3-5), Emma Massicotte (grades 1-2)
1956-1957
Marcia Ewashko (grades 3-5), Nettie Loewen (grades 1-2)
1957-1958
Florence A. Godfrey (grades 2-4), Carolyn Sennett (grades 1-2)
1958-1959
Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Murray (grades 3-4), Carolyn Sennett (grades 1-2)
1959-1960
Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2), Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Murray (grades 3-4)
1960-1961
Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 3-4), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2)
1961-1962
Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 3-4), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grades 1-2)
1962-1963
Gertrude Evelyn Anderson (grades 2-3), Vivian Johanna Sigurbjorg Jeffery (grade 1)
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.93152, W97.20638
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Organization: Brooklands School District No. 1440
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
“Whoops - Pardon my sledge-hammer,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 1963, page 3.
“Brooklands School District No. 1440 invites offers,” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 April 1964, page 27.
A Short History of Brooklands Elementary Schools including Woodsworth, Cressey, Krawchyk, Butterworth, St. James Assiniboia School Division.
The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993 by the Rosser Municipality Centennial History Book Committee, page 102.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 October 2021
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