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Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation fonds With digital objects
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Building a Soddie

A large group of men, women and children are gathered around and on top of a large sod building [school?] with plank roof and glass windows. A pile of lumber in the foreground suggests recent construction.

Expo 1967 - Western Canada Pavilion

Cedar shingles cover the entire exterior of this unusually shaped pavilion with huge fir trees rising out of the top of the structure. The interior is arranged in a walk-through series of display cells designed to recreate sights, sounds and scents characteristic of the Canadian West.

Expo 1967 - Automotive Stadium

A 25,000 seat arena, it is sponsored by five of Canada's automobile manufacturers at a cost of $3.3 million. Events to be held in the Automotive Stadium during the 1967 World Exhibition in Montreal include: an international soccer tournament, a Europe vs. the Americas track and field meet, military tattoos, horse pageants and spectacular variety shows. The Stadium surface is 535 feet long by 212 feet wide surrounded by a quarter mile rubberized asphalt track.

Expo 1967 - "Man in the Community" Pavilion

Gracefully rising interlacing wooden beams is structural feature of Man in the Community pavilion at Expo 67. Designed by Vancouver architects Massey-Erickson, the pavilion will contain exhibits probing the uniquely modern effects upon man of growing urbanization and exploding populations.

Expo 1967 - Mini-Rail

The Mini-rail will make up part of the secondary transportation system on the Expo 67 site. It's a single, elevated rail vehicle with open cars each carrying 12 persons. It is a mono-rail system in miniature.

Expo 1967 - Katimavik Building

The Katimavik (Eskimo word for 'meeting place'), a huge inverted pyramid, is the focal point of the Canadian pavilion at the 1967 World Exhibition. The Canadian exhibit, built on 21 acres of the largely man-made Ile Notre Dame, is the largest pavilion, national or private. The Canadian government commenced construction on June 18, 1965.

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