I want to give you props for how well behaved your 2 kids are. No ones jumping around, no ones yelling or crying about the stuff they want to see. Just Really well Behaved kids!! 👌😇

Its nice to see this, i am from the netherlands and my grandfather helped jews to safe houses and he told me alot of storys about the canadian and american soldiers who saved our country , near my house there is a canadian soldier cementery and we light candles there every year to thank our hero's

“Parachuting as a career, I hear it has its ups and downs”. My eyes rolled so hard they nearly got lost at the back of my head. Dad joke game on point

As a military historian, I can tell you that those documents in that kind of condition are as rare as hen's teeth! For me, as a WWII researcher, these things are invaluable to have for reference, unfortunately, they are unlikely to have a great deal of intrinsic value, except for the original artwork. I hope that you'll be able to make a profit, but if not, please consider donating them to your national archive. This is truly a historical treasure that makes historians like me salivate... (sorry about the mental image that might invoke... lol)

I came by these videos by accident, been watching hours and hours of them, think I'm hooked lol , love seeing the lives of people that probably have now passed on. very interesting.

I love that you opened that trunk together as a family. That is such an awesome adventure ,especially for your children to learn about history in a tangible way. Times like this will be special memories for your children when they become adults.

I dig what you are doing man, you also gotta be one of the nicest, well mannered guys out there. All the best energy.

I appreciate the respect you and your family exhibited while you sifted through the contents of this old trunk. Even your children were reserved and seemed to be in awe, as well as curious, about the history that lay before them. Well done.

Please do a follow-up when you have learned more about these items and possibly about the man himself.

There are numerous War Museums and Exhibits throughout Europe that are eager for war memorabilia from Canada. I inherited numerous things from WWII , kept the things that belonged to relatives but wanted to find a forever home for the things related to the war, but not my family. There was a Museum in Norway who offered a substantial sum for what little I had. Not too long after they received the items they provided pictures of how they had preserved the items and put them on display and showed how eager people were to see the new exhibit that I provided items for. It was important to me to find them a home where they could be shared with the world and not end up in the landfill one day after I die.

I appreciate that you showed respect while you went through these items. It was especially nice you showed a good example to respect the people who fought to preserve freedom in the world in their day in front of the children. Thank you sir.

My grandfather said that you would have to be of Higher up Rank to need those rule books A local museum would LOVE to have the contents of your trunk...

We found all sorts of interesting items in my grandfather's trunk.He landed at Normandy fought through Berlin.His unit was one of the first to find the camps.He never spoke of the war,had nightmares till he passed.

Hi Alex, What a find!! I got my Dad's Navy trunk. It had his uniform in it! He was so thin! The thing I found sad in this trunk was the "homemade" Christmas bell, and the tiny ornaments. Sad Christmas this man had away from his family.😔 At this time of year, we ALL need to remember our Service Men and Women, away from their families, helping to keep us free. Thanks, and Blessings on you, and your sweet family.🍁🍊 The Corpse Bride

17:00 that was a STRONG dad joke. Let it not go unnoticed

All of those need to find a home not thrown in the rubbish, I'm sure that museums would love that stuff, good on you for unlocking that history.

Richard Titmuss, who wrote the fewer children pamphlet, was a very well known and significant economist that shaped the UK social system. Depending on how many of those were printed, an academic collector might pay a pretty decent price for it. I know I would if the shipping didn’t cost me half my salary lol

That book on population wasn't about having fewer children... it was about increasing the population. :) A very interesting find.

it is my opinion, as a veteran of many years, that an officer would have tons of reference books and regulations for commanding. I was familiar and required to read regulations, technical manuals and field guides my entire career and they all focused on my field of expertise. But as an officer, leading a multitude of separate specialties he would have used these to perform troop evaluations and even corrective action for training issues.

What a fun thing to do! Spending time with your family while discovering such interesting things together, well, it's priceless. This is a history lesson none of you will ever forget.

My dad visited your store today and he brought back for me the item you pull out at 3:44. I live just a ferry ride away from Vancouver so this is pretty awesome!

