Completed in a record four years on artificially-built islands measuring 1000 acres in the middle of the Saint Lawrence River, Expo 67 was a Category One World’s Fair and the main celebration of the centenary of Canadian confederation in 1967. The scale and ambition of the project forever changed Canada, as well as the perception of Canada by foreign countries. With over 50 million visitors, the fair broke all previous attendance records and would prove to be the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century. Still considered to this day the largest cultural event ever held in North America, Expo 67 firmly established Montreal as an international world-class city and remains etched in the memory of all those who visited.
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00:00 Intro
03:16 Bidding & construction begins
06:06 Marketing the fair
10:20 Expo takes final shape
12:48 Montreal welcomes the world
16:43 Expo opens
20:09 Expo Express
21:49 The summer of love
23:14 The pavilions
27:30 The birth of IMAX
29:25 The impact and celebrities of Expo
33:13 La Ronde
34:49 Expo ends
36:45 Lasting impact
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9 ans plus tard ce fut les olympiques, les 21 iem
I will never forget EXPO '67 I was 9 years of age form Ontario Canada went to Saskatchewan early summer for two weeks then back home to Niagara for a week then out to Quebec for EXPO '67 for a week great care free times back then
The next year (1968) the Trudeau reign begins which let to the downfall and ruin of classic and proud Canada. Liberals are woke socialists who always destroy everything they touch.
Sad to see that Six Flags is tearing down the iconic mini rail! Never should historic landmarks be touched , could you imagine if the pyramids were torn down!? Shame on companies who dont see that life s value is not about money but about developing and working for a better future for all humanity! May peace from within continue to nourish the hopes of future generations. Peace and Love.
I was very young at that time and for me it seemed normal that people from all over the world came to visit us.
What this excellent video shows me is the extreme challenge it has been.
Where can I see this same documentary without the annoying, stock-music soundtrack?? Whoever thru that in I say "BOOO on YOU,sir! Boooo! "
I went a few times, was 17 and so fun!
I hope people will share this. Some amazing moments in this film. This deserves way more "Likes" than it has. Young Canadians need to see this. Also… I wish I had a TV tray from Expo 67'!
Lovely video! I was there a few times with my family at the impressionable age of 11, and I remember our visits like they were yesterday. My parents suprised us for our first visit by getting us up early one morning (they got us out of school for the day) and driving to Expo from Ottawa. The pavilions – everything was tall with large open interior spaces. Movies everywhere. The Bell 360 degree movie (I think we waited over an hour in the lineup for that one). I still have my passport: it was bragging rights at school when we came back home to have the most "stamps". I returned there a couple of years after it closed (called simply "Man And His World" then), and while still quite interesting it was nothing like the main event. As others have commented, this was a massive high point for Canada that likely will never be repeated, sad to say.
Imagine what Montréal and Quebec would be today if the PQ did not get into power 7 or so years after the Expo. They were far richer than English Canada. What a loss.
Yes, it was a landmark moment especially when you consider that even after more than 50 years, taxpayers are still paying for the corruption and budget overruns.
I was 16 and lived in a Montreal suburb. I must have visited 60 times. There is absolutely no way to describe what it felt like to be there back then. One thing they didn't mention was EXPO 67's greatest legacy, the lottery. To help pay for it, Jean Drapeau, the mayor of Montreal, started the very first lottery with a grand prize of $100,000. To give you an idea of how much that was, suburban houses were under $20,000 back then.
Nationalist Quebecers always fail to understand that there is no Expo '67 without the absolute cooperation between the English and French people of that city. It was that cooperation that allowed this exposition to be the most successful of all time. Fast forward 9 years later, when so much had changed in the province and the English were made to feel so unwelcomed in a place they too called home, a place where they too had lived in for centuries, many moved a few hundred miles west to Toronto and Montreal would no longer be the place that made it such a world class city. The '76 Olympics were, by many accounts, a failure. The Olympic stadium was not even fully completed in time. Without that same spirit of cooperation and having run so many of the city's Anglo community out of town, the proof was indeed in that Olympic pudding. Tribal politics at its worst, in may respects. Montreal has never been the same since this "movement". Respect is a two way street but the province's politicians decided long ago to peg Anglos vs the French for their own political gain. A seriously damn shame. Cheap Trick's song/video "Ghost Town" speaks to this.
Was there when I was ten, just remember the long lines.
lol de Gaulle.
I remember the commercial, “Come one come all come one and all. To Expo 67 Montreal.”
I was in utero during Expo!
I was 14 and my parents drove us from toronto to Montreal, we stayed in house and visited expo for a week. Watching this video brought back memories that I had and the various pavilions we visited,the trees of the Ontario pavilion stand out and many others. Great times as I went back to Montreal over the years to visit and revisit there
Ce fut plus pour le Québec le succès 1967 dès plus réussit contrairement au Canada
i was there, i was 11 years old, i still have my passport ❣
My dad was in his last year of High School and they had arranged a trip to go see the Expo but him being a stoner he didn't care about the Expo… To this day he regrets not going so much !
It's all awful brutalist jewish architecture and multicultural propaganda. Quebec died in the 60s.
I road the train across Canada to attend Expo 67.
It’s good there was one.
Montréal is Québec hart !!
