A photograph from a telegraphers union meeting. An Italian restaurant menu from Toronto. A newspaper clipping covering a graduating class of Royal Canadian Air Force engineers.

Those are among the articles, including personal letters, postcards, Christmas cards and assorted memorabilia, found in a box given to a Calgary genealogical society in May by a local thrift store.

Since then, researchers with the Alberta Family Histories Society have been trying to figure out the significance of the items contained within, what ties them together, and whether anybody might want them back.

The researchers believe they’ve figured out who the box belonged to — a woman named Marion Gordon Atkinson, who passed away in Calgary in 2020 — but that’s only one part of the mystery.

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