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How a 97-year-old letter found in a London, Ont., home reached its author’s family

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Two women and a man sit on a rooftop patio of a downtown London, Ont., highrise building holding a letter and envelope of a letter from 1929 written by London man Charles Slater after it was returned to his descendants Aaron and Laurie Powers.

A London, Ont., woman shares the journey of returning an old letter she found in her house through the help of social media and a local genealogist. CBC News spoke to her and the author’s descendants to learn how this mystery was solved.