The whereabouts of a journal that belongs to a Cambridge, Ont., church was unknown for the past 50 years, until it was found in a Value Village 100 kilometres away, in London.

The journal was written by Rev. James Dickson, who served as Central Church's first minister from 1880 to 1914.

"He was the minister that built the church," said Ingrid Talpak, a church volunteer and one of the first people to see the journal after it was returned.

"He was born in Scotland, and the journal talks about how he came to Canada through Montreal and his adventures in the early days of pre-Confederate Canada."

But the question around how the journal went missing remains a mystery that volunteers are trying to unravel, Talpak said. Where was it? Who had it all this time? And how did it end up in a Value

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