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	Expo 67
		The nations that agreed to participate in Expo 67 either built their own pavilions or combined with other nations in regional pavilions.
		Expo 67 also encouraged participation by private industry and by special groups.
		Expo 67 and the Montréal International Film Festival combined to present a festival of more than 30 feature films during August.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC820243 (502 words)

	Expo '67
		Expo '67 was a World's fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967 to coincide with Canada's centennial that year.
		Expo 67 opened on April 27, 1967 and featured 90 pavilions for nations, corporations and industries including the U.S. pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.
		Expo 67 also featured the Habitat 67 housing complex designed by architect Moshe Safdie, which is still occupied.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ex/Expo_'67.html (153 words)

	Be Blommesteijn's Memoirs - Expo 67
		Expo 67 gave Canada an unprecedented opportunity to show the rest of the world that this country had reached the level of international status, was no longer to be considered a backward country and had become of age.
		Expo 67 did all that, did it with and did it with flair.
		Prime Minister Pearson in his remarks at the opening of Expo 67 said "This is a proud day for Montreal, for Quebec and above all for Canada." Expo 67 had a great impact on our lives.
	www.magma.ca /~triplb/Moms-memoirs-expo67.htm (417 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Expo 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is the eight-hundred-million-dollar question posed by Expo 67, the "universal and international exhibition" being held in Montreal from April 28 to October 27.
		...Expo's theme pavilions make a valiant effort to deal honestly and systematically with the contemporary challenge to man and his world, and there are some minor masterpieces of clarification and popularization...
		...This is the Aeight-hundred-million-dollar question posed by Expo 67, the "universal and international exhibition" being held in Montreal from April 28 to October 27...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V44I1P34-1.htm (5984 words)

	CBC.ca - Canadian Experience: Expo '67: Back to the future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Canadian Experience explores the exhilarating experience of Expo 67, which had a lasting personal impact on a generation of Canadians, and launched Canada as an enthusiastic participant in the global village.
		EXPO 67: Back to the Future tells the story of how failure was predicted for Expo by negative English Canadian press who anticipated disaster.
		EXPO 67: Back to the Future is a stirring reminder of an exciting and optimistic time.
	www.cbc.ca /canadianexperience/expo67 (495 words)

	Expo 67 on Battlestar Galactica
		In 1979 the aging grounds of Expo 67 and "Man and His World" made an appearance on the science fiction series "Battlestar Galactica".
		The series was the story of a band of human survivors fleeing a murderous race of robots, and their adventures as they searched for possible allies on the lost world of Earth.
		A number of the remaining structures of Expo 67 were used for the capital of Paradeen.
	www.worldsfairphotos.com /expo67/battlestar-galactica.htm (526 words)

	Expo '92 Seville
		Consequently, the next world's fair, EXPO '67 in Montreal, was the largest forum ever for largescale and specialized media theaters.
		EXPO '92 has its share of novel media theaters and attractions with a wide range of technical and aesthetic quality.
		The largest dome theater at EXPO '92 was a 315 seat Omnimax theater in the Discoveries Pavillion, projecting on an 80 foot diameter dome with a 15 kw projector.
	www.naimark.net /writing/expo.html (2883 words)

	Designing Britain - Expo Introduction
		Expo ’67, the 85th world fair, was held between 28th April and 29th October 1967 in the Canadian city of Montreal.
		Expo ’67 was located in the newly regenerated dockland area of Montreal and was built on the dockside and on two islands - the Ile St Helene and the Ile Notre Dame - in the St Lawrence River.
		The culmination of this interest was the construction of Habitat ’67, a model housing estate designed by Moshe Safdie and David Barott, on the dockside.
	vads.ahds.ac.uk /learning/designingbritain/html/expointro.html (447 words)

	Montreal 1967
		Still, the Expo planners wanted to limit the types of pavilions at the fair, of which there were only five: national, theme, or commercial pavilions, and commercial or service structures.
		The Expo Express, visible on the map as a brown line, consisted in electric trains traveling at twenty-five miles per hour that linked extreme ends of the exposition, connecting the Cité du Havre to La Ronde.
		The main entrance to La Ronde was an Expo Express stop (number 513 on the map), which arrived at the Esplanade, an open area towards the left and center of the map.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1967mont.html (2446 words)

