Head over to the Main Street Project in downtown Winnipeg, and you'll find the team from the Gifts of Grace Street Mission.
Two times a week Rob Nykoluk and others hand out blankets, food and clothing to the less fortunate.
"It's a feel good experience all around," Nykoluk said.
Ordinarily, there isn't much of anything left behind in the pockets of the donated clothing other than lint.
However, last Thursday a homeless man found something extraordinary in a coat Nykoluk had just given him.
"A gentleman came back and he said, ‘you know what, I found this in the pocket?’ And I thought it might be important to somebody," Nykoluk recalled. "So he handed it back to me."
It was a Canadian Army Soldiers Service and Pay Book. Pressed inside its pages, was the weathered army discharge papers of gunner George Edward Jewell. The papers showed he had been discharged from the Service in April of 1946.
The book also had a newspaper clipping from 1994, where Jewell can be seen in the background of a picture. The book also contained a couple of old photographs, including one of Jewell as a baby taken in June 1915.
What the book didn't have was any hint of Jewell's fate.
"So what I did was put it up on Facebook," Nykoluk said.
Soon enough, the post was spotted by a woman from George Jewell's personal care home. The veteran had passed away in August, but he had a living relative, his niece Lynda Peterson.
"He was a very quiet, private person," Peterson said. “But he was feisty."
Peterson said George Jewell never married and lived to 101 years of age. After he passed away, Lynda told his care home they could donate his clothing to charity.
"I though the papers I had were just in the drawer," Peterson said. “But I guess he must have put them in his pocket, and maybe forgot them in there."
But now, thanks to a twist of fate, and the honesty of a man on the street, the papers are back where they belong.
