Today is the 75th anniversary of the VE day riots in Halifax:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...sary-1.5551158
I remember hearing the stories from my father, who was a 14-year-old kid at the time. Of course my father being who he was, would have been out in the thick of it, for the spectacle that it turned out to be. His stories pretty much were as described in the article, but from a perspective of a kid who basically had no fear. What I remember the most is that one of the soldiers who had been looting said to him something to the effect of... "Hey kid, here you go" - and tossed him a watch that he had just looted from somewhere. As a somewhat poor kid living in the rough areas of downtown Halifax at the time, it meant a lot to him that the soldier would do that for him, even though the circumstances were somewhat dubious.
FWIW, if you go through the Halifax Municipal Archives and NS archives sites, there are more photos of the 'action' of that day.