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Margaret Todd Honoured With Victoria Legacy Award
Margaret Todd, a Victoria College graduate in 1936, who went on to win three consecutive British Columbia Open Golf Championships and two Canadian Seniors titles, was among four members of the university community honoured this week at the University of Victoria Legacy Awards in a gala ceremony at the Victoria Conference Centre.
A life member of the Victoria Golf Club, a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, the BC Sports Hall of Fame and one of the inaugural members of the BC Hall of Fame of Golf, Margaret Todd also represented Canada in five international competitions.
Mrs, Todd claimed her BC Amateur victories in 1947-48-49 and National Seniors in 1976-77.
She is the first recipient of the Legacy Awards for Sport.
"The Legacy Awards span the broad spectrum of ways in which the University of Victoria touches the lives of many," said UVic President David Turpin. "It is important to recognize such an impact and to pay formal tribute to the members of our community whose unique talents bring honour to our institution and our region."
The University of Victoria Legacy Awards, now in its seventh year, also honoured three other distinguished members of the university community.
Flickr.com co-founder Stewart Butterfiel, who graduated from UVic in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, received the Legacy Award for Alumni for his role in co-founding Flickr.com, the online photo-sharing community. Flickr, formed in Vancouver in 2004 and later purchased by Yahoo!, became one of the leaders of what is known as the Web 2.0 revolution (denoting websites that enable user-generated content).
Faculty of Law Professor Emeritus John McLaren, a leading law historian, was 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 was 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.
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