	Expo 67 - Architecture
		Expo 67 officials decided to allow free reign in architectural style as long as participant's pavilions fit in with the overall loose theme "Man and his World."
		By the time Expo 67 was conceived, city architecture had become quite conservative and filled our cities with economical, predictable tall boxy buildings.
		Worse, while it was on Expo 67 grounds, when Expo 67 closed, it would be some distance from the rest of Montreal's business and housing neighborhoods.
	www.westland.net /expo67/map-docs/architecture.htm (1999 words)

	expo lounge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Expo 67 was an enormous undertaking for the City of Montreal.
		Expo 67's 30th anniversary in 1997 was great; it was then that I first fell in love with Expo.
		Instead of riding the Minirail, the Expo Express or the Metro, guests were invited to "ascend the mountain by means of the Park Incline Railway".
	expolounge.blogspot.com (3309 words)

	Repair Foggy Windows & Condensation Problems Crystal Clear Window Works
		We were honored recently to have the opportunity to work at the world famous "Habitat 67" project in Montreal, Canada.
		Expo's Habitat 67 was a revolutionary building designed by Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie.
		One of the few Expo 67 buildings still being used for its original purpose, it contains 158 dwellings with 20 types of houses ranging from 1 to 4 bedrooms with each unit environmentally placed to optimize living conditions.
	www.ccwwi.com /News-habitat-67.html (114 words)

	Expo 67 Montreal Postcards
		Expo 67 (the abbreviated title of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967) was open from April 28 to October 27, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
		When purchased at the expo a single day passport was $2.50 for adults and $1.25 for children; seven day passports were $12.00 for adults; and season passports were $35.00 for adults.
		A map of Expo 67 with the locations of the Pavilions can be found on the next page.
	www.alamedainfo.com /Expo_67_Montreal.htm (215 words)

	Expo '67
		One of the most successful international exhibitions of the 20th Century, Expo 67 gave Montréal the opportunity to show itself as an international city and proved once and for all that Canada had come of age.
		The Canadian government's application to the International Exhibitions Bureau in Paris for the right to hold a "first-category" exhibition, as this was called, was rejected in favour of the U.S.S.R, which was marking the 50th anniversary of the Communist regime.
		But the real meaning of Expo 67 came from the theme itself, a clear representation of the optimism of the time.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10228 (376 words)

	Expo '67: Geodesic Dome - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Expo '67: Geodesic Dome - Picture - MSN Encarta
		This geodesic dome was built for the United States pavilion at Expo ’67, the world’s fair in Montréal, Canada.
		They are made of standardized, interlocking shapes that can be assembled and taken apart quickly.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461518940/Expo_'67_Geodesic_Dome.html (60 words)

	expo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Expos played at Olympic Stadium in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and took their name from a 1967...
		Expo '74, the first world's fair to have an environmental theme, opened in Spokane, Washington, in May 1974.
		It was situated in a park that had been...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /expo.html (72 words)

	The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » Expo 67 Documents
		These are a handful of the many documents prepared to help in the delivery of Expo 67.
		Expo 67 College Editors kit - An overview of the Expo and all its events aimed at college students.
		Expo Voyages - This is a booklet for visitors from outside of Canada to use.
	www.canadiandesignresource.ca /officialgallery/?p=891 (228 words)

	EXPO 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I just found this token listed in Feisel's "Parking Tokens of the World" as Quebec 3620 ZB: "This token was given in the Expo 67 parking lot to those persons presenting an United States $1 for payment of the parking fee to compensate for the difference in exchange rates.
		That term was invented by Americans whose New York expo did not meet the strict criteria of the international exposition board in Paris.
		Expo 67 was an officially sanctioned expo.) The reverse of the token has the same phrase in both English and French.
	users.pullman.com /fjstevens/tokens/tokens/2608.html (154 words)

	Expo 67 - Main Index
		Expo 67 exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2005
		Some Expo 67 pavilions that were never built
		John Stockl for the post-era photographs on Expo 67
	expo67.ncf.ca (851 words)

	Expo 67 - United States Pavilion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unlike many of Fuller's ugly squat half domes, the one at Expo was a 3/4 sphere set amidst a park-like setting.
		Since Expo officials said that the pavilion's exhibits shouldn't be trade fairs, the pavilion's seven Cambridge designers decided to show the craftsmanship, inventiveness and creativity of the American people.
		These were perhaps the most controversial paintings at Expo since some visitors didn't think of them as works of art.
	britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca /expo67/unitedstates.html (845 words)

	Unasylva - No. 85 - Wood at Expo 67
		All of the Expo service areas A to E have used plywood beams as a supporting roof structure and 2.7-meter 9-foot stressed skin plywood wall panels to support the beams.
		The plywood funnel design creates a continuous circulation of the interior air by means of the draw developed by the bunsen effect of the natural airstream passing in front of the funnel opening.
		Habitat 67 is presented as one answer to urban redevelopment that provides space, privacy and variety of choice.
	www.fao.org /docrep/59708e/59708e05.htm (2589 words)

