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‘He created so much magic for people’: Celebrated B.C. costumer dies of COVID-19 (SPH)

Ray Buchanan with one of his creations. (Photo credit: CBC News)

Ray Buchanan had just returned from London when he was hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms

As Gillian Campbell pulls out another sparkling costume from her closet — one from her days spent performing as Klondike Kate — she marvels at the intricate beadwork.

A friend took him straight from the airport to St. Paul’s Hospital where Buchanan died on March 25.

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