One could say that Le Soleil's founder Kym Hill started her jewellery career at age ten, when she took up embellishing the margins of her school workbooks with miniature decorations. The simple doodling became increasingly complex and eventually received more attention than the study work that they bordered.

When chance brought an opportunity to visit a home where a silversmith had set up shop, Kym's interest in jewellery-making awoke. She became determined to pursue the vocation when in her mid-teens she began a jewellery apprenticeship. In 1976 she incorporated her company, and soon afterward she opened her shop Le Soleil Jewellers in downtown Victoria.

Kym's perceptive nature and exceptional talent for design quickly evolved into an ability to create beautiful work intrinsically connected with her customers' desires and instructions. Thirty years of accumulating skills and knowledge in jewellery manufacture have further broadened this ability and have made her work renowned across Canada.

Clients from the United States are also becoming a major part of her loyal and steadily expanding customer base. That loyalty is a signature of the satisfaction and delight Le Soleil customers receive from both process and product.