Opening day of Expo 67,
April 28, 1967 Montréal Canada
From the pictures that we
have it was awfully cold that summer. But at seven years it was special for a
lot of reasons. And now that I look back, well, the brochures and pamphlets
take on a different meaning.
Toronto Star April 28, 1967
“The cannoncade of fireworks
which marked the opening of Expo may in retrospect turn out to have been one of
those rare moments that changed the direction of a nation’s history … This is
the greatest thing we have ever done as a nation and surely the modernization
of Canada – of its skylines, of its styles, its institution – will be dated
from this occasion and from this fair. … The more you see of it, the more
you’re overwhelmed by a feeling that if this is possible, that is this little
sub-arctic, self-obsessed country of 20,000,000 people can put on this kind of
show, then it can do almost anything.”
Peter
C Newman
This is a link from Libraries and Archives Canada on everything Expo 67, well not everything
1 comment:
Interesting to call us "self-obsessed."
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