• Awarded on: July 11, 2012

Deirdre Roberts
(Victoria, British Columbia)
Deirdre Roberts is known for her generous history of supporting philanthropy in the wider Victoria community. She volunteered on the Board of the Victoria Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation and with the Aga Khan Foundation, Canada's World Partnership Walk, the Friends of UVic Libraries and the Victoria Foundation. She is also well known for her work as an artist, notably as the Pacific Opera's 2010 Artist in Residence, where she produced 18 behind-the-scenes paintings that were exhibited and sold to raise significant funding for the opera.