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By Rochelle Baker \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter When multimillionaires Eric Peterson and his wife Christina Munck launched their charity foundation more than two decades ago, the couple pledged to go to their deaths flat broke. On Wednesday, Peterson and Munck made good on that longtime vow, gifting a chunk of pristine island coastline to the BC Parks Foundation and the bulk of their remaining fortune to the Hakai Institute and the Tula Foundation, which the pair created to leverage science and technology to tackle issues for the public good. The couple gifted the 55 acres of land on Calvert Island at the heart of the remote Central Coast to the BC Parks Foundation at the unveiling of their charity’s newest headquarters in the historic Old Victoria Customs House on Wharf… <\/p>\n

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By Rochelle Baker \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter When multimillionaires Eric Peterson and his wife Christina Munck launched their charity foundation more than two decades ago, the couple pledged to go to their deaths flat broke. On Wednesday, Peterson and Munck made good on that longtime vow, gifting a chunk of pristine island coastline to the BC Parks Foundation and the bulk of their remaining fortune to the Hakai Institute and the Tula Foundation, which the pair created to leverage science and technology to tackle issues for the public good. The couple gifted the 55 acres of land on Calvert Island at the heart of the remote Central Coast to the BC Parks Foundation at the unveiling of their charity’s newest headquarters in the historic Old Victoria Customs House on Wharf... <\/p>\n

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