09-11-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com

This Week in History: 1918, The Great War finally ends

At midnight on Nov. 11, 1918, The Vancouver Sun received a short message on its newswire: “FLASH — Armistice signed.”
Within a minute of receiving the news, The Vancouver Sun’s presses were printing an extra edition announcing the First World War was over.
The Vancouver Museum has a copy of the extra, and it is just awesome, maybe the best front page in the paper’s history.
A giant headline proclaims “PEACE!” on the top of the page. The main illustration
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