| Canada Canada Day : July 1, 1988
Agreement to participate : 23 January
1987
Commissioner-General - Mr Rick Hansen
Pavilion : 2800 square metres
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| Canada Canada Day : July 1, 1988
Agreement to participate : 23 January
1987
Commissioner-General - Mr Rick Hansen
Pavilion : 2800 square metres
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Canada, regarded as one of the 'top
five' international pavilions, had a multi-themed
presentation for visitors to the Expo, consisting of both
indoor and outdoor entertainment (for those in the queue!),
and was most particularly remembered for it's
multi-visual 600-seater 5-screen panorama experience "This is My
Home", where in the aptly titled "Celebration
Theater" guests were roused to nationalistic heights
over the stirring tunes of "O, Canada - this is My Home!".
The Theater was the brainchild of
Exposition artist extraordinaire 'Consulting Story Teller'
Paul Belserene - visit his web-site at:
You can listen to the theme song again
here (originally composed for the Canada Pavilion at
Vancouver's Expo '86) courtesy of the composer Bob
Buckley of Bob Buckley Productions: (look under
'Demos', then 'Anthems', then 'This is My Home').
Highly recommended!
http://www.bobbuckley.com
The second audio-visual was planned to
pack a few laughs and was entitled "Not Another
Government Movie", projected on a six-part
screen.
The "Fitness Arcade" summed up the
final part of the Pavilion, consisting of a series of
computer-aided machines that measured the strength of
your handshake, balance and power output.
The British
Columbia Pavilion (view hyperlinked listing) - also
another work by Paul Belserene &
Co., featured at the exit of the Pavilion.
Canadians at World Expo '88 were
also prominent at the United Nations Pavilion, where
Michael Conway Baker, O.B.C. (Order of British
Columbia), composed the music for the United Nations Pavilion at Vancouver
Expo '86, Brisbane World Expo '88, and also the music for
the Canada Pavilion at Taejon International Expo
'93 (South Korea).
Read about the composer and listen to
the music for the United Nations Pavilion,
Other news?
Commissioner-General Rick Hansen
also has his own web-site, entitled 'Rick Hansen: Man
in Motion', for the Rick Hansen Man in Motion
Foundation.
Visit the web-site at:
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  Works of art of Canadian ethnic
minorities featured at the entrance to the Canada Pavilion, with
this totem pole as an example.
American artist Jon Barlow Hudson's work
'Paradigm' and the City of Brisbane feature in the
background.
[TOP] Image courtesy of Damian McGreevy
[BELOW] Image courtesy of Graham John
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