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on July 14, 2009

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Olympian, originally uploaded by exphiles8.

Celebrating Canada's Olympian at the Canada Day Parade in Richmond, B.C.

BC Canada Canada day Olympian parade Richmond

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Hi all, This will be the last post I will be making on this blog. I find that the Blogger platform is just not suitable for photoblogging so I have decided to close down this blog. I will now be posting photos on Instagram. If you would like to follow me, here is my Instagram Account . Thank you for following my blog.

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