J ai 73 ans et je possede encore mon passeport.Un caddeau de Noel 1966 de ma mere. Surement le plus beau cadeau que j ai recu. Eleve dans le Faubourgh a Melasse de Motreal j ai passe deux mois avec mon ami americain venu voir l expo du Kansas sur le pouce. Sandwichs au balone et 3 gros Orange Cruch n ayant pas beaucoup d argent on traversait le pont Jacques-Cartier a pied mais pour quel spectacle. J allais voir le monde a 30 minutes a pied de chez moi. M. le Maire Jean Drapeau a ete souvent critique mais pour l expo je lui dit bravo et surtout MERCI
How many of you have seen the island since then? As of 1996, it was absolutely desolate. Most of the buildings have been torn down.
Interesting video but the audio mixing is way off, seems like there are times when two songs are playing at once, very hard on the ears.
What a fantastic tribute video to Expo 67. I was there as a 4 year old and remember some of what I saw in the video. My main memory is looking up at my Mom looking back down at me in the daycare centre area which was a subfloor, open-air play area. It is a fond memory as I remember plenty of toys including small cars, trikes and other vehicles for kids to ride. I remember the tram ride through the Geodesic Dome which I found out today was the U.S. Pavillion. Didn't know that until just now. I even teared up a bit watching the video as it made me feel a swell of pride in Canada and it leaked out my eyes. LOL
Whatever happened to optimism?
I was 5 years old in 1967. My father who immigrated to Canada from Ukraine after World War 2, and eventually settled down in the states, in Missouri, decided that it would be a good idea to take me – a 5 year old boy on a 2176 mile round trip from our home in Missouri to Montreal, in his 1964 Plymouth Comet. And the fun begins … Though being really young, it may not have had such an impact upon me then – it surely did thereafter. My father loved taking pictures – a lot of them. And to my benefit, I was able to enjoy them for years to come, even today. The event was remarkable. It was futuristic in its time. It was beautiful, adventurous, and a lifetime memory that is still relevant today. Over time after the event, he would bring out photos of that trip, and I began to marvel at what was there. In 1999 my father passed away. To my huge surprise, I found so many more pictures and items from that trip and event. Everything was in great condition. He had made sure that after he was gone, I could enjoy and treasure it for years to come. There was an EXPO 67 pennant, brochures, pins, caps, a placemat from eating lunch there, stickers, and most importantly – special limited edition coin sets, commemorating Montréal's 100 year anniversary. In 2007, Montreal was to have a 40th Anniversary event to commemorate EXPO 67. I had seen that the Canadian Historical Association was to be there on display. After thinking how much the EXPO 67 items meant to me, I knew that people who would attend could appreciate them too. I contacted them and sent them pictures and offered to donate all the items, except one extra set of the special coins. The response was wonderful. They noted that some of the items, they had seen before, not so about the coins. They had never received anything like them. So, I packed everything up and sent them insured to Canada. What a great opportunity to share my special trip, memories and my fathers legacy with other Canadians. Thank you for reading my EXPO 67 story …..
I WAS 17 WHEN OUR FAMILY ENTERED THIS WONDERLAND. MONTREAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN HEAVEN FOR ME AND NEVER WAS I SO PROUD AS WHEN THIS CAME TO BE!!
With the U.S. committed to the Vietnam War, this was Canada's opportunity to shine. It makes me wonder if there were any Vietnamese people at the 1967 Montreal Expo.
It is absolutely incredible what Montrealers/Quebecers built in just 4 short years back then in the 60's, not only did they build the artificial island of Man and His World to host Expo '67 and LaRonde, but they also built and completed 3 separate Metro lines with 28 stations in a time before tunnel boring machines(TBM), the Decarie Express Way and then 9 years later the '76 Summer XXI Olympic Games. This was all made possible by Montreal's much beloved mayor of the time Jean Drapeau who loved this city and governed it like it was his own and got things done, Montrealers gave him a mandate of 38 years until he retired. Today Montreal can barely paint a straight line on a paved street to call a bike path or fill the potholes that were left 2 winters ago. Today they pat themselves on the back constructing the 3.4km Champlain bridge that took 8 years to design and build and another 3 years to tear down the old one. It took them over 6 years to complete just 3 Metro stations into Laval which again was 3 time over budget and 3 years late !
In an era when fashion magazines would list; Paris, London, New York, Montreal, Tokyo as the world's great cities Toronto was still Hog Town !
Thankyou that was such a joy to watch. I've always loved habitat '67, great to see quite a lot of original footage from the fair – brilliant expose too!
They could do this but apparently a World Cup hosting bid was too much.
What a missed opportunity by the natural 3rd Canadian host.
Montreal could’ve been one of the few cities in the world to host the expo, the Olympics and the fifa world cup…
As an 11 year old from British Columbia, I spent 2 days at Expo with my family on our way to visit relatives in New Brunswick. Watching this it is almost impossible to believe that 56 years have past. This brings to memory many of the sights that in my mind still seems new and exciting. A world's fair, smack dab in the middle of our centennial year we ( Canada) totally came of age 🍁
This made me cry. I was not even a thought back in 1967… I missed this amazing event. Makes me sad to see how happy people seemed back then and now amazing this place was. We don't seem to have such things today anymore…. Sad I missed it.
I was 14 and went with my older brother and sister by bus.
As a Montreal native, these are some of my earliest recollections as young child. The images and the songs bring back so many terrific memories. This was year my family moved from Ville Lasalle to South Shore St. Hubert where I lived until I moved to Toronto in late 80s. Thanks for posting this.
wish i lived during this time
Seeing the train go into The station at 1:05 Reminds me the round thing Walt Disney world a little?