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| QUICK LIST INFO |
Dates open ...
April 28 to October 29, 1967.
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Attendance ...
Visitor attendance 50,306,648.
54,992,000 total (including staff) |
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Total costs ...
Capital & Operating Expenditures (as of
12-31-1967) Total CDN$415.920 million
Total Revenues ... CDN$147.196 million |
Value of Assets Transferred to Government ...
CDN$180 million |
| Site acreage ... 769.02 (exhibition site), 988.70 (including
parking area) |
| Sanction ... B.I.E. General Expo of the 1st
Category (Universal Style Exposition) 11-13-1962 |
| Theme ... "Man and His World" |
International participation ... 59 nations, 2
colonies.
Canadian
Provinces/U.S. States ... 7 bldgs.
Corporate/domestic
participants ... 33 |
Cost of daily ticket ...
Adult (during fair) US$2.40 |
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| THOSE IN CHARGE |
H.E. Pierre Dupuy (Ambassador & Commissioner
General)
in charge of international participation, World Festival of Performing
Arts, fine arts exhibits and matteres of ceremony and protocol.
Robert F. Shaw, Deputy Commissioner-Genernal
assisted the
commissioner general and dealt with administrative problems, acted as
chairman of the corporation's executive committee, at times the Board
of Directors plus directed the corporation's business with the 3
gov'ts.
Andrew G. Kniewasser, General Manager, was
responsible for the management of the corporation and directed the six
departments.
Director of Finance and Administration, G. Dale
Rediker, was in charge of finance systems and procedures, budgeting,
etc.
Director of Installations, Colonel Edward
Churchill. Director of Operations.
Philippe de Gaspe' Beaubien, responsible for
operation of exhibition. Director of Exhibits.
Pierre de Bellefeuille, in charge of sales to
exhibitors
and sponsors in gov't and private sectors and laison between exhibitors
and corporation.
Director of Public Relations and Promotion, Yves
Jasmin.
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| FAIR REVUE HEADLINES |
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New York
Times
"Pearson
Lights Expo 67's Flame and a 'Monument to Man' is Opened."
"Crisp Sunny Weather Draws
120,000 Sightseers to the 1st Day of Expo"
"Pearson and Wife Ride
in Minirail"
"A Sin City No More -
Mayor Acclaims Montreal, the Home of Expo, as Great and Respectable"
"A Dome and a Box Compete
at Fair - U.S. and Soviet Pavilions Among Big Attractions"
"Expo 67 Stamps Draw
Collectors"
"The Boss at the Fair"
"Habitat: Exciting
Concept, Flawed Execution"
"Crowds Surpass Expo
Prediction"
"Demonstration Housing Unfettered by Tradition"
"The World on Display:
Montreal Fair Outshines New York's in Some Respects, but Not All" |
| PUBLICATIONS & GUIDEBOOKS |
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This
ragged copy of the Expo '67 guidebook, as well as a copy of the
Official Map of "Man and His World" circa 1969, show but two examples
of the many guidebooks, travel guides, and pavilion pamphlets that were
available from the exposition authority as well as the individual
pavilions.
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| Montreal |
Quebec, Canada,
1967
Expo '67 |
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| EXPO PARTICIPANTS (By Type) |
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Provice/State Pavilions
Maine, Atlantic Provinces, New York, Ontario, Vermont,
Quebec,
Western Provinces
Private
Pavilions
Hospitality Pavilion, Air Canada,
Alcan Pavilion, Canadian Kodak,
International Broadcast Center,
Boy Scouts of Canada,
Dolphin Pool & Montreal Aquarium,
Fort St. Helene, Canadian National,
Brewers Pavilion Safari, Canadian Pacific/Cominco
Intl Trade
Center (Expo Club), Polymer, Canadian Pulp & Paper Industry,
Quebec Liquor Board, Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, Sun Life,
Centennial Carillon, Chatelaine Magazine, Telephone Pavilion, Christian
Pavilion, Olympic House, Tour de Le'vis (La), European Community,
Quebec Industries, Indians of Canada,
Kalaidescope, OECD Pavilion, Pavilion of Economic Progress, Pavilion of
Judaism,
Pavilion of United Nations, Sermons from Science Pavilion, Steel
Pavilion.
