Martha Carlsen Entrance Award

Martha Brooker Carlsen was born in 1928 and raised in Boston Massachusetts. She grew up during the Depression and WWII years and graduated early from high school at the age of 16. But like many young women at the time, she was unable to continue her education as she could not afford to attend university. She married young and raised three children on her own after she was tragically widowed at the age of 36. In 1967 she remarried and moved her family to Victoria, B.C. and settled into life on Ten Mile Point. It was important to Martha that her children attend university, and she encouraged and supported them throughout their university years. Martha was a savvy investor in the stock market and managed her own investments up until her death at the age of 97 in 2025. Martha’s three children are honouring their mother by endowing this entrance award with funds from her investments, in the hopes that each year a young woman in financial need will get the chance to attend university that Martha never had.