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Andrew Benedek

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Date:

2006

Reference:

R854-44-1-E, Volume number: 540

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Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3994535

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National Arts Centre Corporation fonds

Dance, Variety, Special Events Department

New Lives: 50 Stories Chronicling the Hungarian-Canadian Experience by V. Tony Hauser

Andrew Benedek
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Date(s):

2006

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 photograph : archival carbon inkjet print ; 45.6 x 54.6 cm on mount 88.6 x 73.5 cm.
Image 45.600 x 54.600 cm
Support 61.000 x 67.500 cm
Secondary support 88.600 x 73.500 cm

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English

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Item consists of a photograph of Andrew Benedek, Founding Chairman and CEO of Zenon Environmental Inc.

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Photographer: Hauser, V. Tony, 1944-

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Caption : Statements by the Sitters for the Hungarian Portrait Project
Photographs by V. Tony Hauser
Organized by the National Arts Centre

Andrew Benedek
Founding Chairman and CEO of Zenon Environmental Inc

In 1956, at the age of thirteen, I wound up in Austria without my parents. Canada opened its doors to me along with an aunt and her son, and we arrived by boat at Quebec City just after my fourteenth birthday.

I began my career in Canada working in "sweatshops" for a year, and then working at night and weekends while I finished high school. Once I got into McGill University, in Engineering, I was on "easy street"; with scholarships, summer employment and poker, I could even afford to date girls.

All this looks like an extremely hard life. Yet, surprisingly, it seemed easy at the time. Maybe this was because I loved Canada and no longer needed to fear the government or the prejudices of other people. And mostly there was the feeling that the future was up to me.

Already as a young boy in Hungary, I felt that improving the world was the reason for my being. In 1963, I realized that water pollution is a major problem needing improvement and I have made it into my "cause" ever since. In 1980, I founded Zenon, which became a vehicle for solving the global water crisis.

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Signed : in black ink, recto l.r.: [copyright symbol] 2006 V. Tony Hauser, Inscription : in pencil, recto l.l.: ANDREW BENEDEK / Archival Carbon Inkjet Print / [copyright symbol] 2006 V. TONY HAUSER- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Portraits

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Volume [R854] 540

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Credit : V. Tony Hauser, Transfer from the National Arts Centre, Library and Archives Canada, Arch ref. no. R854-28
Copyright : V. Tony Hauser

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