Calgary Genealogists Working to Unravel Mystery of Thrift Store Box of Historical Memorabilia

Calgary Genealogists Working to Unravel Mystery of Thrift Store Box of Historical Memorabilia
This newspaper clipping from the Montreal Daily Star dated Sept. 14, 1940, was one of many found in a box dropped off at a Calgary thrift store in May. Photo provided by Sharon White
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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.