Vanessa Austin says she was confused when someone showed up at her office in Guelph, Ont. with a wallet for her.
The Fergus woman was amazed when she found out the wallet was her mother’s and it was lost 40 long years ago.
“We went in and picked [up the wallet] and I couldn’t believe it. It’s like a time capsule. It’s so well preserved, it looks like, obviously no one touched it in 40 years,” Austin said on CBC K-W’s The Morning Edition.
The man who found the wallet, Andrew Medley of Detroit, said he was at Toronto’s Eaton Centre doing some work at
