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Not All Halifax people did their Victory celebrating in the glass-littered streets
Not All Halifax people did their Victory celebrating in the glass-littered streets

Not All Halifax people did their Victory celebrating in the glass-littered streets

Date6/2/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: Not All Halifax people did their Victory celebrating in the glass-littered streets. The churches; though not packed to the doors; still had visitors. V-E Day for this worshipper was a matter for sadness and tears.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001501F
Decked with yards of ticker tape, these girls were among the thousands who milled about the streets celebrating victory day. But there were sober mome(...)
Decked with yards of ticker tape, these girls were among the thousands who milled about the streets celebrating victory day. But there were sober mome(...)
5/19/1945
In the Exuberance of V-E Day Halifax crowds did incalculable damage to property
In the Exuberance of V-E Day Halifax crowds did incalculable damage to property
6/2/1945
Amid all the joyous scenes of revelry accompanying London's long-awaited announcement of victory, a Canadian soldier, gets his V-Day kiss from a C.W.A.C. sweet-heart
Amid all the joyous scenes of revelry accompanying London's long-awaited announcement of victory, a Canadian soldier, gets his V-Day kiss from a C.W.A.C. sweet-heart
5/1/1945
There were few stores in Halifax's main downtown shopping district that were not broken into
There were few stores in Halifax's main downtown shopping district that were not broken into
6/2/1945
For three days Toronto streets rang to the sound of military bands as Canada's old soldiers marched
For three days Toronto streets rang to the sound of military bands as Canada's old soldiers marched
8/2/1938
At the new bar for some elderly patients in Sunnybrook Hospital, Alfred Last lifts his glass with nurse Gail Dailley
At the new bar for some elderly patients in Sunnybrook Hospital, Alfred Last lifts his glass with nurse Gail Dailley
2/2/1973
In Vancouver these happy Chinese, many of them in the native costume of their old land, sing joyously in the victory celebration at the coast. For the(...)
In Vancouver these happy Chinese, many of them in the native costume of their old land, sing joyously in the victory celebration at the coast. For the(...)
8/16/1945
Happy celebrants of the victory in Asia who here bang on drums, clash their cymbals and generally make merry are members of the chinese population of (...)
Happy celebrants of the victory in Asia who here bang on drums, clash their cymbals and generally make merry are members of the chinese population of (...)
8/21/1945
A sailor gets a resounding victory kiss
A sailor gets a resounding victory kiss
5/7/1945
War dead recalled: Flags held by veterans and others form a swaying canopy over people attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Scarborough Civic Centre
War dead recalled: Flags held by veterans and others form a swaying canopy over people attending a Remembrance Day ceremony at the Scarborough Civic Centre
11/5/1989
Welcome back: Wib Smith of Thornhill, a dispatch rider with the Saskatoon Light Infantry in World War II, and his wife Jean stroll along an Apeldoorn street during yesterday's reunion festivities
Welcome back: Wib Smith of Thornhill, a dispatch rider with the Saskatoon Light Infantry in World War II, and his wife Jean stroll along an Apeldoorn street during yesterday's reunion festivities
5/3/1985
News vendors were mobbed the moment papers hit the street, headline type shouting the glad tidings
News vendors were mobbed the moment papers hit the street, headline type shouting the glad tidings
5/19/1945