Transcona – Springfield Area 1873-1983″
Margaret Underhill
– Inducted in 2013
Category of Education
Miss Margaret Underhill was educated at Central School in Transcona before becoming a teacher herself. She taught in many different rural Manitoba schools, such as Swan River and Starbuck before returning to Transcona in 1927 and continued to educate youth for 36 years.
In 1956 she was appointed teaching Principal of Westview School. In 1957 she was transferred to the new Radisson Elementary school as the first female principal. In 1965, a year after she retired, she was honored as the namesake of the newly built Margaret Underhill Elementary now known as École Margaret Underhill.
A Bronze plaque in the school reads:
“Named in honour of the first lady principal to be appointed in Transcona School District No. 39 and dedicated to her and other long service lady teachers who gave a total of 741 years guiding and teaching the children of Transcona.”