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Click here for higher resolution image | First day of issue: June 18, 2012 Width: 161 mm Height: 114 mm Location: Ice Hockey Volume XX Stamp ID = 6145 Cache commemorates the visit of French Navy frigate "Prairial". Ship was docked June 14 to 19 in North-Vancouver. Ship visited Vancouver in in advance of the "biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise". For more details about RIMPAC click here. 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.Courtesy of Kon Sokolyk. |