Canada '67; 2

This is Canada 67 a weekly roundup of highlights from Expo 67 and other events celebrating the Canadian Centennial. First to expo where Tuesday was the National Day of Belgium. John Ramsey sends this report over how the ladies love the Belgian pavilion four here at Expo. It's the only one to catch their eyes with a display of unmounted diamonds from the smallest cut diamond in the world to one. Well it looks the size of a large marble and sitting in the midst of all that glitters is a diamond cutter who works by the hour grinding and polishing the jewels that when a lady's heart. It's undoubtedly the most popular spot in the pavilion. That though not striking in its design has that comfortable feeling of home. Designed with the expo visitor in mind it has no right angles so that pedestrian traffic is on hampered the dull red brick that was brought from Belgium glow softly from the indirect light cast by trumpet like fixtures illuminating rare old tapestries paintings and other art treasures that have been brought to the new world.

The fact that the 1958 World's Fair was held in Brussels is brought to the attention of everyone here through a modern glass map that depicts other important milestones the Belgians have passed in their travel down the road of history. There is a Hall of Fame on ring 54 Belgians who have done much in the past to serve the cause of progress and humanity in the arts sciences and civilization. In addition to the diamond industry the pavilion devotes a section of its precious space to show Expo visitors what is being accomplished by a nation that depends to a great extent on an industrial economy. The chemical oil and metal industries are all represented here not in a spectacular way but with the care and precision that makes an exhibit interesting to study. There are certainly larger pavilions on the expo site and there are pavilions that dazzle the visitor with space exhibits and spectacular motion picture techniques but none I think captures the warmth of a country and its people like the Belgian

pavilion at Expo. This is John Ramsey reporting from Expo 67 after a full day of wandering around the expo grounds the thing you probably want to do most in the evening is sit down while if you're looking for entertainment at the same time the World Festival of Performing Arts which is running concurrently with the exhibition offers a wide choice. Here's Ken Murphy with more on this aspect of Expo. One of the curious things about the World Festival is the rather limited participation of the United States. Curious considering that country's proximity to Canada its prosperity and the enormous international popularity of so many of its performers. It is far less active in the world festival and friends for example are great. Nevertheless during the first week of the festival performers from the United States made a fine showing indeed a spectacular one at the inaugural concert it was the choir from Rutgers University which joined the Montreal symphony in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth then two nights later the Broadway production of Hello Dolly opened at the expo theatre on the export side while at the same time

downtown the Los Angeles Philharmonic with pianist Van Cliburn gave the first symphony concert of the World Festival. Next night the Los Angeles orchestra joined forces with the Montreal symphony to present a concert of works by barely knows under speakie. Critics who admitted they went to that concert prepared to blast this kind of musical sensationalism returned to their typewriters to confess that the 200 piece orchestra seemed a suitable vehicle for the performance of the works chosen. The conductor by the way was Zubin Mehta who has been commuting between Montreal and Los Angeles for some years as musical director of both orchestras. A concert of a very different kind was given the next night by another American orchestra. The buffalo thought a monic under Lukas Foss with soprano Bethany Beardsley and pianist Charles Rosen as soloists. The Montreal Star critic said that this concert was without question the most adventurous in the world festival so far but added that the choice of music by Bach Berg Weber's and Ravel was quote certainly

not designed to appeal to the people who buy funny hats and candy floss at Expo. Well the World Festival organizers haven't overlooked the people who buy funny hats and candy floss at Expo and whatever criticisms may be made of these organizers cultural snobbery isn't one of them. The festival includes the Royal Ballet of Covent Garden but it also includes Jack Benny. It includes the Bolshoi opera but it also includes a Canadian review whose main attraction is naked girls. It includes theatre companies performing in Greek Italian French or Hebrew but it also includes the Great Western Rodale. In fact it is one of these lighter items the musical Hello Dolly which has been the rage of the first two weeks of the World Festival under a government champion's direction. Carol Channing and the Broadway cast managed to make this rather mediocre piece come across as if it really were a masterpiece in the great tradition of the American musical. As one Toronto Critic put it this production is a triumph of Broadway know how as tall glittering and airborne as that Expo dome.

By that Expo dome he meant of course the U.S. pavilion the most imposing structure on the expo sites to my mind and one which will keep every Expo visitor aware of the U.S. presence here even during those long periods when the Americans drop out of the picture completely and expose World Festival of the performing arts. Ken Murphy in Montreal after the disappointments of the New York World's Fair many people thought that visitors might be difficult to attract to Expo. And no doubt newspaperman came to Montreal looking for familiar Fanning's. But whether that's true or not they don't seem to have found him. John Ramsey's been looking through some newspapers and magazines foreign and Canadian press reaction to Expo 67 has been surprisingly good. In fact a good deal better than had been expected by those who have followed the construction of the fair. We are a traditionally conservative lot in Canada and there's always a feeling here that things are not done as well as they should be and we generally

