Posts Tagged ‘Expo’

How the West Lost

Author: Mike Ganley
Ottawa chose not to support Edmonton’s bid for Expo 2017 “because of fears the event would have provoked jealousies in Eastern Canada.”
Will Edmonton’s 2017 Expo bid help the city – and the province – mature? by Max Fawcett |  Illustration by Janice Kun At Expo 67 in Montreal, the world was introduced to a new Canada, one with its own flag, its own national anthem and a growing sense of its own identity. Fifty years later, the organizers [...]