Family reunites with 80-year-old letters hidden in Winnipeg home [Video]

The family of a soldier who fought during the Second World War has been reunited with letters written to him 80 years ago.

More than 20 letters were penned to John Buechler in the mid-1940s. At the time, Buechler was stationed at HMCS Cornwallis in Nova Scotia and was serving in the Royal Canadian Navy.

The letters were discovered in the walls of a Winnipeg home last summer when the homeowner, George Arcioni, was renovating his kitchen.

The find prompted his daughter Joelle to piece the past together with the present. She reached out to CTV News earlier this month in hopes of connecting with members of Buechler’s family.

“One lady in particular, named Allison, who is a genealogy enthusiast, she actually did a lot of digging into the family and found some names for me,” said Joelle. “So then I was able to look up the names and I …