A cross-continental friendship is being celebrated along with Christmas in Newfoundland,and it began with a message in a bottle.
Patrick Dennis said he found a message in a bottle on the shore of Tenerife, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa, in 2002 and attempted to contact the Newfoundland girl who authored the note.
The letter, signed by 5-year-old Siobhane Riggs, had been tossed into the water off the Nova Scotia coast and made its way across the ocean.