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Evelyn Moore isn’t the fastest kid on the racetrack, but she’s by far the tiniest.

At 13-months-old, the paralyzed toddler skilfully wheels her homemade wheelchair around the simulated track at Treehouse, an indoor playground in northeast Edmonton that she often visits with her mom.

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Several school-age children whiz by on souped-up tricycles and she stops to stare and clap.

“She really gets around now,” says Kim Moore, who first put her daughter in the makeshift chair — basically a purple foam Bumbo seat on wheels — at seven months.

Just like other children learn how to crawl, Evelyn slowly figured out how to wheel.

“She went backwards first and then she went forwards, and then she figured out how to turn,” Moore says. “And now we have a speed bump in the middle of our living room because she just goes that fast.”

Evelyn — also called Eva by her family — was diagnosed with cancer following her four-month checkup. A nurse noticed too much movement with the child’s hips, then a doctor recognized a lump protruding from her spine.