A retired Canadian teacher, who couldn’t bear to throw away unclaimed diaries from his classes’ creative writing projects in the 198os, has tracked down many of his former students. With the help of social media, Hugh Brittian, 78, sent the time capsules, replete with preteen secrets, opinions, and ambitions, back to their original owners. One of them was Austin Hutton, 45, who now lives in Fort St. John, British Columbia. Brittain was his sixth-grade teacher at Havelock Elementary School in New Brunswick. Receiving his diary back from Brittain in the mail, according to Hutton, was both exciting and emotional. “I had no idea what I’d written, what mattered to me back then,” Hutton, who wrote his diary back in 1988, told CBC. “It was like getting a window on your childhood.” His diary, which bore a stark warning on the front cover with green ink—”My diary. Top secret. Keep out!”—contained fascinating snapshots of …