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Workmen were bustling around Expo site today, getting everything in readiness for official opening this afternoon and streams of ordinary visitors exp(...)
Workmen were bustling around Expo site today, getting everything in readiness for official opening this afternoon and streams of ordinary visitors exp(...)

Workmen were bustling around Expo site today, getting everything in readiness for official opening this afternoon and streams of ordinary visitors exp(...)

Date4/27/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Workmen were bustling around Expo site today; getting everything in readiness for official opening this afternoon and streams of ordinary visitors expected to pour through gates tomorrow. In view above; miniral makes test run out from under Ontario pavilion and over Regatta Lake; part of Ile Notre-Dame; island built in past four years. Canadian pavilion at right is largest single exhibit.
Country:Canada
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0004374F
It's fun getting around Expo, and there are nine ways to do it
It's fun getting around Expo, and there are nine ways to do it
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Impressed by expo 67 where he and a City Council party are touring today, Mayor William Dennison wants a Toronto minirail joining the Canadian Nationa(...)
Impressed by expo 67 where he and a City Council party are touring today, Mayor William Dennison wants a Toronto minirail joining the Canadian Nationa(...)
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Expo's mini-rail that trapped some 100 persons during inaugural run
Expo's mini-rail that trapped some 100 persons during inaugural run
4/14/1967
Gondola of centuries-old design floats serenely beneath ultramodern minirail, contrast in Expo transportation
Gondola of centuries-old design floats serenely beneath ultramodern minirail, contrast in Expo transportation
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Centennial - Expo - Minirail
Centennial - Expo - Minirail
4/29/1967
Having its difficulties
Having its difficulties
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Enter William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto's spanking new $600,000 fireboat triumphantly enters harbor today jetting streams of water to the wail of sirens and blare of fog horns
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5/15/1964
Finishing touches are put on the Brampton GO station from the official opening of service to Toronto tomorrow and regular service on Monday. Three tra(...)
Finishing touches are put on the Brampton GO station from the official opening of service to Toronto tomorrow and regular service on Monday. Three tra(...)
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Hollywood visitors: Actor Roddy MacDowell and movie director Norman Jewison were among big-name guests at yesterday afternoon's Variety Club luncheon in the Royal York Hotel
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Russian visitors had to hold a separate remembrance service this afternoon (apparently they were denxied permission to rake part in the llam service). They laid a wreath to the Canadian dead
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