The History of Canada Series: The Best Place To Be: Expo 67 And Its Time
The Best Place To Be, by John Lownsbrough - The Globe and Mail
And thanks to my perspicacious father, I was privileged to be able to attend most of it. Expo 67 and its Time Allen Lane, Over that eventful summer, my parents hosted about 45 houseguests, from the rest of Canada and the United States, including American relatives who came from Wisconsin, New York and New Jersey.
My parents each went 35 times to Expo 67, and assumed the duties of alternately taking me along with them. It was a magical time. He became the friendly face of the exhibition to the rest of Canada and the outside world. But pretty much everything else, in addition to the weather, fell perfectly into place in , for a remarkable, record setting event over 50 million visitors, a record that stands to the day for exhibition attendance that really did change the way Canada saw herself and how outsiders, particularly our American neighbours, viewed this relatively new country.
In fact, so comprehensive and inventive was Expo that I remember, less than a decade later, watching the U. One upping the U. I still remember the striking U. Other memories were more personal. In those enviable days the world seemed to love Israel, particularly after she utterly vanquished her Arab foes in the Six Day War of June My parents were European immigrants to this country and I can only imagine how they, especially my father, must have felt seeing their religion acknowledged that summer in such an important world exhibition.
As Lownsbrough points out in his book, it also marked the first time Protestants and Catholics in Canada worked in harmony on such a project, that of the Christian pavilion. Expo was meant to have a futuristic feel to it, with themed pavilions, Man the Explorer , Man the Creator , Man the Producer etc. I recall seeing TV phones and the promise that in the future, likely long before , the prediction that we would all be talking on such devices.
Cell phones were not predicted.
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I also still remember a funny comedy routine with Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber playing on TV in a loop at that time. Why them, of all the possible comedians out there?
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