As a family event = priceless ......great video

I'd be sleeping in the doghouse if my wife knew I sprung a grand on that lot, mind you, it's a great bit of WWII knowledge and the kids had a great time. Memories with the ones you love are priceless. Great video. I've been hooked since subbing, I still have a few years to watch the rest. Thanks ever so much! The Wallace family

My thoughts on the Art information is that during the War the Nazis confiscated many valuable Art as they looted during the War. This could be part of the reason there are so much art information in the trunk. He could have been part of a group trying to rescue stolen Art.

Oh my gosh, this is so amazing. This inspires me to start collecting old vintage memorabilia

Thank you for sharing...I loved the sketches...The late Stan Lee illustrated US Army manuals.

It's nice to see you being respectful of the items you are finding. All those books and documents look to be in very good shape. I would think military memorabilia collectors and/or museums would be quite interested in this find.

$1000 well spent! Thank you for sharing

The drawings reminded me of the cartoon character, Sad Sack. My dad had a hard back book of Sad Sack, a WW2 Army soldier. Thank you for the tour of your trunk, it was interesting.

Just subscribed today and I love seeing the older items they are made so well. Also nice to see you saving some of our history.

This is the third video of yours that I have happened upon [yup, I subscribed during the 2nd one ]. I learn so much from your explorations, about Canadian life and about life in general. This find, from the 40's is so interesting. My Uncle served in the US Army the same time as mentioned in this episode. And he was an aartist for the Army, too. There is so much to learn and to keep as knowledge. Thanks for sharing!

Yes check with a museum , what amazing find , prayers you receive much more than what you paid Alex.... such a kind man you are .... bless you and family

I love what you do. Thank you so much for being so gentle about the subject. Just amazing. ....if you found any reference to Geehan's, I would be so grateful. Hugs

Love the dad jokes, 🙄😉 great history in that trunk, thx for sharing ♥️

Absolutely amazing! I am so happy you waited to unveil the contents, I wonder if you can find some local historians and let them in on the treasure trove. I think there are a lot of people with interest in history who would be over the moon to get their hands on such rare "unpublished" manuals, especially in the condition they're in!

So good to see Dave alive again. Your kids were so young. Thanks for taking us back. Ray in Boise

That trunk is priceless

Anybody else hearing "That belongs in a museum!" running through their head?

My dad had the same footlocker. He was US Navy. I found so many papers, magazines, orders, medals and letters. Wonderful to see pictures of my dad as a young man. If your life is worth living, then it is worth recording. So happy you found this and are ensuring proper respect is given to this officer.

All of those training manuals and military exclusive documents are priceless! What an amazing find! You share the coolest stuff with us. Thanks!

“What’s this worth? What that worth?!” Just appreciate the history!

A lot of geat things. I like goimg through old stuff! What treasures you have!

This was really exciting, thanks so much for sharing! I have family that fought in the war and many old photos. I have recently been dividing them up between family members since I tended to have possession of so many from my mother's family. Love looking to them.

Wow just amazing to look through a piece of history! You and your family were also very respectful when you went through everything and that's amazing in it self! And honestly my thoughts based on what was in the trunk was that this person was a very knowledgeable person who like to learn and also collect things that were apart of his journey, and based on the art he had a great humor lol.

All that literature is so special it would be worth so much for a group of reenactors. I would love to sit and read through all of that stuff

Hi from Pensacola Florida Great video! Thanks for sharing your find and family time.

Oh my goodness, the history alone! You need to find the right historian buyer. Beautiful buy. Thank you for sharing.

Wow that is a fantastic box of history, loving the drawings, I am glad you got to be the first one to go through it all because you are respectful and of course this was someone who gave alot of their life to fight for his country, The whole box is so cool, so much stuff packed in there, I am sure you will sell alot of that to the right person, The trunk might be good to hold on to and clean up and sell on its own, That thing came through a war so it's pretty tough, Happy selling 😁

Hey Alex, Check the lining of the trunk... you never know!! :)

omg amazing stuff. museum quality books and stuff.

The content of this trunk is just incredible ! What a find !

What a wonderful collection I hope you read it all thoroughly such a shame the family weren’t interested in keeping this LEST WE FORGET! Love from an ANZAC descendant xxx

Oh my goodness. Id love to have opened that! Totally worth ever penny... I thought 2 things watching... One was.. Oh look at all the paper.. They would be great in junk journals (that I make), and then I thought... Man the history!

