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C18 - Wednesday, May 2, 1984 - North Shore News

EXPO ATTRACTS TOURISTS

IT MAY NOT look lke much yet — mounds of
earth pushed about by determined caterpillar trac-
tors — but Vancouver is gearing up for the biggest
international exposition since Montreal made
North America sit up and take notice with Expo 67.

As the City of Vancouver ap-
proaches 1986, its 100th bir-
thday, and the May 2 open-

ine oof the = five-and-a-half
month world extravaganza
that will be Expo 86, the now

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faint rumblings of activity
are destined to accelerate to a
roar.

Every week, a slew of an-
nouncements emanates from
“Exposition Central’’ in the
heart of the downtown core.

One day, the total number
of countries participating 1s
28, the next day the number

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nudges 30. The site has been
expanded, again, to 64 hec-
tares (165.5 acres) along
False Creek. Across town,
Canada Place, the Canadian
Pavilion of Expo 86, 1s rais-
ing its sail-like roof at Pier
B.C. on the shores of Bur-
rard Inlet.

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posiuon with transportauion
and communication as its
main themes, the ALRT,
Vancouver's new light rapid
transit system, continues on
apace, erecting upwards of
six 100 tonne (110 ton) con-
crete beams a day along its
22-kilometre (14-mile) line.

By opening day, May 2,
Expo 86 organizers hope to
tuck 40 countries, 10 Cana-
dian provinces and two ter-
ritories, nine American
states, 24 corporations and
four theme pasihons onto the
site, just blocks away trom
downtown

By closing day. October
13, over 16,000 live cultural
performances and an array ot
sports events of international
calibre will have been seen by
the multitudes. One hundred
restaurants, buffeterias and
tast food outlets in all wall
have served more than two
million hamburgers and 1
million soft drinks The gyro
tower and giant roller coaster
will grind toa halt tor the last
tume

Vancouver, a city of 12
million people as) titerally
transforming itselt

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Boom year predicted for 1986

cOuver altractions 1s expected
to draw JS milhon visitors
during the Exposition

Vancouver has had a
reputauon as a magnificent
but sleepy town. Expo 86's
international flavor ty already
working its magic to add a
cosmopolitan finish to the
country air.

There’s a bustle downtown
these days as the populace
nips into the kind otf
restaurants we all wished for
a few vears back Dining
Italian as) a tavorite, with
French cursime minceur close
behind Cozs cappucino bars
and tancy tood purveyors
nestle side-by-side with the
best retail shopping of British
Columbia

A century ago, Vancouver
was Tising trom the ashes, a
logging town with high hopes
but uw questionable future
after the Great Fire of 1X86
razed all but one building. By
1986, the city. wall provide
over PS.000 hotel unites for is
Ruests, with another 7 000
unAsts within Commuting
distance

Nine major aiflines and
two bus lines serve the city
while the BoC berry Cor
poration ples the coast All
of the 100-yvear-old city’s ser
Vices will be put to the test bs
Expo 86

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