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my

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involvement with the art gallery is

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really about 18 years when we return to

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victoria because

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my wife and family and i lived overseas

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and in various parts of canada

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but there was a time when we’d come back

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to canada and to victoria for our

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holidays

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so

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the first time

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i was in the gallery i guess would be

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1973

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when we were visiting

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the city and i took my three little boys

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with us to

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to take a look at the gallery and they

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were thoroughly enthralled because

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they’d seen reproductions of emily cars

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and now they saw the thing

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the real real pictures and

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had and they were extremely well behaved

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i guess it was the influence of emily

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carr looking at them that

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caused this excellent behavior

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but the gallery to me

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having seen galleries all over the world

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and this could include galleries in

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france and milan and london various

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places where we left this gallery

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though it’s small

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provides to me

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the attraction that some of these big

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places do

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what the gallery means is you can see an

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awful lot to me

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and

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i want to see it continue to flourish

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and for that reason i provide a little

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financial support

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this gallery is really the center

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of art culture in the city of victoria

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and so we must continue to ensure that

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it

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lives up to its

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current performance and even comes up

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with more outstanding

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activities

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