Expo 67: Bringing The World To Us
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Clockwise from top left: Expo's symbol, representing people with outstretched arms; Expo 67 and some of its architecture; aerial view of Île Notre-Dame and Île Ste-Hélène; Habitat '67; an elevated train--the Monorail--travels past the U.S. pavilion in the summer of '67; Expo 67 Commissioner Pierre Dupuy.
Deirdre McIlwraith was 24, a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and fluent in French and Spanish when she landed a job as a protocol officer with the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition, the organization that planned, built and ran Expo 67 in Montreal.
McIlwraith worked at the Restauran...