Fonds contains six oversize photograph albums, CDs, administrative documents, ephemera, newsletters, yearbooks, and articles created by Linnaea School. It is arranged in eight series: Administrative records; Creative projects; Linnaea Learner; Yearbooks; Publicity materials; School photo descriptions; Linnaea School photograph albums; and CDs. Electronic records include an overview of Linnaea; Linnaea philosophy and curriculum, and class and attendance lists.
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. A sticky note attached to the CD file box said they were brought to the Museum in 2017 by Miensje Vlaming.
Scope and Content
Fonds contains six oversize photograph albums, CDs, administrative documents, ephemera, newsletters, yearbooks, and articles created by Linnaea School. It is arranged in eight series: Administrative records; Creative projects; Linnaea Learner; Yearbooks; Publicity materials; School photo descriptions; Linnaea School photograph albums; and CDs. Electronic records include an overview of Linnaea; Linnaea philosophy and curriculum, and class and attendance lists.
Photograph of the Whaletown Women's Institute and school children at the Whaletown school on the occasion of the presentation of a library to the school. (ID)
Seated women from right: Milly Hill, Barbara Hunt, ?
In truck: Lynn and Ann Robertson
Men: Mr. Philip Douglas, School Rep, Mr. A. Ferguson, teacher, facing the camera
Seated children: Doreen Huck, Andy Robertson behind her
Standing women: Muriel Whiting, third from right; Mrs. Ferguson behind her
Photograph of the Whaletown Women's Institute and school children at the Whaletown school on the occasion of the presentation of a library to the school. (ID)
Seated women from right: Milly Hill, Barbara Hunt, ?
In truck: Lynn and Ann Robertson
Men: Mr. Philip Douglas, School Rep, Mr. A. Ferguson, teacher, facing the camera
Seated children: Doreen Huck, Andy Robertson behind her
Standing women: Muriel Whiting, third from right; Mrs. Ferguson behind her
Photograph of pupils standing in front of the Whaletown school that was at the gravel pit on the road to Coulter Bay. This photo was cropped from photo #1999.001.813.
Standing, back row, L to R: Louise Boas, Florence Bull, Pam Woolsey, Wilma Haines, Marilyn Mould, ?(ID), Joan Ackerman
Standing, L to R: Bobby Bull, Bobby Anderson, Jim Munro, Dave Ogren, Bud Dewar, Bill Woolsey
Seated, L to R: Nola Ogren, Donny Bull, Johnny Munro, Myrna Dewar, Bobby Ferguson seated on the ground in front
Photograph of pupils standing in front of the Whaletown school that was at the gravel pit on the road to Coulter Bay. This photo was cropped from photo #1999.001.813.
Standing, back row, L to R: Louise Boas, Florence Bull, Pam Woolsey, Wilma Haines, Marilyn Mould, ?(ID), Joan Ackerman
Standing, L to R: Bobby Bull, Bobby Anderson, Jim Munro, Dave Ogren, Bud Dewar, Bill Woolsey
Seated, L to R: Nola Ogren, Donny Bull, Johnny Munro, Myrna Dewar, Bobby Ferguson seated on the ground in front
Photograph of the Squirrel Cove school, showing the entrance and side of the building in its clearing. A group of pupils is standing beside the school. Doreen Thompson has identified the pupils in 1917 as Margaret and Laurie Forrest; Harry, John and Dorothy Huck; Dave and Emmett Barrett and teacher Bob Cummings. (same as #2007.001.568)
Photograph of the Squirrel Cove school, showing the entrance and side of the building in its clearing. A group of pupils is standing beside the school. Doreen Thompson has identified the pupils in 1917 as Margaret and Laurie Forrest; Harry, John and Dorothy Huck; Dave and Emmett Barrett and teacher Bob Cummings. (same as #2007.001.568)
Photograph of a group of people in the Rectory in Whaletown, captioned "Teachers in the first real Vacation School on the BC coast, in the Rectory at Whaletown."
Photograph of a group of people in the Rectory in Whaletown, captioned "Teachers in the first real Vacation School on the BC coast, in the Rectory at Whaletown."
Photograph of the old log school on Read Island, which was about a mile back from the water .A woodshed is to its side; the ground and roofs are covered in snow.
Photograph of the old log school on Read Island, which was about a mile back from the water .A woodshed is to its side; the ground and roofs are covered in snow.
Photograph of a group of girls who were taking part in the Vacation School sponsered by the Columbia Coast Mission standing on the Whaletown wharf, in front of the freight shed. Left to Right: Yvonne and Louise Boas, Beth Hanen, Nola Ogren,Joan Disney, Mary Irwin, Pam Woolsey, Florence Bull, Mary Thompson.
Photograph of a group of girls who were taking part in the Vacation School sponsered by the Columbia Coast Mission standing on the Whaletown wharf, in front of the freight shed. Left to Right: Yvonne and Louise Boas, Beth Hanen, Nola Ogren,Joan Disney, Mary Irwin, Pam Woolsey, Florence Bull, Mary Thompson.