Brenda Baisley and Chris Beingessner are hoping to find precious items stolen from a shipping container. The family is relocating to Singapore. (CBC) A Regina family that had packed up everything they own to ship to their new home in Singapore is scrambling after the container was stolen and emptied of all their worldly possessions.

"Literally everything we owned was in the container, save for our clothes," Chris Beingessner said in a note posted to social media Wednesday. "We are relocating to Singapore, and our children are devastated that none of the things we promised would meet us there will be there."

According to Beingessner, the container was stolen on May 25. It was due to be picked up by a trucking firm.

The trailer, was found four days later — without the container.

Beingessner said it is believed that the contents of the container are in the Regina area.

"We are less concerned with the possessions we can replace, and more with the family mementos that are irreplaceable (photos, our growth chart chronicling the heights from birth of our now four- and six-year-old children, our children's art, irreplaceable gifts and mementos from our travels, etc.)," he said.

He added that the theft of the items likely involved someone using a forklift or some other machinery to remove things.

"Someone knows where our stuff is," he said. "We would love to have it returned."