This made the pack rat in me happy. My husband retired from US service a year ago. We still have most of his training from over the years. Now I have cause to keep them all. Maybe in 50 years someone will want them for a collection of some sort. There may or may not be manuals on nuclear weapons protection.

you show a lot of respect for the items you find and that is wonderful. I believe you understand that these things once meant something special to someone many years ago, maybe something showed love, gave happiness to a child or provided food and shelter for a family in the hands of a farmer or craftsman, whatever the item, someone once worked hard for it, cherished it, and those possessions deserve our respect and consideration as we enjoy them as much as they did.

The history in that trunk is invaluable! A history department would love to have that stuff. Donate what you don’t sell.

So parachuting has its ups and downs does it? Alex. Alex. Alex. Thank you for thinking of us to let us come along on this adventure with you. You provided for us a good heart race of anticipation. Fantastic video!!!

what an awesome little microcosm of one mans experience of ww2. while no individual item i saw is a goldmine the value is definitely in the grouping. collectors really love groupings. you should really keep it as a group. individually each little bit of ephemera becomes just another anonymous little bit, of which, frankly, there are many. this was a war and this information needed to be disseminated to armed forces of millions. however as a group all known to have belonged to one single man. each little bit becomes a bit of a mosaic telling this one mans story. and in some ways, that is priceless.

Wow that was pretty cool! Thank you for sharing this video!

You are so human I love it. You say we should stack these up....then you get interested and soon you say it again...Just like all the rest of us.

A video with Dave. So happy to see him. Sympathies Melissa and you all . So sorry Dave was one of our very early casualties of this pandemic. You are an loving, inspiring family. Please everyone get a pulse oximeter so you can monitor your oxygen levels at home if you get covid 19.

I love your beautiful Canadian accent, and your shiny optimism treasure hunting!

This was amazing to see. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

I am a retired military guy and history buff here in the US. I love our history (US, Canada, UK etc...) good and bad. Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed this video very much. I think you got more than your moneys worth with those sketches. But that's me.

I just love the trunk itself!

This makes me sad to watch-why would so one sell a priceless family heirloom -and without looking inside. Once your family history is gone it is gone for good. Someone else In the family might have cherished those items. I just don't understand this. Why doesn't personal history mean anything to anyone.

What an excellent find. I am sure you will make your money back. I find all this kind of historical stuff, ephemera etc so interesting.

I just kept being reminded of Geraldo Rivera and the Al Capone vault on this one. With that being said, the contribution of history enclosed in this time capsule is priceless!

Great finds!

As a retired military man I found the items in the trunk very interesting. The war time art is similar to some postcards I have that came from my dad, a corporal in the US Army in WWII. I also have a V mail letter. You wrote a letter while overseas, it was then photographed and sent to the recipient in the states. You almost have to have a magnifying glass read the missive as it is only about 3" by 5". Considerably smaller than the original letter.

One mans junk is another mans treasure. The best thing in there was the art work. Coming from a family of artists I really enjoyed seeing them.

Hi there, my name is Judith, Canadian born but have been in the UK since a child and have been happily married to a Brit for many, many years. I have not commented before as I have only just found your UKposts channel.. I have seen many of your videos now and have really enjoyed the content. You are all so real in the broadcasting that I almost feel I know you! I feel compelled to comment now because of the contents of this particular trunk. You have handled the contents with great respect. You see I would not be here except for WW2. My father was a Canadian soldier from 1938 to 1945. He was posted to the UK in 1939 and was stationed in Wales soon after arriving. Not long after that he met my mother, a pretty Welsh Girl just 22 years of age. He used to say how difficult it was to Court her as she was always surrounded by her three brothers, one in the navy, one in the Air Force and one a sapper in the army. Despite their attempts to keep him at bay he finally won through, and won my mother. My father was a small arms instructor but also an engineer. You found detail regarding small fire arms in trunk I believe. My father served in France, Belgium and Germany and was away from my mother for over a year, completely out of touch with each other. Once the beachhead was secured in France in June my father went over on DDay plus three. He spent much of his time in France and Germany either repairing infrastructure e.g. railways, bridges and the like and even sometimes destroying infrastructure depending on which way the allies were going. He had many amusing stories to tell but would not be drawn on the more harrowing aspects of the war he witnessed. I think many military men behave the same way when they returned home. After the war they returned together to Canada, they both travelled for free as she was deemed to be a war bride. . My fathers family are from Sudbury Ontario so that is where they settled first , and where I was born, but eventually lived in Toronto where, as an engineer my father was commissioned to work on the extension of the subway system to a suburb named Scarborough. I am sorry to have taken so much time getting to why this particular find of yours has touched me so much. Please keep up the many good works you have and done and will do going forward try not to get too busy to have lots of fun along the way. Many best wishes to you, Melissa and the rest of your loving family. Regards. Judith

