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Commissioned by the White Horse Plain School Division, the St. Laurent Collegiate was built in 1961 to replace previous high school classroom capacity within the St. Laurent Municipal School District. Located on Lot 20-21 in St. Laurent in the Rural Municipality of St. Laurent, it was designed by Libling Michener and Associates. An expansion was added in 1964.
In 1970, a new elementary school was added directly west-adjacent, based upon designs of Gaboury Lussier Sigurdson Architects. The rectangular structure measured 150 feet by 100 feet and both collegiate and elementary schools connected via a corridor. The St. Laurent Elementary School first received students on 8 September 1970 and, with construction finished as the fall term progressed, it was officially opened on 20 December 1970. Both the Elementary and Collegiates each continued as semi-separate entities (for a time each with their own Vice-Principals) in the 1970s under the shared St. Laurent School banner though were later fully integrated.
Period
Principal
Before 1961
1961-1962
Alice Mary Audette [Sister Marie de St. Magnile]
1962-1967
?
1967-1970
Marie Jacqueline Berthe Lalonde [Sister M. de St. Bonaventure]
Period
Teachers
Before 1961
1961-1962
Alice Mary Audette [Sister Marie de St. Magnile] (grade 11), Marie Jacqueline Berthe Lalonde [Sister M. de St. Bonaventure] (grade 9), Mary Pauline Mercier [Sister Marie N. D. St. B? R?] (grade 10), Madeleine Regnier [Sister M. Helene-Denise] (grade 12)
1962-1963
?
1963-1964
?
1964-1965
?
1965-1966
?
1966-1967
?
1967-1968
?
1968-1969
?
1969-1970
Donald Allison Albright (grade 8), Sister Florence Buors (grade 7), Siter Loretta Marthe Corinne Chartrand (grade 12), Darius Raoul De Laronde (grade 11), Ivan Nathan Goldstein (grade 10), Rae Khan (grade 8), Eldon Kroeker (grade 12), Robin Laurie Lee (grade 10), Mary Pauline Mercier [Sister Marie N. D. St. B? R?] (grade 9 & library), Marlene Ruth Podaima (grade 7), Roger Wilfred Sicotte (grade 11), Valentine Paul Willms (grade 9)
Period
Principal
1970-1974
Lorenzo Leo Paul Tougas (1938-2015)
1974-1987
Paul Emile Carriere
1988-c1990
Lorenzo Leo Paul Tougas (1938-2015)
c1990-2025
?
2025-2026
Bobby Ellis
Period
Vice-Principal
1970-1971
?
1971-1972
Darius Raoul De Laronde
1972-1973
?
1973-1974
Paule Emile Carriere [Elementary]
Constantine Yphantides [Collegiate]1974-1976
Sister Gertrude Marie Audette [Elementary]
Constantine Yphantides [Collegiate]1976-1979
Hugh Sigfus Sigurdson
1979-1981
none
1981-2025
?
2025-2026
Mike Young
Period
Teachers
Before 1970
Elementary: see St. Laurent School; Collegiate: see above
1970-1971
Elementary: Donald Allison Albright (grade 8), Marie Gertrude Alice [Sister M. Margeuritte Gertrude Audette] (special education), Diane Marie Bellec (grades 4-5), Madeleine Irene Bernard (grades 1 & 3), Sister Florence Buors (grade 7), Sister Berthe Bussieres (grade 1), Marie Adeline Cantin [Sister Marie Fideline] (grade 5), Sister Louise Cantin (kindergarten), Helen Louise Collier (grade 8), Frances Di Emma Gillespie (grade 2), Andrea Lillian De Laronde (grade 6), Sister Louise Moore (special education), Olive Anne Natyna (grade 3), Marlene Ruth Podaima (grade 7), Maureen Faye Rothwell (grade 4), Lula Squire (grade 6)
Collegiate: Sister M. Therese Gabrielle Champagne (grade 10), Rae Khan (grade 11), Marie Jacqueline Berthe Lalonde [Sister M. de St. Bonaventure] (grade 11), Darius Raoul De Laronde (grade 12), Mary Pauline Mercier [Sister Marie N. D. St. B? R?] (grade 9), Roger Wilfred Sicotte (grade 10), Valentine Paul Willms (grade 9), Constantine Yphantides (grade 12 & gym)
1971-1972
Elementary: ?
Collegiate: ?
1972-1973
Elementary: ?
Collegiate: ?
1973-1974
Elementary: ?
Collegiate: ?
1974-1975
Elementary: Sister Gertrude Marie Audette (resource), Madeleine Irene Bernard (kindergarten), Sister Berthe Bussieres (grade 1), Shirley Ann Chartrand (grade 2), Andre Gervais (grade 4), Jake Giesbrecht (grade 6), Olive Anne Kolisnyk (grade 3), Satnarine Singh (grade 5)
Collegiate: Sister Aldea Agathe Alarie (grade 10), Kelly Edward Bernhard (grade 12), Doris Chia (grade 10), Robert P. Ayotte (grade 11), Madeleine Paulette Gaudry (grade 7), Frances Di Emma Gillespie (special education), Gary William Goresky (grade 9), Antoine Sylvestre Lussier (grade 8), Margaret Lussier (grade 11), Paul Guy Marchand (grade 7), Robert William Preston (grade 8), Hugh Sigfus Sigurdson (grade 7), Valentine Paul Willms (grade 9), Constantine Yphantides (grade 12)
St. Laurent Collegiate (June 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Local Government Boundaries Commission,
File 27B St. Laurent Collegiate.
St. Laurent Collegiate (June 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Local Government Boundaries Commission,
File 27B St. Laurent Collegiate.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.40950, W97.94164
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Libling Michener and Associates / LM Architectural Group
Manitoba Business: Gaboury Lussier Sigurdson Architects
“Local Happenings [Mr. James Sinclair has secured a large building contract ...],” Stonewall Argus, 13 April 1910, page 8.
Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in the Interlake - Manitoba - Volume 1, St. Laurent Elementary - File 27A, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in the Interlake - Manitoba - Volume 1, St. Laurent Collegiate - File 27B, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
“Notice of tender,” Winnipeg Free Press, 14 February 1970, page 65.
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.
The Land between the Lakes: History of R.M. of St. Laurent & District, by the St. Laurent & District History Book Committee, 2010, pages 26-52. [University of Manitoba Libraries]
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 29 May 2026
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