Series consists of six (6) oversized photo albums from Linnaea School with colour photographs depicting school pupils, teachers and events. Many of the people have been identified but there are many photographs still in need of identification.
Series consists of six (6) oversized photo albums from Linnaea School with colour photographs depicting school pupils, teachers and events. Many of the people have been identified but there are many photographs still in need of identification.
Fonds contains six oversize photograph albums, administrative documents, ephemera, newsletters, yearbooks, and articles created by Linnaea School. It is arranged in seven series: Administrative records; Creative projects; Linnaea Learner; Yearbooks; Publicity materials; School photo descriptions; and Linnaea School photograph albums. Electronic records include an overview of Linnaea; Linnaea philosophy and curriculum, and class and attendance lists.
Six (6) large photo albums : 48.25 cm x 64.75 cm
.1 m of textual records
Extent
.75 m
History / Biographical
Linnaea School was a small independent school located on Linnaea Farm, a land trust with 315 acres of forests, fields, organic gardens and lake-front which is governed by The Linnaea Farm Society, a registered non-profit. Linnaea School offered its holistic, community-based approach to education for 23 years, from 1987 until its closing in 2010.
The school was founded by Donna Bracewell in 1987. It expanded from a first-year enrollment of eleven students to take in close to half of the island's school-age children. Linnaea offered a program of creative, nature-based, alternative learning for Kindergarten to Grade 6. Strong academics were enhanced by farm classes, environmental and outdoor education, mentorship programmes, music classes and service projects. A notable project was the annual spring musical play. Bracewell left in June, 2009 to take a teaching position in Vietnam and the school closed a year later.
Custodial History
Records were donated to CIMAS on 22 October 2014 by a representative of Linnaea Education Centre/Linnaea Farm Society. An accrual of electronic records was donated by Donna Bracewell in 2019.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains six oversize photograph albums, administrative documents, ephemera, newsletters, yearbooks, and articles created by Linnaea School. It is arranged in seven series: Administrative records; Creative projects; Linnaea Learner; Yearbooks; Publicity materials; School photo descriptions; and Linnaea School photograph albums. Electronic records include an overview of Linnaea; Linnaea philosophy and curriculum, and class and attendance lists.
