The Western Union Cable Office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sydney,_Nova_Scotia" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North Sydney, Nova Scotia">North Sydney, Nova Scotia</a>, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa" id="mwnA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> and Washington, D.C.) that said on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_11,_1918" id="mwnQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="November 11, 1918">November 11, 1918</a>, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.