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19 unusual facts about University of Victoria


Alan G. Thomas

A collection of Thomas's letters to James A. Brigham is held at the University of Victoria.

Alison Sydor

She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria.

Canadian Jewish Review

The project was co-sponsored by the Simon Fraser University Library, the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario, the University of British Columbia Library, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria Library and the Vancouver Public Library.

Daniel Imhof

Imhof grew up in Smithers, British Columbia and started a study to become a sport teacher at the University of Victoria.

Gaslamp Games

Daniel Jacobsen, Gaslamp's CEO, co-founded the company while working on his undergraduate in physics at the University of Victoria, and their first release, Dungeons of Dredmor, was his first commercial video game project.

Hal Lawrence

Lawrence taught at the University of Ottawa and the University of Victoria after retiring from the Navy.

Helena Znaniecki Lopata

She also took her teaching on the road as a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, University of Guelph, University of Victoria and Boston College.

Hugh R. Stephen

He served on the boards of numerous business and community organizations, including the University of Victoria (where a building was named after him) as past chairman, BC Tel, Home Oil, Canada Trust and Brentwood College.

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison or IBM, is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario and an adjunct Associate Professor at both Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria.

James Chater

From 1982 to 1986 James Chater taught history of music at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth), Washington University in St. Louis (USA), the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

Landon Pearson

She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.) from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights.

Leopold Willem Ras

Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria University of Victoria, British Columbia

Mikaela Turik

Post high school, Turik has committed to attending and playing basketball for the University of Victoria, (UVic), in Victoria, British Columbia, on an athletic scholarship.

Monica Pinette

Pinette graduated from the University of Victoria with the bachelor of arts degree in English, and earned a Diploma in Journalism and Photojournalism from the Western Academy of Photography.

Nathan Hirayama

Hirayama currently plays for the University of Victoria in the British Columbia Premiership and for the BC Bears in the Canadian Rugby Championship.

Simon Keith

Keith played at the University of Victoria for the Vikings soccer team where in 1984 he was diagnosed with myocarditis, a deterioration of the heart muscle.

Siri Gunasinghe

Later Siri Gunasinghe became a university lecturer and taught at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada where he was a Professor in the Department of History in Art.

Text Analysis Portal for Research

The Text Analysis Portal for Research' (commonly referred as TAPoR) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montréal (law) and University of New Brunswick.

The 33 Strategies of War

The 33 Strategies of War was part of the reading list for youths attending the Indigenous Leadership Forum organised by the University of Victoria, which aimed to redesign radical Indigenous politics and the Indigenist movement.


Adam Kleeberger

Previously, Kleeberger had played for Canadian clubs University of Victoria and Bayside as well as Rotherham Titans of the RFU Championship.

Alan Gowans

A former president of the Society of Architectural Historians, he served as chairman of the art history department at the University of Delaware and as founding chairman of the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia.

Alan Lowe

He handily won the 2002 election (61.65% of the popular vote) against a number of opponents, including his closest contender, Ben Isitt, then a 24-year-old master's student at the University of Victoria.

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (formerly the Bamfield Marine Station) is a marine research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, Barkley Sound, British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

Briony Penn

The project continues under the aegis of the geography department in the University of Victoria, with active research based on Denny Island and supported by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, as a research project.

Doug Beardsley

He has lectured and taught at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France; the University of Bordeaux; the Victoria Indian Cultural Centre, and the University of Victoria (where he taught from 1981 until retirement in 2006).

Eric Hehner

In 1979, Hehner invented a method of representing rational numbers with current University of Victoria professor Nigel Horspool called quote notation, which allows for easier arithmetic and produces no roundoff error in arithmetic calculations implementing a generalization of radix notation.

Island Medical Program – University of Victoria

The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), the University of Victoria (UVic) and the provincial government, launched its innovative, distributed medical education program in September 2004.

Lai Yee Hing

Lai Yee Hing graduated with a B.Sc from the former Nanyang University (now National University of Singapore) in 1976 and received his PhD from the University of Victoria in 1980.

Lui Che Woo

Lui was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa by the University of Victoria in 2001; the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002; an Honorary University Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong in 2002; the degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws by Concordia University in 2004, and the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Michael Miu

Miu Chun just graduated from a Canadian top ranking high school St. Michaels University School, and this year (2013) he is currently doing his sophomore days in University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Sarah Bonikowsky

She was born in Orangeville, Ontario and graduated from the University of Victoria with a Bachelors of Art and majored in philosophy with a minor in Greek and Roman studies.

Southern Medical Program

The University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), the University of Victoria (UVic) and the provincial government, launched its innovative, distributed medical education program in September 2004.

UBC Faculty of Medicine

Two new undergraduate medical campuses were established at the University of Victoria in Victoria and the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George that opened in 2004.