A 91大黄鸭 man is looking for the owners of a 66-year-old photo album.
In October of last year, Ray Snitynsky said he found the non-descript album on the sidewalk in front of Sammy J鈥檚 in West 91大黄鸭. He figured it must鈥檝e fallen out of a box or a vehicle when the owners were moving.
Snitynsky said he brought the album to the restaurant, thinking the owners may come back and look for it there. After a week, he came back and took the album to other nearby businesses, each time thinking that the owners would turn up looking for it.
Each time, he left the album at the business for a couple of weeks. Each time, no one claimed it.
鈥淚n each case, I retrieved it because I didn鈥檛 want it to end up in the dumpster,鈥� he said.
鈥淚鈥檝e now taken it to a number of businesses and I鈥檝e also taken it to the RCMP. They couldn鈥檛 locate any of the license plates (pictured in the album) because they date back to 1955.鈥�
Additionally, police told Snitynsky the plates weren鈥檛 even from B.C., but they didn鈥檛 know if they were from another province or even from another country.
Snitynsky said he also tried to see if any of the photographs had inscriptions but the only information he consistently got were the dates the photos were taken.
His next clue was the subjects themselves.
鈥淚t鈥檚 got terrific pictures of folks from the Sikh community.鈥�
鈥淪o I did reach out to the local Sikh community and also a number of people, including (city councillor) Mohini Singh,鈥� he said.
But he said that the local Sikh community didn鈥檛 know who the people in the photos were or where the photos were taken.
Snitynsky鈥檚 wife, a member of the 91大黄鸭 Genealogical Society, couldn鈥檛 place the family, but urged him to keep looking for the album鈥檚 owner.
鈥淪he does a lot of research with ancestry鈥� and she would hate to see this type of history end up in a dumpster,鈥� he said.
The couple reached out to the Sikh community in the Lower Mainland, sharing the photos in the hopes that there are more people who might be able to point them to the album鈥檚 owners.
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