• JAPAN — Leaflet “Satisfaction questionnaire on the Kabuki play”

    Open the document Leaflet distributed during a Kabuki performance at Expo 67, serving as a satisfaction questionnaire. It aims to gather audience feedback on various aspects of the show, including staging, costumes, and narration. Participants had the chance to win a Japanese doll in a prize draw.

  • KUWAIT — Flyer “Kuweit Shipping Company”

    Open the document Although not very interesting in terms of content, this is one of the very few paper testimonials distributed at the Kuwait Pavilion. In protest at Canada’s attitude to the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors (the Six-Day War), the Kuwait Pavilion closes its doors at the end of May and leaves…

  • GERMANY — Receipt “Berlin Restaurant—German Pavilion”

    Open the document This receipt from the German Pavilion restaurant, under the direction of Georg Reiss, embodies a precious souvenir of Expo’s culinary effervescence. The establishment was an iconic destination at Expo 67, offering an authentic experience of German cuisine. Following this success, Reiss opened the restaurant “Le Vieux-Munich” in October 1969 at the corner…

  • USSR — Diploma “Почетная Грамота (Pochotnaya gramota)”

    Open the document A rather exceptional piece, this is a merit diploma for a worker on the Soviet Pavilion, comrade Aleksandr Semyonovitch Arkharov. Unfortunately, we do not know his exact role on the pavilion. Here is the translation: Diploma of honor. Comrade Aleksandr Semyonovich ARKHAROV. Is awarded for the successful work of the Soviet section…

  • FRANCE — Booklet “French Caribbean”

    Open the document Tourist promotion booklet for the French West Indies. “Columbus discovered Guadeloupe on November 4, 1493. He named it after a monastery in Spain, keeping a promise he had made to Spanish monks. Over the centuries, control of the island changed hands many times, but it finally became a department of France in…

  • I. KALIN — Book “Expo 67 : Building Materials Systems and Techniques”

    Open the document Survey of Building Materials, Systems and Techniques used at the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967. Montreal, Canada. “The publication is, in this respect, an extension of the Exhibition. It informs the researcher, the builder and those interested in art of processes and methods which determined forms and conditioned functions. It simultaneously…

  • UNITED STATES — Philately “Souvenir Cover, The Canadian Pavilion”

    Open the document Philatelic envelope of the “First Day of Issue”. It includes the stamp issued by Canada Post for Expo 67. It is stamped by the postal service of the American Pavilion. The American stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation is also stamped with the words “First Day of Issue”. The…

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