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The best news
The best news

The best news

Date5/1/1945
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Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: The best news: A mammoth Star headline tells the story Toronto and the world had been waiting nearly six years to read; but now a reader fears that the anniversary is becoming less and less recongnized. How soon we forget such an epochal event; he says.
Medium
Photographs
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Object NumberTSPA_0001578F
Out in Regina Westerners reacted to the joyous news with typical western fervor
Out in Regina Westerners reacted to the joyous news with typical western fervor
Toronto Star (Firm)
6/2/1945
Papers containing the big news sold like hit cakes
Papers containing the big news sold like hit cakes
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/7/1945
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
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/19/1945
A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
Stuparyk, Michael
11/6/1989
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
Teskey, Frank
2/2/1973
Editor: Harvie Thompson, 58, has a ringing in his ears since the war
Editor: Harvie Thompson, 58, has a ringing in his ears since the war
Bull, Ron
8/31/1979
Vets parade in Uglhelen, the Netherlands Vgchelen is just outside Apeldoorn
Vets parade in Uglhelen, the Netherlands Vgchelen is just outside Apeldoorn
Darrell, Dick
5/3/1985
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 (...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
8/21/1945
A sailor gets a resounding victory kiss
A sailor gets a resounding victory kiss
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/7/1945
Demonstrating for higher pensions to meet the increased cost of living, disabled French veterans, most of them amputation cases, raise their canes hig(...)
Demonstrating for higher pensions to meet the increased cost of living, disabled French veterans, most of them amputation cases, raise their canes hig(...)
Toronto Star (Firm)
6/5/1947
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
Canada. Canadian Army. Highlanders of Canada, 48th
8/2/1938
Alf Richards is proud to have been at Dieppe, though it cost him his legs
Alf Richards is proud to have been at Dieppe, though it cost him his legs
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
8/18/1977