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Information
Guide
Notre-Dame
Park
expo67 Montréal Canada
Welcome to Expo ‘67
and British American Oil’s
Information Centre
in Notre Dame Park. We hope
the Centre and the
surrounding parkland will
provide a pleasant
contrast to the built-up pavilion
areas – a place for
relaxation and quiet enjoyment of
natural beauty and
exhibits of Canadian wildlife.
No Expo exhibit can
take the place of driving the
length and breadth
of Canada and seeing its breath-
taking sights for
yourself, but we hope you enjoy
this small sample.
[signature] C. Hay, President
The British American Oil
Company Limited
In the beautifully
land-
scaped park are
shrubs,
flowers, wildlife
exhibits,
Canadiana designs
in the
B-A Information
Centre,
exciting bridges,
wood
sculptures and a
photo
tower offering a
panoramic
view of the Seaway
and
Expo skyline.
Park Features
Regatta Lake is the
setting for a host of interesting
events including championship
canoe regattas
arranged by the
Canadian Canoe Association…
Water
transportation is available with ferries making
regular stops
around Regatta Lake; also, “Nowhere”
cruises taking a
leisurely route around the shoreline.
Carved and Painted
Lino Panels Thor Hansen
Stylized Animal
Illustrations Jacques Charette
Mother Earth
Sculpture Madame
Suzanne Guite
Don Quichotte
Sculpture Frere Bergeron
Wildlife
Description
1
Loutre/Otter
These weasel-like
animals love to play, chasing
one another,
wrestling, tumbling and sliding down
muddy banks. With
webbed feet, they are in their
element in the
water, feeding mainly on fish but
also small mammals,
frogs, insects, snakes and
some birds. They
live in holes in the banks of
rivers often
wintering under the ice, but will travel
miles overland in
search of food.
2
Phoque/Sea Lion
These large Pacific
coast mammals are powerful
swimmers, with
limbs that have developed
into flippers.
Famous for its honking bark,
the sea lion has
pointed ears and large eyes.
Males are much
larger than the females, which
have only a single
pup at a time. Females are
often captured
young and trained for circus
work because of
their intelligence and fine
sense of balance.
3
Daim a queue blange/Whitetail Deer
Startled, they
bound off into the woods with
their tails wagging
like signal flags. These graceful
creatures are found
throughout Canada east of
the Rocky
Mountains, and may even be seen
grazing in woodland
areas close to the towns. The
coats of fawns are
spotted, but deepen to a rich
chestnut red as the
animals reach maturity.
4
Elan/Elk
A large type of deer
found mainly in the Rocky
Mountains and other
parts of Western Canada,
they prefer
semi-open forests spending summers,
in the mountains
and winters in the valleys. Large
stags weigh up to
900 pounds, stand five feet
high at shoulders,
with antlers sometimes
branching five feet
wide. Antlers are shed every
spring, but a new
branch is added each year,
making as many as
fifteen to twenty points.
5
Bison/Buffalo
The great shaggy
buffalo of the plains is the
largest of the wild
animals in North America. Big them
bulls may weigh
over a ton. Huge herds totaling
60 million animals
once roamed the plains. As the
railways pushed
west, bison were slaughtered for
food, hides, bones,
sport, and were nearly
exterminated. Now
protected on reservations, their
numbers have
increased to several thousands.
6
Chien des prairies/Prairie Dog
These small
reddish-brown rodents live in burrows
on the prairies.
Each borough leads from an
entrance on high
ground to a series of chambers
below. Large communities
sometimes band
together, creating
underground cities of several
acres. With an
abundance of food and the
decrease of their
natural enemies such as snakes,
wolves, and birds
of prey, their population growth
it’s causing
problems in some areas.
More to come from this guide ...
