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When François and Monique invited me to speak on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) contributions to our understanding of the ‘Cosmic Connection’ revealed by galaxy evolution, I worried that this far reaching topic would make it nearly impossible to exclude anything done at the CFHT over the twenty years elapsed since its inauguration. I was much reassured when they suggested that I could speculate on future contributions, about which nothing needs to be excluded since nothing is of course known. I am thus at liberty to reminisce about the gestation of the CFHT, brush a broad outline of its multifaceted and important scientific contributions, and indulge into visions where it can still take its community of users.
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Racine, R. (1999). The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and the Cosmic Connection. In: Spite, M. (eds) Galaxy Evolution: Connecting the Distant Universe with the Local Fossil Record. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4213-7_2
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