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Family films mistakenly sold at Kelowna garage sale find way back home 10 years later

The films belonged to a family who had once lived on Vancouver Island
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Wendy Robinson and Chris Wallinger look on as the tapes are returned to Marion Baker. (Greg Sakaki/News Staff)

The world feels a little bit smaller for one Vancouver Island resident after 13 family films were returned to their rightful owner a decade after they were accidentally sold during a yard sale in Kelowna.

Chris Wallinger was at his parents91裸聊视频 house for Mother91裸聊视频檚 Day and learned of a box of old Super 8 reels. The recordings, with the name Thompson and a Victoria address written on them, were included in a projector box that Wallinger91裸聊视频檚 grandmother bought 91裸聊视频10 or 11 years ago91裸聊视频 at a garage sale in Kelowna. And, while the Wallinger family had always wanted to return the films, they never had the chance.

91裸聊视频淏ecause of quarantine life right now and having some extra time, [my mom] started going through boxes and that jogged her memory,91裸聊视频 Chris Wallinger says.

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Wallinger snapped a couple of photos and posted his story on Reddit, where a someone quickly suggest he post it in a Facebook group called Old Victoria.

These Super8 Tapes have been in the hands of the Wallinger family for the past decade after they were purchased with a projector at a yard sale in Kelowna. (Courtesy of Chris Wallinger)

91裸聊视频淚 put it on Facebook at 1:30 p.m. on Monday and it just kind of blew up from there,91裸聊视频 he says. 91裸聊视频淏y 7 p.m. I was talking to two of the [daughters] of the parents who owned these tapes originally.91裸聊视频

Taryn Jones, an archivist involved in genealogy research for almost 20 years, saw the post and thought, 91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檒l just take a look and see if I can find anything.91裸聊视频

Within half an hour, Jones found the death registration of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. Through Ancestry.com, Jones tracked down a relative who put Wallinger in contact with the family members on the Island.

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91裸聊视频淚 just think about if someone had film from my family and they were trying to track me down, how I would feel if they contacted me,91裸聊视频 Jones says. 91裸聊视频淪o it was really exciting to confirm it was the right people and they were interested and that the films could go back.91裸聊视频

Marion Baker was one of those family members. Her parent91裸聊视频檚 names were on the tapes and she says she was amazed to get the call from Wallinger.

91裸聊视频淚 just couldn91裸聊视频檛 believe that somebody would go to that much trouble to get them back to us and I91裸聊视频檓 so thankful,91裸聊视频 says Baker.

On Wednesday evening, outside of Wallinger91裸聊视频檚 parents91裸聊视频 home in north Nanaimo, both families met to hand back the films.

Baker91裸聊视频檚 parents were living in Enderby when her mother died in 1990. In the years following, her father moved back to Victoria but sold several items at a garage sale before his move. The recordings, which have videos of family vacations, Christmases and weddings from 1967 to 1981, are even more special to Baker as a lot of her family photos were lost to a fire at her sister91裸聊视频檚 house.

91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檓 excited because I know one of my sister91裸聊视频檚 wedding is on there and I missed it because we weren91裸聊视频檛 in the country at the time and one of my sister91裸聊视频檚 graduation and all these family trips that we heard about but had never seen any of the pictures,91裸聊视频 says Baker.

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What makes this story even more unbelievable, is the cousin who Jones found on Ancestry.com, lives in Winnipeg and was doing his own research.

91裸聊视频淸Our] cousin 91裸聊视频 we just discovered, or he discovered us 91裸聊视频 about 10 years ago,91裸聊视频 says Baker. 91裸聊视频淗e had all this [family information] on Ancestry or we would have never have been found because none of us has the Thompson name anymore, we91裸聊视频檙e all girls.91裸聊视频

Baker says her son is working on tracking down a Super 8 projector so the family can view the films before meeting with her other sister who lives on the Island as well. She says she can91裸聊视频檛 wait to share the films were her three other sisters, who live in Vernon.

91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檙e sort of cursing this virus that91裸聊视频檚 going around right now or I91裸聊视频檇 probably be on my way to Vernon,91裸聊视频 she says. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 a very small world when it comes down to it.91裸聊视频



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