Local actor Bruce Horak plays Edwin Baker, who co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind after he was blinded as a soldier in World War I.
When Calgary-born actor Bruce Horak was 15, he spent a summer at Calgary’s Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Horak lost most of his eyesight as an infant due to a rare cancer.
A new Heritage Minute about Edwin Baker, the co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), features a Calgarian in its starring role. Local actor Bruce Horak plays Baker in ...
Horak, who is legally blind, told CBC Calgary's The Homestretch about his personal connection to the role. Bruce Horak is the star of a new Heritage Minute about Edwin Baker, the co-founder of the ...