Why is/was the world's expo 1967 so important to Montreal, Canada?
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Being from Montreal but born in the seventies, I have not visited Expo 67, but I’ve heard a lot about it. Yes, my parents and their peers have always talked about this event with great pleasure and it does strike an emotional chord in them.
I would say there are three main reasons for this.
- The first one being the fact that it was a huge success, very much acclaimed. Maybe the sixties mindset helped in that matter but every critic had a good word for it.
- The second one lies in the fact that Montreal and Canada as well was little known to the world, constantly in the shadow of the USA in North America. The success of Expo 67 changed that.
- The third reason is somewhat related to the second one. The political climate in Quebec in the sixties happened to be turbulent with the rise of Quebec’s nationalism and the Quiet Revolution going on, French Canadians felt the were claiming their existence not only to English Canada, but to the world.
All this put together and you are starting to have a good explanation as why Expo 67 is still seen as a major event in the lives of the people who lived it.
This page has a really good analysis of the impact of Expo 67 : https://jsherlo3.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/understanding-the-meaning-and-impact-of-expo-67-a-lesson-in-context/
Wikipedia’s page about the Quiet Revolution : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution
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