Three ballot boxes that were found in a downtown community centre this week remained unopened and their contents remain unknown.

A staff member at Alexandra Park Community Centre was cleaning a crawl space when she came across the locked boxes.

The worker phoned police, who collected the boxes and took them to 14 Division where they may be opened on Wednesday.

The ballot boxes were found in a crawl space in the community centre. (Barry Smith/CBC) The boxes are labelled "Augusta" and "Vanauley." There is an Augusta Avenue and Vanauley Street in the nearby Kensington Market area.

Police believe the boxes may be pre-amalgamation ballot boxes from Etobicoke. There is also speculation they may not even contain ballots. When municipalities were amalgamated in 1998 — after which Etobicoke participated in Toronto elections — the boxes may have been recycled.

The boxes will be transferred to the police's Forensic Identification Services to be examined.



If the ballot boxes contain information related to a federal election, RCMP will be called to investigate.