The Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967. The home pavilion featured an inverted pyramid structure (Katimavik) as well as the attraction here – a walk-through an attraction called the ‘People Tree’. This was composed of images on orange and red nylon fabric (tree leaves), the colours representing autumn leaf colours. At sixty feet in height, the People Tree consisted of a thousand ‘leaves’, with half of these bearing silk-screened photographic images of Canadians at work and play – a vintage 1960s photograph.
The Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1967. The home pavilion featured an inverted pyramid structure (Katimavik) as well as the attraction here – a walk-through an attraction called the ‘People Tree’. This was composed of images on orange and red nylon fabric (tree leaves), the colours representing autumn leaf colours. At sixty feet in height, the People Tree consisted of a thousand ‘leaves’, with half of these bearing silk-screened photographic images of Canadians at work and play. The tree was accessed via a spiral staircase. The architect Rod Robbie demanded that Canada's pavilion had to be the largest site at the fair (it was acres). The 1967 World Exposition (or World's Fair) or ‘Expo 67’ was situated on island site on the St Lawrence River. Its theme was ‘Man and his World’. The attraction lived on after 1967 during summer months and finally closed in 1981. This image is from an old amateur Kodak colour transparency taken by a visitor to the fair. It will look soft if used at too large a size – a vintage 1960s photograph.
Size: 3307px × 2199px
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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