Margaret Jenkins - a teacher, wife and mother, a strong community volunteer, the longest serving Trustee with the Victoria School Board (1897 - 1918), a committed women's rights activist, an enthusiast of all children and much, much more. From a small two room school (now called the Annex) to its present size, Margaret Jenkins School has had a colourful history.

The Annex, built in 1913, was first called the Hollywood School before the official name, Margaret Jenkins, was adopted. The few children in the school would have walked from their farm house or ridden in horse-drawn carriages along dirt roads to reach their classroom. War was the talk of the day. In 1915 a handsome, three-story, red brick building was opened across from the Annex to accommodate the waves of immigrants fleeing the war in Europe. Larger numbers of children now began to arrive for the day, walking or in cars, traveling far and near.

Through the Depression, the Second World War and finally into peaceful times, the school grew. A streetcar which turned about at Foul Bay and Fairfield brought children to class on time. The school, eventually bursting at the seams with the baby boom generation, was enlarged with a wing of classrooms and offices in 1957, a new auditorium in 1965, and a new library in 1973