Two cousins printed a note on Thanksgiving Day 1966, placed it in a small glass bottle and buried it in the sand at Rathtrevor Beach.
Nearly 56 years later, a family of tourists was amazed to find it deep under the high-tide line.
Dick Brown, who was 16 at the time, said he has fond memories of spending holidays at the Beach Acres resort in Parksville with family.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither cousin remembers printing the note more than a half-century ago, but they recognized their printing when a family friend forwarded Brown a PQB B次元官网网址 article about the time capsule discovery, which included a photo of the note.
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Both signed the note at the bottom.
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He said the family holidayed at the resort many times during his childhood, including Thanksgiving weekend 1966.
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The bottle was dug out of four or five feet of sand by Jeff Fowles, whose daughter, Leah, curiously picked it out of a sand pile. The discovery was made June 12 while the family was staying at the Ocean Trails resort, also on Rathtrevor Beach.
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The cousins live fairly close to one another and see each other at family get-togethers from time to time.
Brown, 72, was a counsellor in the Greater Victoria School District before retirement.
He and his wife, Karen, stayed at Beach Acres about a month ago.
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