“Success in education came not from repression and torture but from the encouragement and happiness of the child”

Student’s lives were made easier when teacher Daniel McIntyre came to Winnipeg from New Brunswick armed with that philosophy.

McIntyre, born on the East Coast, got his teaching start in New Brunswick before moving to Winnipeg in 1882. Within three years, McIntyre took on the role of Inspector of Protestant Schools. In 1890, he was appointed to a new position that he would hold for the next 43 years: Superintendent of Public Schools.

Winnipeg’s first major high school was a long time coming. In 1882, Winnipeg’s first class consisted of 8 students housed in a small room at Louise School. Conditions were grim and they opted to move into the new Central School. They remained there for nine years until Isaac Brock school was built in 1913. Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute would finally open in 1922.

Designed by local architect John Semmens, the two storey Gothic Revival building features a main entrance of smooth limestone with peaked arch, red brick with stone window treatments, and bay windows.

Daniel McIntyre’s list of outstanding graduates is long and is still going strong today.