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- Title
- Documenting and Remembering Expo 86 - Interview with Denis Bouvier and Don Richardson
- Contributor(s)
- Bouvier, Denis (Interviewee), Richardson, Don (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2016-09-08
- Language
- English
- Description
- Denis Bouvier attended Expo 67, an experience that inspired him to become a photojournalist. Years later, he was thrilled to apply his professional skills to documenting Expo 86. His memories of all aspects of the fair are still vivid.
- Extent
- 00:09:50
- Subject(s)
- Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Journalism, City planning, Urban renewal, B.C. Place, Buildings
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1980s
- Collection
- Expo Retro
- Title
- Expo Atmosphere - Interview with Manfred and Yuko Kraus
- Contributor(s)
- Kraus, Manfred (Interviewee), Kraus, Yuko (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2016-09-08
- Language
- English
- Description
- Yuko and Manfred Kraus both enjoyed the Expo experience, and lament the end of the tradition of World's Fairs. The Kraus' daughter, like many other young Vancouverites took her very first job at Expo 86.
- Extent
- 00:03:59
- Subject(s)
- Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Employment, Urban renewal
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1980s
- Collection
- Expo Retro
- Title
- Immersed in the Transformation of a City - Interview with Colette Parsons and Garry Eckford
- Contributor(s)
- Parsons, Collette (Interviewee), Eckford, Garray (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2016-09-08
- Language
- English
- Description
- Garry, employee of Vancouver's renowned architect Arthur Erikson, speaks of how Expo 86 changed the appearance and character of the city. Colette, an architect, returned to Vancouver for Expo 86 with her new credentials excited to see the face of Vancouver transformed by the fair.
- Extent
- 00:10:53
- Subject(s)
- Architects, Urban renewal, Seawall, Development, Architecture, Food
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1980s
- Collection
- Expo Retro