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Donna Skelly takes you back 70 years, as the world prepares to mark VE Day.

Thousands filled the city’s downtown core to share the excitement and bid farewell to one of the ugliest chapters in history.

More than a million canadians served in the armed forces during World War 2.

For two days in May of 1945, they celebrated – the end of one of the bloodiest battles in history.