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Tony Eng
| Tony Eng | |
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| Born | Anthony Wayne Eng May of 1946 Sidney, BC, Canada |
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| Died | May 4, 2008 (age 61) Victoria, BC, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Tony Eng (b.1946-d.2008), a self-taught conjurer, toured across the United States and Canada for over forty years.
Biography
His father, an emigrant from China, would start a family restaurant in Sidney, British Columbia. After getting a set of cups and balls on his eighteenth birthday, we would do tricks at his family's Beacon Cafe. He was a stage performer, a close-up magician and the proprietor of a magic emporium in downtown Victoria in Canada. Later, his work as a bartender allowed him to perfect his close-up magic.
In 1980, he started performing at the Japanese Village Restaurant on Broughton Street in Victoria during Sunday dinner service, a gig that lasted 20 years.
He purchased of a novelties store and renamed it "Tony's Trick and Joke Shop". He sold the shop in 2005, but continued to perform.[1]
Eng served as president of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians in 2006 when the conferences was held in Victoria.
His daughter Julie Eng, a Toronto magician, carries on the magic tradition.
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