Canada
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Occasion: 1988 Winter Olympics, 1988, Calgary, Canada
Belongs to cancel group 6

The XV Winter Olympics ran from February 13, 1988 until February 28, 1988 and there is an Olympic cancel showing a hockey player. The cancel is 32 mm in diameter. Also note that the date is writen with number 2 for the month of February.

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XV OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES, CALGARY
88 2 28
XV8 JEUX OLYMPIQUES D'HIVER, CALGARY
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XI
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page

Canada (1851-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 29,123,194. An independent state within the British Commonwealth, occupying the northern part of North America.