A team of genealogy researchers in Calgary is striving to solve the mystery of a box brimming with seemingly random historical items that was left at a local thrift store.
Included in the items received by the WorldServe Thrift Store in May was a photograph of a telegraphers union members conference from the early 1900s, newspaper clippings from the Montreal Daily dating back to the 1940s, and an antique menu from a Toronto Italian restaurant featuring salmon fillet for 15 cents.
The box also contained various newspaper clippings about a Canadian Second World War squadron that played a key role in the collection of photographic intelligence for the D-Day invasion and offered tactical reconnaissance for the British Army in Northwest Europe following the invasion….