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Calgary actor Bruce Horak brings CNIB co-founder to life in new Heritage Minute

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Calgary -born Bruce Horak is the first legally blind actor to star in a Star Trek series.

Horak lost most of his eyesight as an infant due to a rare cancer.

He was chosen to play the founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in a Heritage Minute .

Edwin Baker co-founded the organization in 1918 , three years after losing his sight during the First World War .

Early next year , he will be performing at the renowned Shaw Festival in Niagara -on-the-Lake.

Horak ’s attention to detail in portraying Edwin Baker fits in with the general philosophy of Historica Canda , which has produced more than 100 Heritage Minutes with an insistence on historical accuracy and high production values.

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