Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Canada Pavilion, also known as “Katimavik” (lower image)
Canada’s Pavilion faces Montreal on a site of 11 acres (30,285 sq. metres) at the upstream end of Ile Notre-Dame. Its 125 exhibits show how the nation has developed, the factors that shape the lives of Canadians, and what Canadians are like. Adjacent are the pavilions of the provinces of Canada.
A huge inverted pyramid—the Katimavik—dominates the buildings of the Canadian Pavilion. It takes its name from the Eskimo word for “gathering place”, significant reminder of Canada’s welcoming role as host to millions of visitors from every part of the world.
The pyramidal roofs of the principal building give a crystalline effect symbolic of the minerals and metals of Canada. Landscaped grounds slope through terraces to a canal and lagoon.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Ontario Pavilion
Beneath the soaring roofline of the Ontario Pavilion is an eye-opening window on the vast, rich, progressive Province of Ontario.
The pavilion on Ile Notre-Dame can be reached by Expo-Express or Minirail. The roof is a soaring angled structure of pyramid shapes which appears to float over an exhibit platform 18 feet above ground level. The roof is an opaque vinyl glass fibre membrane stretched over cigar-shaped steel booms. These lean at many angles to create various-sized exhibit areas.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Ontario Pavilion
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
United States Pavilion: ‘Creative America’ geodesic ‘bubble’
The United States exhibit, entitled Creative America, is designed to illustrate technological and esthetic inventiveness in the U.S.A.
A huge transparent geodesic “bubble” contains a multi-level system of exhibit platforms interconnected by escalators, and walkways. The platforms support a variety of exhibit components specially selected or designed for the new environment created by the structure.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
United States Pavilion: ‘Creative America’ geodesic ‘bubble’
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
United States Pavilion: ‘Creative America’ geodesic ‘bubble’ in foreground, USSR Pavilion in background
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Australia Pavilion
The Australian Pavilion, on Ile Notre-Dame near the Expo-Express station, is in a setting with typical Australian trees and shrubs, flowers—and a mob of kangaroos. A coral wonderland represents part of the Great Barrier Reef.
The pavilion is set on a steel and concrete pillars, and sloping walls of glass and aluminum aid natural lighting.
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Visitors to the pavilion proceed by a spiral ramp to main hall exhibits on Australian achievement and prospect. En route they view large colour transparencies showing typical Australians. Thus between environment and achievement, in the spirit of Man and his World, people have their place.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
The ‘Gyrotron’ created by Sean Kenny
“Gyrotron is unique, a $3,000,000 ride of the future suggesting outer space and the unknown. It puts the passenger into “orbit,” dumps him into a hissing, spitting volcano to be swallowed by a huge monster living within in it. It’s the fantasy of another world.” [Quoted from "Bill Bantey's Expo 67" book, a publication of the Gazette Printing Company (Limited), Montreal, April, 1967.]
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry Pavilion
Forests affect Man and his World profoundly. Paper, for which the forests produce raw material, is the principal tool Man uses to record his thoughts.
This is the theme of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion on Ile Notre-Dame—in which the tallest trees are as high as an eight story building.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry Pavilion + Steel Pavilion (left), Canadian Pacific Pavilion (right)
Visitors to the Canadian Pacific—Cominco Pavilion on Île Notré-Dame will see a completely new dimension in the art of motion pictures. Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, who produced an outstanding award-winning film for the New York World’s Fair, have used a new multi-camera film technique and spent 18 months traveling across Canada to produce a charmingly humorous film on Canadian youth against a background of some of the country’s most beautiful scenery. The viewer doesn’t just see the film—he will participate in it in an exciting and unusual manner.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Man in Community and Health Pavilions
Striking form, the mounting tiers of Canadian timber encloses five halls surrounding a hexagonal theatre core—Meditheatre.
This unique theatre-in-the-round, with live action on six stages serially combined with closely related and integrated cinema on three huge overhead screens, demonstrates six exciting aspects of medical skills applied to the extension or resumption of useful life.
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This is the vision then of Man in the Community, striking pavilion in Cité du Havre of which the architectural form suggests at once the power of a rocket and the elegance of a spire, a slender pyramid with trellis work of wood from the shores of Canada’s Pacific Coast. Between Habitat 67 and the Labyrinth pavilion, it is convenient to the Habitat Expo-Express station.
When it rains, the drops fall through the open roof into a pond in the center of the pavilion. A garden extends beyond the pavilion’s outer walls, round the pond and between the exhibit halls.
Daylight filters through a translucent canvas and shields the garden against inclement weather.
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Air Canada Pavilion (top image)
Air Canada’s pavilion, on Ile Sainte-Hélène adjacent to Métro and Minirail stations, tells the story of Man’s mastery of the air, and in its architectural form seeks to express the spirit of flight.
The blades of the helical, or spiral roof extend 87 feet at the base and 18 feet at the peak from a 60-foot center support column. They symbolize both flight and the fanning turbine blades of today’s jet engines.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry Pavilion (tree forest in foreground), USSR Pavilion and USA Pavilion in background
Crossing the LeMoyne Channel by Minirail to Ile Notre-Dame, visitors will see the silver grey pavilion of the Soviet Union to the left, with the dates 1917-1967 over the main entrance to mark the fifty years of the U.S.S.R.
The scope of the exhibits is on a scale commensurate with the activity of a dynamic country of 230 million inhabitants. In Cosmos Hall, Soviet space technology is on display and visitors can experience the sensations of space travel while comfortably seated in armchairs… there is a major exhibit devoted to Atoms for Peace… other exhibits describing the Soviet way of life, urban and rural… economic, scientific and engineering achievements… international relations and aid to developing countries… art and culture.
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Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
United States Pavilion: ‘Geodesic ‘bubble’ (top image), Mexico Pavilion (lower image)
Expo 67 / Photographer: Michael Rougier
United States Pavilion: ‘Creative America’ geodesic ‘bubble’
[ Images via LIFE photo archives / ©LIFE ]
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Rich, visually arresting photojournalism of much admired Expo 67 by notable long-time LIFE magazine staff photographer Michael Rougier (1928–2012) is seen above. Expo 67—the shortened moniker for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition—goes down in history as being the most successful World’s Fair of the 20th century.
–Amy
See/learn much more:
– Expo 67 in Montreal: A photo collection about Canada’s Centennial Celebration
– Wikipedia
– Expo 67 Lounge
– Expo 67 Foundation
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