welcome home errant wanderers one & all
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
<doug@d...> wrote:
>
> Letter arrives a century too late
> Last Updated Wed Jul 23 22:05:38 2003
>
> STANSTEAD, QUE.-- It appears rain or sleet or snow stopped
a few
> members of the U.S. Postal Service after a letter arrived in a
small
> Quebec town 101 years after it was mailed.
>
> Dated December 19, 1901, the letter arrived at the Stanstead
post
> office from a New York post office last week. It came with a
notice
> from U.S. postal authorities saying it was found loose in the
mail and
> likely had been damaged.
>
> The letter arrived in a plastic envelope, says Stanstead
postmaster
> Therese Maclure. With an image of Queen Victoria and a
two-cent cost,
> the stamp's appearance made it stand out.
>
> "We said 'It's old, look at the stamp. It's old, it had to be old,"
> said Maclure.
>
> The letter had been sent it to Mr. Marcellous Way in Stanstead
> Junction, a town that doesn't exist any more. In it, Mrs. John
Ross
> invites Mr. Way to her Sherbroke home for Christmas holidays.
>
> "Dear cousin," says the letter. "I will try once more to find out if
> you are in the land of the living or not. I will write to both places
> so you will be sure to get it."
>
> Town resident Warren Ross says the signature of "Chat" on
the letter
> helped him identify it. The name was his grandmother
Charlotte's
> nickname.
>
> "It's a surprise when you see your grandmother's name and
they've been
> gone so long," said Ross.
>
> Stanstead residents say they're not surprised the letter ended
up in
> the U.S. as one of the streets in the town borders both
countries.
>
>
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