P.E.I. mom gets Mother's Day card from Fort McMurray after wildfire

A P.E.I. woman has received a welcome surprise in the mail a Mother's Day card from her daughter in Fort McMurray, almost four months late and smelling of smoke.

The card was delivered to Laurie Brinklow in Charlottetown on Monday, wrapped in plastic and including an apology from Canada Post.

"Wow! Canada Post comes through," said Brinklow.

"All that mail that was sitting there could have just burned up or whatever, or [been] forgotten, but they managed to get it all the way across Canada."

Brinklow's daughterMikhala Brinklow-McKnight dropped the Mother's Day card in a mailbox in Fort McMurray on the morning of May 3. Later that day she joined thousands of others fleeing the city under an evacuation order.

Scary text from evacuation

The card brought back some frightening memories.

Brinklow said she hopes never to get another text from her daughter like she did the day Brinklow-McKnight and her boyfriendfled Fort McMurray, with fire burning on both sides of the road as they drove out.

But it was also a reminder of a happy ending.

"My kids made it out of the fire OK and are safe and are thinking of me even now, although it was several months ago that they actually tried to send it," said Brinklow.

"It was just a nice happy little happy Mother's Day present."

It is the first Mother's Day card Brinklow has received in the mail, and she said this makes it extra special.

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