A Winnipeg will soon reunite hundreds of lost photos with their rightful owner after a stack of precious memories almost blew away forever.

Peter Rauser was walking along Stafford Street with his neighbour’s dog on his way to get a Slurpee from 7-Eleven, when he found a few photos blowing down the street.

“So I picked up a few and I kept walking, and then two girls across the street were like, ‘Hey, we were picking up pictures farther up the street’,” said Rauser.

Rauser said he spent more than half an hour collecting photos that were strewn along Stafford and some surrounding streets. He estimates he found close to 500 pictures, all of which appear to show the same people on vacation.

“From the looks of it, somewhere Middle Eastern, from the desert and the writing and the people that are in the photos, or from like the housing and camels,” he said.

The photos all appear to show the same people.

Judging by the locations, Rauser said the people appear to have gone on vacation somewhere in the Middle East.

Rauser felt compelled to return the photos because he thinks they were taken on film cameras.

“So, I don’t assume that they can just go and get reprints done because, I’m assuming there was film strips with them that I didn’t find,” he said. “That’s an expensive trip to go on and not come back with anything.”

After CTV Winnipeg published the story, a woman contacted the newsroom and said the photos were her son's from a trip to Morocco. The family says they are relieved to soon get the photos back.