Little Flower Academy
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4195 Alexandra Street Vancouver, British Columbia, V6J 4C6 Canada |
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| School type | Independent Catholic Secondary school |
| Motto | "Ad Lucem" (To The Light) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver |
| Founded | 1927 |
| School board | CISVA (Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver Archdiocese) |
| Principal | Mrs. Dianne Little |
| Grades | 8-12 (girls only) |
| Enrollment | 481 (2013~2014) |
| Language | English |
| Area | Shaughnessy |
| Colour(s) | Maroon and White (maroon, grey or white for sports) |
| Mascot | Angel |
| Team name | Angels |
| Website | www |
Little Flower Academy (LFA) is an independent Catholic girls' day school located in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1927, by the visionary Sisters of Saint Ann, Little Flower Academy continues to educating young women within an intercultural Catholic faith community to realize their full potential: spiritually, intellectually, physically, socially and emotionally.
In 1858, five women of the Québec-based order of the Sisters of St. Ann travelled by sea to the Isthmus of Panama and up the west coast to Victoria. They set down in a small log cabin in Beacon Hill Park, and began the process of establishing Victoria's St. Ann's Academy.
The Sisters' first presence in Vancouver came in 1888 (two years after the city was established) with a school on Dunsmuir, next to a cathedral and, according to an article researched by the late Sister Eileen Kelly (the last St. Ann order principal of LFA), "on the edge of a forest clearing."
The Sisters wanted to expand with a boarding school to accommodate young women who lived too remotely to access existing educational facilities. The building (now replaced) known as "The Convent" was built in Shaughnessy in 1910 for this purpose. By 1918, the Vancouver diocese sold 6 acres (24,000 m2) to the municipality of Point Grey, who desired a portion of the site to erect their own public school, Prince of Wales High School – which became today's Shaughnessy Elementary in 1961. The ownership of the remaining property at the time reverted to the Sisters of Saint Ann, who were able to meet the payments and whose chosen school name "Little Flower Academy" began appearing in the published Vancouver Directory books.
Little Flower Academy was so named apparently because the prayers of one of the Sisters had been answered in acquiring the property. The prayers had been made to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, who had the nickname "The Little Flower of Jesus."
In 2010, Lisa Riemer, a temporary contract Music teacher, was embroiled in a contract dispute and instructed to work from home, for a few weeks, until the end of her contract after she requested paid maternal leave to be with her expectant partner.
The school motto is "Ad Lucem" which means "to the light."
The school offers a challenging university preparatory program for girls in grades 8 through 12. Little Flower Academy is ranked, tied with York House School, as the number one Secondary Schools in the province of British Columbia, and has consistently maintained a top three standing in the Fraser Institute provincial rankings. It has a long-established 100% graduation rate, and more than 90% of graduates achieve provincial honours designation. For the classes of 2009 through 2016, 100% of graduates were accepted to post secondary institutions.
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