I lived in Montreal during the sixties and vividly remember taking Sunday drives down to see the progress of this massive change to our Ste. Helen's Island. My best friend and I skipped school to attend the first day of opening of Expo 67, and I conducted many, many tours of the Islands for friends and relatives. What a great trip down memory lane of a great time and place !!
We visited Expo 67 twice - during Memorial Day and again in August when my cousin got married. I still remember taking the Metro to Expo, the Expo Express and the mini-rails, especially the one that went right through the Us Pavilion. Accommodations were no problem for us - we stayed with my uncle!
What a fantastic world’s fair this was! Loved attending this fair! I will never forget it. We took a Peter Pan bus trip from Spfld., Massachusetts to the fair & I was just 17 yrs old. I will never forget the great time we had there!
@@gagansandhu1584 It was a World's Fair, and countries from all over the world came to showcase their countries. I was just 5 years old at the time, but the visit to Expo 67 and Montreal has a profound influence on my life.
What a great time this was to be a kid! EPIC MONTREAL. Your access Pass was an EXPO 67 "PASSPORT" book that you could have stamped in each country's Pavillion! Everything was done intelligently. The Expo Express later and all the Mini-rail train had no drivers ALL AUTOMATIC!
Many people I knew did get to go ,I did not .I have missed out on many things in life . I wish it could have been kept, along with The 1964/65 New York World's Fair.
Many people who have been living in Montreal for decades do not even know that this event took place. Many also do not know that we hosted the Olympic Games either.
Dommage que la plupart de ces constructions impressionnantes n'ont pas été conservées pour les générations qui n'ont pas connu cette époque. Maintenant, l'administration du parc Jean-Drapeau gère le parc de manière controversée. Un canal remblayé avec de la terre et du gazon, un stationnement de roulottes, des centaines d'arbres abattus, un vestige de pont de train rouillé, un lac des cygnes pas de cygnes, une piste cyclable sur le pont JC inaccessible la moitié de l'année, mais on a 40 M$ à garocher sur l'illumination du pont. On n'a pas voté pour ça. Et le métro toujours arrêté à une seule station à Longueuil 50 ans plus tard.Le Québec pourrait faire mieux, si on avait des leaders politiques plus ambitieux.
I liked the music, which went uncredited... Anyone know where the music came from? I am curious as to whether it was background music commissioned for this piece or if there are records with those sounds I might wish to know about...
C'est vraiment un Canada perdu: jeune, naïf, audace, progressif, fier mais innocent, fabuleux... Truly, a Canada lost to us in these tedious, reactionary and paranoid times: fresh, callow, daring, forward thinking, proud but innocent, fabulous...
J'avais 16 ans à l'époque, quelle époque ! Dire que le Québec d'alors comptait à peine 3,5 millions d'habitants (plus de la moitié sur l'Île de Montréal) et a été capable de tenir une exposition universelle qui a attiré plus de 50 millions de visiteurs en six mois. Serions-nous capables d'en faire autant aujourd'hui ? J'en doute. Que reste-t-il de cet événement d'envergure internationale ? Peu de choses : l'Île Notre-Dame inventée de toute pièce par les excavations du métro, la Biosphère (pavillon américain dont la membrane s'est enflammée en 1976), un casino (pavillons de la France et du Québec réaménagés en conséquence), un Calder rouillé, Habitat 67 et des ruines. Quelle désolation ! Toute l'infrastructure pour la tenue de cet événement - les autoroutes, ponts, métro - tombent en ruine, faute d'entretien adéquat depuis ces temps mémorables. Le slogan de l'époque était d'ailleurs : Québec sait faire !
My brother had broken his ankle shortly before we attended Expo 67 so we pushed him around in a wheelchair much of the time. While standing in line to get into the USSR pavilion, my father accidentally pushed the footrest of the wheelchair into the back of my sister's ankle. The resulting cut was not too deep but it bled a lot and we were all kind of traumatized by this event, small though it was.
I lived in Montreal during the sixties and vividly remember taking Sunday drives down to see the progress of this massive change to our Ste. Helen's Island. My best friend and I skipped school to attend the first day of opening of Expo 67, and I conducted many, many tours of the Islands for friends and relatives. What a great trip down memory lane of a great time and place !!
We visited Expo 67 twice - during Memorial Day and again in August when my cousin got married. I still remember taking the Metro to Expo, the Expo Express and the mini-rails, especially the one that went right through the Us Pavilion. Accommodations were no problem for us - we stayed with my uncle!
Its like being there - wonderful selection of footage - much better than the Pathe impressions. The NFB never lets me down. You guys rock.
What a fantastic world’s fair this was! Loved attending this fair! I will never forget it. We took a Peter Pan bus trip from Spfld., Massachusetts to the fair & I was just 17 yrs old. I will never forget the great time we had there!
