Expo 67 and Its Impacts

Expo 67 was named Man and His World after the book Terre des Hommes, written by French explorer Antoine de St-Exupery. Expo67 showcased humanity in all its diversity, allowing visitors to tour the ‘world’ and get their ‘passport’ stamped at every place they visited. Touring the Expo 67 world would allow “any number of geo-political, ethnic, or religious differences and conflicts to be reduced to insignificance, thus ‘seducing the visitor into concluding that the earth belonged collectively to humankind, to ‘Man’.” The guiding value of unity through diversity that helped to make Expo 67 a success is still relevant today. It was adopted by Canadians as a guidepost and has continued to shape Canada for the past 50 years. These values have led to the building of a strong multicultural country where honouring diversity and celebrating differences is the best road to unity, both within Canada and the world.