look to the outside for either condemnation or whole hearted approval. This time Canadians were elated to discover that foreign newspapers television and radio talked of Expo in glowing terms. Even our national press outside the province of Quebec gave full marks to Expo the staid New York Times the newspaper that takes notice of Canada only when something of extreme importance happens here obviously thinks that Expo falls into this category. It lauded the noncommercial aspect of the Fair and said it would be hard for most American cities to grasp why Canada is operating this mammoth exhibition at a loss. The Soviet newspaper is Vesty a paid special attention to the fact that Canada had less than the normal amount of time in which to develop a thousand acre site. Yet despite many difficulties with the weather managed to open Expo on time in London the Illustrated News had some good words about Montreal as energetic mayor Zhang's REPL the man responsible for getting the fare for this city and who once he

did promised and delivered a subway and a network of throughways so that tourists would not be traffic weary long before they got to Expo. Le moaned a Paris newspaper thought the fare looked particularly lovely at night and concluded that Expo would mark a date in the history of world exhibitions. The Toronto Star the paper with the largest circulation in Canada was more concerned with the architecture to be seen here. Robert Fulford their correspondent said it is perhaps the most remarkable cluster of buildings in modern times and went on to say that the art exhibit is unequalled in quality in the history of the Western Hemisphere. All high praise from newspapers who influence their readers to a great degree and welcomed by those who worked feverishly to put together the first international exhibition of this magnitude on the North American continent Expo is billed as Canada's largest centennial project and it's obviously the one that's getting the most publicized. There are plenty of other things going on this year across the country at the small town of

Brownsburg. Go back for instance a firearms museum has been opened to mock the occasion Brownsburg held a black powder shoot shelterless went along and thus no one pounder is everywhere today here on the site of one of the original black powder companies that eventually became Canadian industries limited. CIO has turned one of the old brick houses into a gun museum 9 go and color into the opening will be handling what it hopes to be the first of an annual Black out of competition from other loading weapons. Today several My dears are practicing and I'm standing just slightly downwind where I can get away from Goddard and I'll go where I hope that I'll be offered a chance to fire one of the lovely only went on you know behind me is the music. In and 1898 originally built to house supervisors at the Dominion cottage company's factory but the round BRIGGS I think is older than that. The databank to 18 18 when the first sporting rifles were made in Canada. I just had a tour of the museum guided by Mr. Lester moralists the ILB and a

recognized authority on old gun lez. I must confess that in the museum my friend by the number of guns that you collected how much of the history of firearms is represented by the collection. Well basically there are about 400 individual pieces in the museum John. They range pretty well. They earliest type what I would normally describe as a cake walk through with a lock snap went live percussion right up to modern weapons most of these I would say are in they. 18 hundred period. A COVER OF COURSE rifles shotguns and pistols of the collection we have a smallish number of fossils of any of the mostly we have rifles which were of course the most popular sporting arm in this country. I remember the during the tour you mentioned that you had not been able to obtain weapons of the French regime or at least you found very few of them. Well this is one of the strange sayings of all of the name collectors I mention this whenever you chat with them. It's very difficult to find a weapon from the French prayer

the reason why there are several reasons given the one that seems to be the most plausible is that they are French inhabitants use the guns they had. When they went on the farms and that and they use them over a long period of time until they were simply worn out and by the time they quit using them they just weren't worth keeping they simply threw them away it seems the only explanation because there are very very few are left from the French regime in this country. Do you have any in the museum. We have to and we are certainly anxious to get more if we can. Thanks Les I'll just add that among the historic weapons to be seen here is the following piece belonging to Mr George Brown the founder of Brown's very good 1818 and more modern weapons of some great Canadian shooters for instance the Ross rifle used by Sergeant Frank Harris at Bisley in 1912 and another 3 0 3 that was used by Jim Boyle in the twenties to win the king's medal at Bisley. Its weapon was also used by his son Gilmore 30 years later to win the coveted medal so young lovers of Montreal Expos on your

centennial visiting program add Brownsburg to the list. This is gunshots. Supporting the old. Firm. If you're wondering why cows have to do with a black powder chute the answer is nothing. The only connection is that somewhere else in Canada the moving sound signifies yet another centennial project St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Toronto is sending a small herd of cattle to a village in Uganda. The village of Ganga. And when Dick Barrowman interviewed the rector Canon RJ purred you. I'm John Kano the young African who's going with her to Uganda. The cows were waiting in a paddock in the church parking lot can produce. Why did you choose to send the cattle over as they are. Couldn't you just sort of said well we'll send you X number of pounds of powdered milk over the next 15 years or something

for the same amount of money. Yes there is a possibility of course I would have been easy in the very cheap way of doing it. I would supply the need at the present time. But this plan appealed to us all because it will go on forever. For that matter even a generation or two generations will know people will have herds of cattle in Uganda. Which in fact came from little parish in a faraway place called the tobaco in Ontario. John you are I understand seeing that the cows get where they're going from this super to to have a young going you two is you were born as you have been brought up. It has about 50 people and medical you get on these village comes from Kenya is imported and is very expensive. So when I heard of these see Centennial projects docent Matthews I thought of

that. What a hydra. I said I'll pray has to have this see tremendous gift of cause from which we shall get milk. You're on your way back to Uganda now you've finished your two years here in Canada training at how do you feel as you're leaving. Well I feel very bad for needing to reach out you kind of go with people in Canada here in the warehouse. Been treated the way I have been taught to the college and the menu. I understand that the gift which has been given to my village that has been given to the whole we're grand because Uganda would benefit from these cattle and we shall be having this connection between Canada and Uganda. And that's kind of the 67 for this week produced by the international service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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