	Be Blommesteijn's Memoirs - Expo 67 - Foreign Dignitaries
		The fair was visited by many of the most notable people of the day including Queen Elizabeth II, Lyndon Johnson, Princess Kelly of Monaco, Jacqueline Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Harry Belafonte, Robert Kennedy, Thelonious Monk, Ed Sullivan, Maurice Chevalier, Ethiopian Emperor Selassie, Carol Channing and Robert Wagner.
		De Gaulle was ostensibly in Canada to visit Montreal's Expo '67, an exposition organized in honor of the Canadian confederation's centennial.
		The Boy Scouts of Canada was assigned the task of raising the flag during Expo 67.
	www.magma.ca /~triplb/Moms-memoirs-expo67-foreign-dignitaries.htm (1023 words)

	ExpoMuseum / 1967 MontrÈal
		Expo '67 also introduced the idea of expo passports, wherein you could get your book stamped as you visited each pavilion.
		Expo '67 - from the National Archives of Canada, in English and French
		Expo 67: Montréal capitale du monde - from Radio-Canada, in French
	expomuseum.com /1967 (93 words)

	Expo 67 - Montreal World's Fair
		Expo 67, the Montreal World's Fair coincided with Canada's 100th anniversary of "Confederation" in 1967.
		Expo 67 was an internation exhibition of the first category with over 90 foreign, provincial, industrial and "theme" pavilions.
		Although several buildings, like the USSR and Czech pavilions, were removed immediately after Expo 67 closed, most pavilions stood until the mid-1980's, several years after the annual Man and His World summer exhibition ended in 1981.
	www.westland.net /expo67 (1124 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Expo 67 'Monument To Man' Opens In Canada, 1967/05/02
		Expo 67 the largest world's fair ever opens in Canada, on two man-made islands in St. Lawrence River, on 100th anniversary of Canada, jets fly overhead, waterfalls (partial newsreel)
		Montreal is a nice place to live and see..ask people from showbiz or grandprix....Expo 67 was meaningfull exposition because of is title: MEN AND HIS WORLD.
		Newsreel story about Expo Â’67, a huge worldÂ’s fair that unfortunately opened during the days when worldÂ’s fairs were waning, so you donÂ’t hear much about it today.
	www.archive.org /details/1967-05-02_Expo_67 (266 words)

	Expo 67 \| MetaFilter
		I read about Expo 67 as a teen and was stunned by how cool it was.
		I was concieved at expo 67, so I guess on balance it was a good thing.
		Expo 67 and the 76 Olympics seem to be the two major drivers of Montreal construction over the last century, as can be seen in the extremely poured-concrete aesthetic of most of downtown Montreal.
	www.metafilter.com /56708/Expo-67 (1181 words)

	Index for Expo '67 slides for sale
		In 1967 Canada celebrated the 100th birthday of the nation in spectacular style, hosting "Expo '67".
		This World's Fair was held on a group of islands at Montreal, with colorful pavilions from nations around the world.
		Expo proved to be so popular that it stayed open as "Man and His World" for several years, and portions of the fair are still in use today.
	www.billcotter.com /expo67/index.htm (716 words)

	expo lounge
		Expo Lounge is a weblog dedicated to my retro passions, including, but not only limited to, Expo 67.
		I'm really amazed at some of the things that I find on the Internet.
		That alone should bring the concept of fondue parties racing back to contemporary society!...
	expolounge.blogspot.com /2006/10/cheese-fondue-recipe-from-expo-67.html (310 words)

	The Worlds Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide
		The Expo Symbol, eight identical groups of paired figures representing the unity of mankind in the world, is fashioned after the oldest known drawings of man.
		The 22 minute film "Canada 67" was produced in "Circle-Vision 360º" by Walt Disney using a 9 camera rig weighing 400 pounds.
		Even a 20 foot high fountain in the plaza was constructed from a large chunk of green asbestos ore. A sharp contrast to the Nature an Environmental theme that was prevalent throughout the exposition.
	www.earthstation9.com /1967_mon.htm (2289 words)

	Cork Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Time has run out for the Golden Gate expo of 1939-40, the gates are closed and it stands deserted, its future uncertain.
		The additional music is titled `Information Explosion`, created for the Scandanavian Pavilion at Expo 67 by Finnish com-posers Erkki Salmenhaara and Erkki Kurenniemi.
		Music by Tristram Cary composed to accompany Don Levy`s triple screen film `Sources of Power`, which was shown in the British Pavilion at Expo 67 as a 4 minute loop.
	www.corkfilmfest.org /ciff/i-helliwell-i.html (763 words)

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