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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE
Walking down the sidewalk during a cold Remembrance Day, Maya March never realized she had just lost her ID, not to mention $200.

Maya March lost her wallet on Remembrance Day with $200 inside. An anonymous person returned it to the RCMP with the money still inside. - Svjetlana Mlinarevic/NNSL photo

"I was on my way to my friend's house and my purse was on over my parka and between the mitts, the hat, the scarves and everything, I'm still getting used to all the many layers of winter wear, and I reached into my purse to get something out and I guess my wallet fell out," said March, who moved to Yellowknife in June from London, Ont. She believes she lost the wallet by the toboggan hill near 46 Street.

March said she didn't realize the wallet was gone until the next day.

"Everyone kept saying, 'Call the RCMP, you never know', and I thought, 'No way is someone going to turn it in with all that cash in it,'" said March. "I called the RCMP Tuesday morning and the officer said, 'I'm looking at it right now,' and I went down and it still had the money in it and everything. Amazing! What a good citizen."

March had $200 in her wallet after selling wild rose hip jam at a craft sale. When she came to the detachment all her cards and ID were also still in the wallet.

"How do you even say thank you and say what a difference that person made in my life? How much grief they saved me plus all that money and the effort. I can't even imagine how difficult it would have been to try and get my cards replaced while I was in the NWT," said March, adding she still doesn't know who returned her wallet.

The RCMP was not able to provide data on how many wallets are returned to the detachment every year but, according to March, the commissionaire at the front desk told her not a lot of people turn in lost wallets.

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