JDP ECON




Montreal Expo 67
Quebec, Canada, 1967
Expo 67

World's Fair Decision Model

Top Ranked
WORLD'S FAIR IN HISTORY

PARTICIPATING NATIONS

Order of Precedence
Canada            12-11-62
Great Britain        29-01-63
Belgium            03-05-63
France            30-08-63
Morocco            16-12-63
Netherlands        04-02-64   
Austria            13-02-64   
FR of Germany    18-02-64
Venezuela        04-05-64
Israel            28-05-64
Iran            16-06-64
Sweden (Scandinavian Pavilion)    19-06-64
Finland (Scandinavian Pavilion)    19-06-64
Denmark (Scandinavian Pavilion)    19-06-64
United States        30-07-64  
Ceylon            15-08-64
Republic of China    25-08-64  
Jamaica            25-08-64
Monaco            01-09-64
Italy            16-09-64
Norway (Scandinavian Pavilion)  21-09-64
Iceland (Scandinavian Pavilion)   25-09-64
Czechoslovakia        02-11-64
Japan            04-11-64
Tunisia            25-11-64
Switzerland        09-12-64
Ghana (Africa Place)    24-12-64   
Trinidad & Tobago    21-01-65
Niger (Africa Place)    24-01-65
Ivory Coast (Africa Place)    24-01-65
Cameroon (Africa Place)  24-02-65
Barbados        01-03-65
Thailand        03-03-65   
U.S.S.R.        08-03-65
Chad (Africa Place)    09-03-65
India            11-03-65   
Ethiopia        19-03-65
Korea            27-04-65   
Haiti            10-05-65
Yugoslavia        13-05-65
Democratic Rep. of Congo (Africa Place)    03-06-65
Cuba            13-07-65
Guyana (Barbados & Guyana Pav.) 14-07-65
Australia        23-07-65
Tanzania (Africa Place)    26-08-65
Mauritius  02-09-65
Gabon (Africa Place)    03-09-65
Algeria            04-10-65   
Senegal (Africa Place)    04-10-65
Togo (Africa Place)    15-10-65
Mexico    18-10-65
United Arab Republic    21-10-65
Kuwait            21-10-65
Kenya (Africa Place)    03-12-65
Greece         01-02-66
Burma            14-03-66   
Madagascar (Africa Place)      30-03-66
Uganda (Africa Place)    14-04-66   
Grenada (Trinidad & Tobago & Grenada Pav.)   09-05-66
Rwanda (Africa Place)    06-10-66
Nigeria (Africa Place)    08-12-66

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Expo Tidbits


  • 17.6m cubic yards of fill used to create 297 acres of additional land around existing islands in the St. Lawrence River.
  • Expo-Express transit system carried 44 million people during exhibition.
  • There were 39 restaurants and 66 snack bars.
  • There were 800 employees in the Amusement Park.
  • Largest single day crowd of 530,000 on April 30.
  • 30 day transit strike in late Sept. halted city buses and new Metro system and is said to have caused loss of a potential 5 million in attedance.
  • Expo 67 innovations, introduction of passport ticket.
  • Canada's travel dollars reached a peak of $1.25 billion in 1967. 
  • Buckminster Fuller's gigantic geodesic dome structure that was the U.S. Pavilion, complete with a monorail running directly through it, was destroyed by fire on May 20, 1976.

Theme Pavilions, Plazas, and Sculptures
Theme Pavilions


Art Gallery, Dupont of Canada Auditorium, Man the Producer, Labrynth, Resources for Man, Man & His Health, Garden of Sculpture, Progress, Man in the Community, Man the Explorer, Man in Control, Photography & Individual Design Pavilion, Man and Life, Man the Provider, Man, his Planet & Space, Man and the Ocean, Man & the Polar Regions.


Plazas
 
Rapids Plaza, International Nickel Plaza, Esplanada, Africa Place, Theatre Plaza, Place de Nations, Asbestos Plaza, Plaza de las Americas, Engineers Plaza, Plaza of the Universe, Landing Plaza, Transportation Plaza.

Park Area
Habitat Park, Helene de Champlain Park, Parque del Retiro, Seaward Point, Notre Dame Park, Harbor Point, Rest Garden




Amusement Rides, La Ronde

Carrefour International, Children's World, Dancing Water (West.), Flume Ride, Garden of the Stars, Gyrotron, Lake Viewpoint, Laterna Magika, The Lighthouse, The Mall, The Moorings, Pioneerland/Fort Edmonton, The Rides Centre, Sky Ride, La Spirale, Timberland, Le Village, Youth Pavilion


Free On-Site Transportation

Transportation services included free transporation from parking areas to main access points and free mass-transit system connecting the four main areas of the site.  On-site bus service was run by Montreal Transportation system on rental basis, trailer trains/canal boats/hovercraft/helicopters were operated as concessions, and the three major facilities were designed, built and operated by the corporation.  (Expo Express, three minirail systems (2 from monorail purchased from the Lausanne National Exhbition of 1964, and new larger monorail for Ile Notre-Dame, and skyride)

Top Ten Restaurants (By Sales Volume)

  1. Bavarian Restaurant-Carrefour International
  2. USSR Pavilion Restaurant
  3. Canadian Pavilion Restaurant
  4. Czechoslovakia Pavilion Restaurant
  5. Canadian Brewer's Pavilion Restaurant
  6. West Germany Pavilion Restaurant
  7. St. Hubert BarBQ - Theme Pavilion
  8. Scandinavian Pavilion Restaurant
  9. Ontario Pavilion Restaurant
  10. Raphael 67 - Theme Pavilion

Pavilions That Impressed the Most

  1. Telephone 18%
  2. USSR 13%
  3. Czechoslovakia 9%
  4. United Kingdom 8%
  5. United States 8%
  6. Theme Pavilions. 8%
  7. France 6%
  8. Canada 6%.



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EXPOcheck Facts and Figures - Expo 2010 Sample

  • Average Case Scenario Estimate per WFDM - 50,577,000
  • Comparative History Node Estimate (Case 2, Kunming 1999) per WFDM -  89,729,000
  • Population Modifing Factor, Metro Region - 0.574