Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Workers doing renovations at an Ontario high school made a surprising discovery behind a bathroom wall -- a wallet lost by a then-17-year-old student 51 years earlier.
Lorna MacQueen, caretaker at Stoney Creek's Orchard Park Secondary School, said construction workers were tearing down a bathroom at the facility Aug. 26 when they found a wallet concealed behind the wall.
The wallet contained items belonging to Tom Schopf, who was a 17-year-old student at the school in 1974. The contents included student IDs, a driver's license, a social insurance card, photos of family and friends, a Eurail transit pass, price lists from a Canadian distillery and a 35-cent ticket to a hockey game.
"To find something like that and see things from before we were even born, it was pretty cool," MacQueen told The Hamilton Spectator. "We thought, 'We've got to find this guy and give it back to him. After 50 years, he's going to want it.'"
MacQueen and her team were able to contact the now-67-year-old Schopf on Facebook.
