Photograph of a large group of students and teachers standing in front of the Whaletown school. Writing on the back of the photo notes that May Freeman and her class were there.
Photograph of a large group of students and teachers standing in front of the Whaletown school. Writing on the back of the photo notes that May Freeman and her class were there.
Photograph of the students of the Whaletown school standing beside the school building.
Back, L to R: Stan McCoy, (girl, face hidden), (ID), Chris Weiler, (ID), Howie McCoy, Brigid Weiler
Front, L to R: Sheril Mathews, Pat McCoy, Marilyn Reedel, (ID), (ID), Alice Robertson, Bernie Robertson
Photograph of the students of the Whaletown school standing beside the school building.
Back, L to R: Stan McCoy, (girl, face hidden), (ID), Chris Weiler, (ID), Howie McCoy, Brigid Weiler
Front, L to R: Sheril Mathews, Pat McCoy, Marilyn Reedel, (ID), (ID), Alice Robertson, Bernie Robertson
Photograph of a group of people seated on the ground at Smelt Bay during Sports Day. Hazel Hansen is seated back to the camera with her head turned; across from her, third from the left, is Peggy Newsham.
Photograph of a group of people seated on the ground at Smelt Bay during Sports Day. Hazel Hansen is seated back to the camera with her head turned; across from her, third from the left, is Peggy Newsham.
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.
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.
Photograph of a cougar looming large in front of the Manson's Landing school. Captioned "This was shot at the had of the Manson's Lagoon and brought up to the school for the children to see".
Photograph of a cougar looming large in front of the Manson's Landing school. Captioned "This was shot at the had of the Manson's Lagoon and brought up to the school for the children to see".
