File contains newspaper clippings of articles about the Cortes Island school, including features about the Read Island school and Ernie Guthrie's retirement as school bus driver.
File contains newspaper clippings of articles about the Cortes Island school, including features about the Read Island school and Ernie Guthrie's retirement as school bus driver.
Historical info from the early 1900s. Info on the Linnaea Farm Society, Linnaea Farm Fest, Linnaea Harvest Festival, Linnaea Farm agricultural programs, Linnaea school history, programs, activities and plays,book launches, public disk golf course, and the Community Land Trust (CLT), 1973-2014. Linnaea Farm purchase receipt from Mansons Landing, 1993. Cortes Island phone book, 1990. Linnaea School Productions play itineraries, 2006-2008. Additional keywords: Donna Bracewell; Ken Hansen; Streamkeepers; raw milk
Historical info from the early 1900s. Info on the Linnaea Farm Society, Linnaea Farm Fest, Linnaea Harvest Festival, Linnaea Farm agricultural programs, Linnaea school history, programs, activities and plays,book launches, public disk golf course, and the Community Land Trust (CLT), 1973-2014. Linnaea Farm purchase receipt from Mansons Landing, 1993. Cortes Island phone book, 1990. Linnaea School Productions play itineraries, 2006-2008. Additional keywords: Donna Bracewell; Ken Hansen; Streamkeepers; raw milk
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.