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PARTICIPATING NATIONS
(Order of Precedence) |
Canada
12-11-62
Great
Britain 29-01-63
Belgium
03-05-63
France 30-08-63
Morocco
16-12-63
Netherlands
04-02-64
Austria
13-02-64
Federal Republic of Germany 18-02-64
Venezuela
04-05-64
Israel 28-05-64
Iran
16-06-64
Sweden (Scandinavian Pavilion) 19-06-64
Finland
(Scandinavian Pavilion) 19-06-64
Denmark (Scandinavian Pavilion) 19-06-64
United
States 30-07-64
Ceylon
15-08-64
Republic of
China 25-08-64
Jamaica 25-08-64
Monaco
01-09-64
Italy 16-09-64
Norway
(Scandinavian Pavilion) 21-09-64
Iceland (Scandinavian Pavilion) 25-09-64
Czechoslovakia
02-11-64
Japan 04-11-64
Tunisia 25-11-64
Switzerland 09-12-64
Ghana (Africa Place) 24-12-64
Trinidad & Tobago 21-01-65
Niger (Africa Place) 24-01-65
Ivory Coast (Africa Place) 24-01-65
Cameroon (Africa
Place) 24-02-65
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Barbados 01-03-65
Thailand
03-03-65
U.S.S.R. 08-03-65
Chad
(Africa Place) 09-03-65
India
11-03-65
Ethiopia
19-03-65
Korea
27-04-65
Haiti
10-05-65
Yugoslavia 13-05-65
Democratic Rep. of Congo (Africa
Place) 03-06-65
Cuba 13-07-65
Guyana
(Barbados & Guyana Pav.) 14-07-65
Australia 23-07-65
Tanzania
(Africa Place) 26-08-65
Mauritius 02-09-65
Gabon (Africa
Place) 03-09-65
Algeria
04-10-65
Senegal
(Africa Place) 04-10-65
Togo (Africa Place) 15-10-65
Mexico
18-10-65
United Arab Republic 21-10-65
Kuwait
21-10-65
Kenya (Africa Place) 03-12-65
Greece
01-02-66
Burma
14-03-66
Madagascar
(Africa Place) 30-03-66
Uganda (Africa Place) 14-04-66
Grenada
(Trinidad & Tobago & Grenada Pav.) 09-05-66
Rwanda (Africa Place) 06-10-66
Nigeria
(Africa Place) 08-12-66 |
| | EXPO TIDBITS |
- 17.6m cubic
yards of fill used to create 297 acres of additional land around
existing islands in the St. Lawrence River.
- Expo-Express
transit system carried 44 million people during exhibition.
- There were 39
restaurants and 66 snack bars.
- There were
800 employees in the Amusement Park.
- Largest
single day crowd of 530,000 on April 30.
- 30 day
transit
strike in late Sept. halted city buses and new Metro system and is said
to have caused loss of a potential 5 million in attedance.
- Expo 67
innovations, introduction of passport ticket.
- Canada's travel
dollars reached a peak of $1.25 billion in 1967.
- Buckminster
Fuller's gigantic geodesic dome structure that was the U.S. Pavilion,
complete with a monorail running directly through it, was destroyed by
fire on May 20, 1976.
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THEME PAVILIONS, PLAZAS & SCULPTURES
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Theme
Pavilions
Art Gallery, Dupont of Canada Auditorium, Man the Producer,
Labrynth, Resources for
Man, Man & His
Health, Garden of Sculpture, Progress,
Man in the Community, Man the Explorer, Man in Control, Photography & Individual Design
Pavilion, Man and Life, Man the Provider,
Man, his
Planet & Space, Man
and the Ocean, Man &
the Polar Regions.
Plazas
Rapids Plaza, International Nickel
Plaza, Esplanada, Africa Place, Theatre Plaza, Place de Nations,
Asbestos Plaza, Plaza de las Americas, Engineers Plaza,
Plaza of the Universe,
Landing Plaza, Transportation Plaza.
Park Area
Habitat Park, Helene de Champlain Park, Parque del
Retiro, Seaward Point, Notre Dame Park, Harbor Point, Rest Garden
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| AMUSEMENT RIDES (LA RONDE) |
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Carrefour
International, Children's World, Dancing Water (West.),
Flume
Ride, Garden of the Stars, Gyrotron, Lake Viewpoint,
Laterna
Magika, The Lighthouse, The Mall,
The
Moorings, Pioneerland/Fort Edmonton, The Rides Centre,
Sky
Ride, La Spirale, Timberland, Le Village,
Youth
Pavilion
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| FREE ON-SITE TRANSPORTATION |
Transportation services included free
transporation from parking areas to main access points and free
mass-transit system connecting the four main areas of the site.
On-site bus service was run by Montreal Transportation system on rental
basis, trailer trains/canal boats/hovercraft/helicopters were operated
as concessions, and the three major facilities were designed, built and
operated by the corporation. (Expo Express, three minirail
systems (2 from monorail purchased from the Lausanne National Exhbition
of 1964, and new larger monorail for Ile Notre-Dame, and skyride)
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TOP TEN RESTAURANTS
(By Sales Volume) |
PAVILIONS THAT IMPRESSED
THE MOST |
- Bavarian Restaurant-Carrefour International
- USSR Pavilion Restaurant
- Canadian Pavilion Restaurant
- Czechoslovakia Pavilion Restaurant
- Canadian Brewer's Pavilion Restaurant
- West Germany Pavilion Restaurant
- St. Hubert BarBQ - Theme Pavilion
- Scandinavian Pavilion Restaurant
- Ontario Pavilion Restaurant
- Raphael 67 - Theme Pavilion
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- Telephone
18%
- USSR
13%
- Czechoslovakia
9%
- United Kingdom 8%
- United States
8%
- Theme
Pavilions. 8%
- France
6%
- Canada
6%.
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