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“I want to find these guys and let them know that I found their note. I really hope that they’re both still alive.” yyc READ MORE:

This comes after a surprising discovery turned up some unexpected pieces of the past.

John Wilson, a welder, is working on a project to restore a pedestrian bridge that spans McKnight Boulevard between Centre Street and Edmonton Trail.While working on a piece of the bridge recently, something caught Wilson’s eye.Story continues below advertisement“And inside was a note: ‘November 16th, 1972’,” Wilson said. “‘Bill Davis, fitter’, so he was the guy that would have tapped all the steel together.”The note also included the name of Colin McLeod, a welder.

Before Wilson welded the top back on the old metal piece, he put in a photocopy of the original note and added his own name.Wilson’s left the section displaying the words “look in” untouched. “Hopefully, someday somebody will notice this and they’ll look in,” Wilson said. “And that’s all we can hope for as a welder.”

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