Courtenay, B.C.: A Courtenay man made the revelation of a lifetime when he ran into a container holding a message dating the distance again to 1906.

Steve Thurber says he was strolling along Schooner's Cove in Tofino on Monday when he considered the old jug lying in the sand. It was in a zone as of late unearthed as a component of a Parks Canada intrusive animal categories restoration venture.

The jug was fixed and had a note inside.

Thurber would not have liked to open or break the jug, yet was equipped to make out through the glass that the note was dated September 29, 1906 and was marked by Earl Willard, who was cruising from San Francisco to Bellingham on board the Steamer Rainier when he tossed the flask into the sea, 76 hours into the voyage.

It even records Willard's address in Bellingham, which is currently the Railway storehouse.

"Possibly there was stand out [bottle] that the fellow conveyed and I discovered it. It is like one in a billion risks," says Thurber.

In the wake of scrutinizing online records, Thurber says his message in a jug may be the most senior on the planet – with the following most seasoned going again to 1914.

“I conjecture it is a chance thing that you find something that some person conveyed into the water. That is to say, regardless of the possibility that it was a year later or ten years after the fact, yet a hundred years after the fact is just unreal.”