Ok, you got a belly laugh from me with the ["Parachuting as a Career." ] joke. :)

i have some of the ANZAC versions of those books from my Dads time in the Army in the early 50's. . He probably fought alongside ANZACs too.

I would have to read all those documents. I love stuff like that. Great find.

this was great to watch. when my grandparents passed away, we went through the old farm house, same one my dad grew up in, and found many things from my grandpa's time in the war. in fact, he wrote an entire book about it, from becoming part of the national guard back in ND, to his role in the invasion of normandy, all the way until the war was won. my dad is working on getting it publishable.

That Manhattan Bronx map piqued my interest as I love all things NYC :D

What a tremendous treasure trove of World War II Canadian military issued information. I'd make a few calls and would bet there is a place for this material, especially in the condition this material appears to be.

Thank you, that was really interesting and I love the drawings. 👍👍👍👍👍

You have wonderful family. Great kids! The 2 of you have done an awesome job of parenting.

I was born in 1941 and my father was in Germany fighting for us. I wish I would have listened to more of his war stories since I am older, I want to know more. I saw the date of May, 1945 on one of the documents you found. I was born in June so I was just going to turn 4. I remember my Grandmother giving all we cousins pans and spoons and loading we all in Grandpa's car. He took us down to the big circle around the downtown area and we went around an around banging on our pots. Vivid memory. TFS.

To me this is so very interesting. I love collecting this kind of things. My father fought for Germany in WW1 and Yes I mean WW1. He was 60 when I was born, just don't ask. He immigrated to the USA to perform in Vaudeville. I so very much, mostly photos of the time period. So when I see your new little collection I Think it is really cool. do your research on this stuff. Thanks for sharing it.

that was so cool. it's so great you are following your dream. I took your advice and starting to follow my dream too. thanks for the great advice.

Great stationary! Its like new! Oh... the look on your daughter's face when mentioning "Your contribution " to the population !

Military museum might like some of that stuff.

the contents were almost exactly what i was expecting,minus a uniform

Love your store, I could mess with stuff all week long!!!

Neat trunk! It reminds me of what I found in two old wooden end tables at a auction..they both were loaded with ww11 metals and badges , purple hearts lots of really old military stuff, I only paid 20 dollars for both tables some years ago

I was drooling the entire video

That was fun and very interesting!

Thanks for sharing Alex!

You seem like a model parent man for sure, and it would be crazy to be a father that records most of his weekly work , I think its a perfect thing for children to educate themselves on what there parents/parent does through out there work life. Nothing makes it more perfect than being able to watch your parents vlog on youtube to learn about what they do for their career. Amazing!!!

Great items all but the one that I would like is the box of Christmas ornaments.

try to keep the books together as sets. And to checkout the WW2 veterans groups for information. I would also check out whether or not he was discharged as an commissioned officer. He may have kept some things to himself in the trunk because of the nature of the work he did.

Fun and thrilling to go back in time! Interesting!

Thanks for taking us one the journey with you.

I wonder if G. R. WILLIAMS IS Garth Williams. He is a famous illustrator. For the English army. Then Later illustrated children's books. His work is very similar.

To be honest, I love the creepy little doll 😂

Really so fascinating! The history in that trunk...wow. I have the utmost respect for those who have/are serving in the military. From a business point of view, I agree about the sketches, that's where the money is probably. However, I'd have a hard time not hanging them in my own home. I'm sure collectors will love those pamphlets and manuals.

Ever since I found your channel yesterday I have been binge watching your videos!