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Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
1945 establishments in Quebec (9 P) This page was last edited on 25 September 2019, at 22:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
June 4 – 1945 Ontario general election: George Drew's PCs win a majority; A V-E Day parade on Sparks Street, Ottawa (May 8, 1945) June 11 – Federal election: Mackenzie King's Liberals win a third consecutive majority; June 26 – Canada is a founding member of the United Nations
Jour de l'An: movable holiday: Easter Monday: Lundi de Pâques: May 1: International Workers' Day: Fête du Travail: May 8: Victory Day: Fête de la Victoire 1945: movable holiday: Ascension Day: Ascension: movable holiday: Whit Monday: Lundi de Pentecôte: May 27: Abolition Day: Abolition de l'Esclavage: In remembrance of the abolition of ...
Lundi de Pâques: Monday after Easter Sunday (one day after Easter Sunday) 1 May: Labour Day: Fête du Travail: 8 May: Victory Day: Victoire 1945: End of hostilities in Europe in World War II moveable: Ascension Day: Ascension: Thursday, 39 days after Easter Sunday moveable: Whit Monday: Lundi de Pentecôte
Le défilé de la Victoire, le 14 juillet 1919, by François Flameng. 1871 Prussian parade in Paris, celebrating the Franco-Prussian War. 1919 Paris Victory Parade, celebrating the victory in the First World War. 1940 German Victory Parade in Paris. After the Fall of France, the German army marched down the Avenue Foch in triumph on 14 June ...
The Angel of Victory (French: L'Ange de la Victoire) is a statue crafted by London-born sculptor Coeur de Lion McCarthy (1881–1979), installed in Montreal's Windsor Station, in Quebec, Canada. [1] It was commissioned in 1922 in memory of the 1,116 Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employees who died in World War I. Copies of the statue were also ...
On May 5, the last bomb of the Front de libération du Québec exploded at the Casa d'Italia in Montreal. It was placed by the Reynald Lévesque cell. On May 8, the Petit Québec libre barn located in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Rochelle is burned down by the RCMP.