There is truly something special about handwritten letters, when we type out our writings, it becomes about our voice in how we write and just like with auto tune, so many now use writing tools to correct their writings that even that “voice” is becoming less and less.

My Grandmother and I wrote letters and sent little care packages and gifts to each other when i moved north first to yellowknife NWT an then to Iqaluit, Nunavut. While i did stop in when i could, the truth is for those years letters and regular phone calls were how we kept in touch. I kept all the letters, cards, and photos she sent me over that time frame.

This one caught my eye today when i opened the card and saw that i had never taken the money out of the card with the letter that it came in.. Hard to believe that grandpa would have needed to have gone to that bank some time in 1987 and that those three dollar bills are all wrapped up and i can’t help but wonder! how many of those 66 Canadian dollar bills spread out among all the grandchildren are still in our homes, tucked into drawers and books, and photo albums, did any of them get a letter of the little story to go with theirs?

I will pass them on with the letter and the story into my mothers side of the family and down into the generations that were born and have only seen and held a Loonie aka one Canadian dollar coin.

Do you have hand written letters from your grandmother? Do you have paper one dollar or or two dollar Canadian dollar bills tucked away? If you are one of my cousin’s reading this, do you have your gifted one dollar bill or bills?

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