ButterfieldFlickr.com co-founder Stewart Butterfield, BA ’96 (philosophy), will be among four members of the university community honoured at this year’s University of Victoria Legacy Awards on Nov. 24 at the Victoria Conference Centre.
Butterfield will receive the Legacy Award for Alumni for his role in co-founding Flickr.com, the online photo-sharing community. Formed in Vancouver in 2004 and later purchased by Yahoo!, Flickr became one of the leaders of what is known as the Web 2.0 revolution (denoting web sites that enable user-generated content).
Faculty of Law Professor Emeritus John McLaren, a leading law historian, will be recognized with the first Legacy Award for Research. McLaren’s writing on law and moral regulation, racism and law, ethnicity and religion, and judicial independence and the rule of law in the British Empire have helped to define the fields of Canadian and imperial legal history.
The Legacy Award for Teaching will be presented to Dr. Catherine Gaul, whose students in two separate programs consistently praise her teaching skills. Gaul has taught for 20 years in the Faculty of Education’s School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education. In the Island Medical Program at UVic—created in 2004 as one of three distributed learning sites for the UBC medical school—she implemented the foundations of medicine curriculum.
In the sport category, Margaret Todd, Victoria College ’36, will be honoured for a golf career that included three consecutive BC amateur titles and two Canadian seniors championships. She also represented Canada in five international competitions. Todd, a life member of the Victoria Golf Club, is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and the BC Sports Hall of Fame. She is the first recipient of the Legacy Award for Sport.
The University of Victoria Legacy Awards gala is now in its seventh year. For ticket information, please contact the UVic Ceremonies and Events Office at 250–853–3226 or ceremony@uvic.ca.
The Legacy Awards are presented by event sponsor CIBC, program sponsor Grand & Toy office products, and four award sponsors: Crease Harman & Company, Dairyland, Hot House Pizza and Graphic Office Interiors.
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