Ethel Sutherland from Greenwich served with the Canadian during the war and made as many as five to six trips across the during wartime. Photo courtesy of John and Flora Sutherland. Many people remember where they were and what they were doing upon hearing the news of the war ending in Europe on May 8th, 1945. Sister Mary Irene MacKinnon of Southampton was writing her last exam at Toronto University in 1945 when the news that the war had ended reached the city: We were writing our exams when all the bells and everything in Toronto went off. The war was over. Some of the people who were writing the exam just got up and left their exam and walked out. Some of them had fathers, brothers or boyfriends who were in the army. They just couldn't cope so they took off. It was quite the feeling - very noisy and hard to concentrate. I didn't have any brothers in the war, as they were all too young. But some of my first cousins and a lot of men I knew from around home were in the war...it was quite interesting. (9) The church bells were ringing in St. Peters that same day that bells were ringing in Toronto while Sister Mary Irene wrote her Anatomy - 354