Cards of love in time for Father’s Day

Sailor First Class Elizabeth Fox. Photo by Corporal Lynette Ai Dang, HMCS Calgary, Imagery Technician

Capt Jeff Klassen
HMCS Calgary
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Sailor First Class (S1) Elizabeth Fox has kept every greeting card she’s ever gotten for at least 10 years. Cards are kind of her thing.

As a Royal Canadian Navy sailor deployed with HMCS Calgary, she’s using her love of greeting cards to help the ship’s company stay connected with family back home this Father’s Day.

She actually starting doing this last month for Mother’s Day.

“I knew that my mom would love to have a Mother’s Day card sent from the middle of the ocean and I thought that other people’s moms would also like something tangible from their loved ones. Everyone likes mail,” she says.

So she put a call out on the ship.  It wasn’t long before she was making and mailing out personalized Mother’s Day cards for the ship’s company – around 100 cards in total. In the process, she raised over $500 in donations for the ship’s charity, The Firefighter Burn Treatment Society out of Calgary, Alberta.

After her success with Mother’s Day cards, both in raising funds and spreading joy on the ship and back home, she continued making cards for Father’s Day.

“I know how hard it is to stay engaged with your family because I’ve lived away from my family for so long. It’s not always easy. Not everyone’s good at thinking about all this stuff, but I am. Cards and thoughtful gestures like that are my thing. It was something simple I could offer others,” she said. “Besides, don’t all our supportive parents deserve nice things?”

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