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Rare Books and Special Collections Expo 67 Collection
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Visitez Expo 67

Adaptation by the Réseau de l'information of a series of documentaries produced in 1967 under the title: Visites à l'Expo. Directors (1967 documentary): Marcel Laplante, Jean-Maurice Laporte. Director (adaptation for RDI): Manon Giguère. Host: Marie-Christine Trottier. Narration of the 1967 documentary: Andrée Champagne, Michel Pelland. Issued in slipcase.

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Expo 67 publications and maps

Series consists of maps, handouts, brochures, and guides published by Expo 67 and various partners. Includes tourist brochures and maps for Montreal and the region, informational pamphlets about Expo 67 and its attractions, and telephone directories. Series also includes file of event and exhibition catalogues.

Expo 67 Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 1234
  • Collection
  • 1963-1981, 1997

The collection consists of ephemera, artifacts, and publications related chiefly to the Expo 67 World Fair in Montreal and some documents relating to its continuation, Man and His World (Terre des Hommes), an exhibition that was the successor to Expo 67. Many of the records and artifacts were produced by participant countries and sponsors or by the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition. Ephemera includes postcards, visitor passports, and ticket stubs, while other textual documents include guidebooks, magazines, catalogues, books, clippings, information manuals, and some unpublished planning documents. Artifacts include license plates, vinyl records, letter opener, bottle caps, shopping bags, and pins. The collection features pamphlets and brochures for numerous pavilions, events, services, and countries featured, as well as many maps for the Expo 67 grounds and documents related to subsequent seasons of Man and His World.

Pavilion publications

Series consists of official country pavilion pamphlets, as well as other pavilion publications and ephemera, such as postcards. Also included are travel brochures produced by many of the participant countries. Pavilion pamphlets are included for the following countries or entities: Algeria, Australia (as well as Tasmanian Pavilion), Austria, Barbados and Guyana (also includes exhibition document), Britain (British Pavilion pamphlet and foldout), Canada (including Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion, Western Canadian Pavilion postcard, and Christian Pavilion pamphlet), Czechoslovakia (also includes Koospol "Smoked Meat and Sausages at their best" pamphlet), Ethiopia, France (1981), Iran, Ireland, Japan, Mexico (including one menu), Monaco, the Netherlands, Soviet Union (including Soviet Pavilion, the Soviet Character pamphlet, and book on Soviet humour), Switzerland, Tasmania, the United Nations, Vermont, and Yugoslavia. One file of publications from the Christian Pavilion contain items related to Roman Catholicism.

Pavilion publications were also produced by the participating countries in conjunction with pavilion pamphlets. These publications in this series represent the following countries:
Algeria (Algérie 67)
Australia ("The Australian Ballet," "L'Australie à l'Expo 67" and "Australian Panorama: Expo 67 Souvenir Edition")
Canada ("L'amitié franco-canadienne," "Habitat 67," "Indians of Canada Pavilion Expo 1967," and Canadian Government Pavilion publications: Canadian Fine Crafts; Theatre and Bandshell; Change comes to Canada; Architecture and Sculpture in Canada; Prints and Drawings; Widening Horizons; Children's Creative Centre; Paintings in Canada; My Home, My Native Land)
France (France Expo 67)
Germany ("Germany Today" and "L'Allemagne aujourd'hui" Expo 67)
India (India Expo 67)
Italy (Italia Expo 67)
Morocco ("Morocco," "Morocco: A Glimpse of History")
Trinidad and Tobago ("The Cultural Participation of Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada")
Tunisia: ("Tunisia en bref")
USSR ("Souvenirs from the Soviet Union")

Tourist and travel brochures exist for: Algeria, Uganda, U. A. R., Soviet Lithuania, Czechoslovakia (also with business development brochure), Greece (tourist map), and Finland.

There is also one pamphlet related to economic development produced by Gabon: "Gabon 67 The Cross-road of Economic Expansion."

Finnish, French pavilions

File includes chiefly pavilion publications and pamphlets for France ("Pavillon de la France" or "French Pavilion") for both Expo 67 and Man and His World (Terre des hommes). French Pavilion material also includes ephemera with a card, "Avec les compliments de la Ville de Paris," including one reproduction of an image of a Parisian street scene and two postcards with views of L'Ïle-de-la-cité and the Place de la Concorde, and three volumes of the Catalogue de la presse française, published the Pavillion de la France, section presse: Journaux et périodiques français 1, actualité - maison - vie familiale - mode; 3, lettres - arts - philosophie - religion; and 9, industries et techniques - architecture - travaux publics - bâtiment.
File also includes one brochure on Finland.

Handouts, 1

File includes Expo 67 Meditheatre brochure; Directory of New York State Hotels, Resorts, and Motels; Montreal Spring 67 Calendar of Events; Expo 67 Special Preview; Kaleidoscope Expo 67; Information Guide Notre-Dame Park; Dominion Bridge at Expo 67; Lodgexpo; Canada Pulp and Paper pamphlet; Welcome to Expo 67 brochure; This is the Hovercraft: the background to the world's newest means of transports; Man and His World 1975 brochure; Insight 67; 26 weeks at Expo 67; Expo 67 : Montreal, April 28-October 28, 1967 / Royal Bank.

Passports

File consists of nine red Expo 67 season passports, one with two exhibition visas laid in; accompanied by one loose 1970 Terre des Hommes visa. Includes one day pass for Terre des Hommes/Man and His World, and one laminated Terre des Hommes/Man and His World season passport, accompanied by blue passport holder. Also includes two adult Expo Bonus books and one Expo 67 pricing pamphlet.

Memorabilia and objects

Series consists of memorabilia and ephemera from Expo 67, including bottle caps, records, photograph albums, memorabilia produced for visitors and branded products such as beer mugs, soap, ashtrays, puzzles, postcards, coasters, glasses, and commemorative license plates. Tickets, tickets stubs, and Expo 67 visitor passports are also included in this series.

Miscellaneous

File consists of typescripts related to Expo 67 and records related to McGill's own Canadian centennial celebrations of 1967. Many of the typescripts are preview or planning documents, including write-ups of Expo 67 event planning and pavilions. There is also a list of participants and exhibitors compiled by the Department of Exhibitions, Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition, and two library lists for periodicals and accessions. There are also two volumes of "The Story of Man and His World", in English, volume 1: May 17-July 31, 1968, and an unnumbered volume for June 12-September 1969.

The Story of Man and his World

File contains two volumes of "The Story of Man and His World" in English. These volumes are informally published, staple-bound reports that contain events taking place at the Man and His World exhibition during the periods in question, as well as visitor statistics. Volume I covers May 17-July 31, 1969. A second unnumbered volume covers June 12-September 7, 1969. Volumes compiled by the Public Relations Department, Cité du Havre, Montreal. The following authors are credited for the second volume: Tevia Abrams, Catherine Danaher, Paul D. Shubin, Michel Alexandre, Jules Béliveau, and Nicole Mongeau.

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