Roving Reporter on Canada Day

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 Sidewalk art has become a popular Canada Day tradition in Southampton

Visitors from Newcastle and Cambridge show their patriotism. (L)Julia Black, Ava Black, Claudia Wilson & Evin Wilson

Several artists expressed their creativeness

 Friends of the Southampton Library volunteers, Jane Kramer and Ann Marie Harding in her patriotic headdress

Despite that Canada Day fell mid-week, Southampton in Saugeen Shores was filled with visitors and the chilly weather didn't deter the annual Canada Day Sidewalk Art extravaganza, hosted by the Southampton Art Gallery.

Young imaginative 'artists' from as far away as Toronto, Kitchener and Cambridge wielded their paint brushes and chalk creating unique squares that will remain for most of the summer.

The Friends of Southampton Library also held their annual Canada Day sidewalk sale and crowds of people took advantage of the opportunity to stock up on summer reading material.

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 Elizabeth Claydon of Cambridge paints her unusual take on Florida and Disneyworld


 Young Ross Cameron from Toronto visits each summer. Last year, he was hampered with a broken leg

 The Southampton Friends of the Library held its annual book sale


 Avid reader, Keith Muir of Cambridge, stocks up on summer reading material

 These two patient, four-legged friends were spotted outside Martin's Home Hardware