It was shown frequently as a trade test colour film on TV in the UK in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
I went there as a child; it was amazing!!
so can you tel me plz what does expo 67 mean i live in montréal from last 3 years i love that city
@@gagansandhu1584 It was a World's Fair, and countries from all over the world came to showcase their countries. I was just 5 years old at the time, but the visit to Expo 67 and Montreal has a profound influence on my life.
@@matkinssm5919 thanks so much to enhance my knowledge about montréal, i love that city
I went too. This video is really good.
What great memories of this exhilarating “trip around the world”!
What a great time this was to be a kid! EPIC MONTREAL. Your access Pass was an EXPO 67 "PASSPORT" book that you could have stamped in each country's Pavillion! Everything was done intelligently. The Expo Express later and all the Mini-rail train had no drivers ALL AUTOMATIC!
That looks like so much fun! Shame that the site is gone, but the retro-futuristic imaginative vibe lives on in Montreal.
I grew up hearing stories of the expo from all my family members, I've always been fascinated. sadly not something I'll ever experience.
Many people I knew did get to go ,I did not .I have missed out on many things in life . I wish it could have been kept, along with The 1964/65 New York World's Fair.
Merci. I have been hunting it down a long time. We sang together when I was 12 years old.
Brilliant.
Thanks for posting.
beautiful footage
A time when the world was a much nicer place...went in 68 and it was fabulous.
Many people who have been living in Montreal for decades do not even know that this event took place. Many also do not know that we hosted the Olympic Games either.
Dommage que la plupart de ces constructions impressionnantes n'ont pas été conservées pour les générations qui n'ont pas connu cette époque. Maintenant, l'administration du parc Jean-Drapeau gère le parc de manière controversée. Un canal remblayé avec de la terre et du gazon, un stationnement de roulottes, des centaines d'arbres abattus, un vestige de pont de train rouillé, un lac des cygnes pas de cygnes, une piste cyclable sur le pont JC inaccessible la moitié de l'année, mais on a 40 M$ à garocher sur l'illumination du pont. On n'a pas voté pour ça. Et le métro toujours arrêté à une seule station à Longueuil 50 ans plus tard.Le Québec pourrait faire mieux, si on avait des leaders politiques plus ambitieux.
I sow it it was beautiful
Sigh! Childhood memories.
Un souvenir
Dig that crazy organ man!
I liked the music, which went uncredited... Anyone know where the music came from? I am curious as to whether it was background music commissioned for this piece or if there are records with those sounds I might wish to know about...
And what a shame that it couldn't have been kept...
C'est vraiment un Canada perdu: jeune, naïf, audace, progressif, fier mais innocent, fabuleux...
Truly, a Canada lost to us in these tedious, reactionary and paranoid times: fresh, callow, daring, forward thinking, proud but innocent, fabulous...
+Autostade67 What a Beautiful exhibition in a different,somewhat better time in Canada!
The music sounds like Stax's Booker T. And The MGs, except that it isn't.
J'avais 16 ans à l'époque, quelle époque ! Dire que le Québec d'alors comptait à peine 3,5 millions d'habitants (plus de la moitié sur l'Île de Montréal) et a été capable de tenir une exposition universelle qui a attiré plus de 50 millions de visiteurs en six mois. Serions-nous capables d'en faire autant aujourd'hui ? J'en doute. Que reste-t-il de cet événement d'envergure internationale ? Peu de choses : l'Île Notre-Dame inventée de toute pièce par les excavations du métro, la Biosphère (pavillon américain dont la membrane s'est enflammée en 1976), un casino (pavillons de la France et du Québec réaménagés en conséquence), un Calder rouillé, Habitat 67 et des ruines. Quelle désolation ! Toute l'infrastructure pour la tenue de cet événement - les autoroutes, ponts, métro - tombent en ruine, faute d'entretien adéquat depuis ces temps mémorables. Le slogan de l'époque était d'ailleurs : Québec sait faire !
mic90042 et maintenant c est quebec savait faire
Maintenant la devise est : "Je me souviens" et bientôt après tout les déboires politiques et sociaux économique se sera : " Je me souviens plu"
My brother had broken his ankle shortly before we attended Expo 67 so we pushed him around in a wheelchair much of the time. While standing in line to get into the USSR pavilion, my father accidentally pushed the footrest of the wheelchair into the back of my sister's ankle. The resulting cut was not too deep but it bled a lot and we were all kind of traumatized by this event, small though it was.
Футуристично и грандиозно!
Alvvays
Some of the shots and music look like a 60's Bond/secret agent movie! Maybe it's guy with the babe on the monorail at 4:32?!
He wishes.
Looks a bit like Don Draper from “Man Men”.
How the geodesic dome was abandoned and went derelict is very sad...has there been any redevelopment recently?
Canada's last 'good year'!
The momentum and a the accelerated vision of the future started and kind of stopped at Expo 67.
Where's Molly?!
*Le beau temps où les gens étaient Blancs et homogènes, fiers et cultivés !!*
Don Draper at 4:30
Montrteal was living in a dream back then. Not so much now....
Venezuela the best
Is this the original sound track ? Hmm no nice try