Buildings
Winnipeg Technical College
| Formerly: | Pembina Crest School |
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| Address: | 1551 Pembina Highway |
| Constructed: | 1952 |
| Architects: | Unknown |
More Information
Pembina Crest Junior High opened in 1952 and closed sometime around 1983; it reopened in 1983 as South Winnipeg Technical College.
SWTC was a joint project among the Assiniboine, Fort Garry and St. Vital school divisions, along with federal and provincial funding, to provide hands-on education in trades and technology to develop marketable skills for students to supplement traditional academic education; it became Winnipeg Technical College in 1999.
Pembina Crest School was a public middle years school and later became a late-immersion school; it is no longer in the Pembina Trails School Division so they have no records for it.
Design Characteristics
| Suburb: | Fort Garry |
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- The plan of the school grew to become a quadrangle grouped around a treed courtyard, with the most distinctive section on the south elevation; it features a dramatic sweeping rounded curtain wall across the facade of the one-story wing
- The north section is plain, a simple rectangle in light brown brick that runs east-west and fronts on the street; to this was added a perpendicular block reaching across the west side to join the more recent wing with the glass front