The Toronto Pearson International Airport lost-and-found is a hotbed of interesting items left behind by careless passengers. Jackets, cell phones, toy cars, ukuleles and even sombreros are among the common finds in the massive storage facility.

“Basically they can find anything in the lost-and-found,” Greater Toronto Airport Authority spokeswoman Shabeen Hanifa told CTVNews.ca. “As long as you call through our lost-and-found line and you describe them … they’ll match you back up.”

But when a man stopped to pick up a gold, engraved wedding ring in the airport on March 4, it caused quite a stir.

“I was in the middle of doing a site survey when the gentleman found the ring and I saw that he had picked something up and we started to discuss,” GTAA senior project manager Julia Fillmore told CTVNews.ca.

“He took pictures and decided a good way [to find the owner] was to put it out there on Facebook and from what I understand it’s got a lot of traction which is wonderful.”

Mathieu Doiron posted a photo of the ring on Facebook on March 4, hoping to find the original owner and, “help this guy out of the dog house!”

The ring is engraved with “Lucie et Denis, 11 aout '90’,” inside the band – signalling an August 11, 1990 wedding date for the mystery couple.

The post has since been shared more than 5,000 times on Facebook.

Hanifa said Thursday morning that there hadn’t been any update on finding the rightful owner of the ring, but calls were still coming in.

“I haven’t heard anything yet no, but I see a lot of people trying to help out,” she said, adding that she’s hopeful the ring will be returned.

“We get a few calls every once in a while, we had a couple yesterday and we just keep pointing them to lost-and-found.”

Fillmore says everyone at the airport is on the lookout for lost items, especially if they are as sentimentally valuable as a wedding ring.

“We do our best to keep an eye open to what’s going on around us so that we’re able to, no matter in what position you are, here at the GTAA we’re all trying to help,” she said. “He was a good citizen – I would have done the same.”

But Hanifa isn’t surprised by the great lengths Doiron went to, in order to return the ring.

“I think it just speaks to our area, Canadians, it’s very Canadian of us,” she said.