Walking the quaint streets of Halifax on a pleasant spring afternoon, the last thing you’d expect to see would be mass drunkenness, vandalism, looting and public orgiastic sex. But this is exactly the scene which greeted passers-by on May 8, 1945, VE-Day.

Was the gas mask invented by a Canadian? Yes and no. Cluny Macpherson was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland on March 18, 1879. Attending McGill University, Macpherson punctuated his medical studies on an altruistic note by volunteering for the Royal National Mission for Deep Sea Fishermen, later known by the more manageable moniker of the […]