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196728 April – 29 October 1967 · Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal

Expo 67

Expo 67 pavilions on the islands in 1967, with the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the US geodesic dome beyond
Archival image: Laurent Bélanger. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

For Canada's centenary, Montreal staged a world's fair on an enlarged Île Sainte-Hélène and the new, man-made Île Notre-Dame, and counted about 55 million visits. It left Moshe Safdie's Habitat 67 housing and Buckminster Fuller's American dome, now the Biosphère. During the fair France's president, Charles de Gaulle, called out 'Vive le Québec libre!' from the City Hall balcony, emboldening Quebec separatists.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Biosphère, Île Sainte-HélèneFuller's geodesic dome, the former US pavilion, now an environment museum.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Habitat 67Stacked concrete housing units by Moshe Safdie, still lived in.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: Montreal City HallThe balcony from which de Gaulle made his 1967 speech.Map ↗

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