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The best news
The best news

The best news

Date5/1/1945
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FormatPicture
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
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
Papers containing the big news sold like hit cakes
Papers containing the big news sold like hit cakes
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/7/1945
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
Remembrance Day, at Prospect Cemetery, St
Remembrance Day, at Prospect Cemetery, St
Scott, Frederick George, 1861-1944
1924
In wheeled chairs and some on crutches (left) veterans marched again with their units in the reunion parades
In wheeled chairs and some on crutches (left) veterans marched again with their units in the reunion parades
Toronto Star (Firm)
8/2/1938
This is the interior wreckage of a store after the crowd got through
This is the interior wreckage of a store after the crowd got through
Toronto Star (Firm)
5/10/1945
Recalling the albacores, At a reunion of four RCAF squadrons Saturday in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto lawyer Allan Bartlett (left), former navigator (...)
Recalling the albacores, At a reunion of four RCAF squadrons Saturday in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto lawyer Allan Bartlett (left), former navigator (...)
Beaty, Keith
10/22/1972
Comrades in arms
Comrades in arms
Griffin, Doug
8/5/1985
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
Darrell, Dick
5/3/1985
Ready for Poppy Day. Office worker Corinne Therien, 22, stocks up a tag box with poppies made by disabled war veterans in advance of tomorrow's Poppy Day tag drive by Canadian Legion
Ready for Poppy Day. Office worker Corinne Therien, 22, stocks up a tag box with poppies made by disabled war veterans in advance of tomorrow's Poppy Day tag drive by Canadian Legion
Feeny, Edwin
11/5/1970