The Canadian and provincial pavilions at Expo 67 — the main celebration of Canada ’ s centennial year — showcased modern architecture . More than 50 million visitors and 62 nations attended the World ’ s Fair , held in Montreal from April to October 1967 .
• a professional engineer to provide inspection services and trouble-shooting assistance with the various construction contracts ( Terry Kelly );
• a senior supervising technician who was also involved in supervising Moshe Safdie ’ s Habitat 67 project ( Graham Lancaster ); and
• an experienced official to help with negotiating and drafting consultant contracts ( Jim Stevenson ).
Terry Kelly recalls just one of the contracts involved :
How about contracting for a million square yards of sod ? This had to be planted two years before the opening of Expo , so the contract had to be awarded soon , in 1965 , I think it was .
The contractor from Toronto that got the job had previously worked with DCL … so they went up north of Montreal and rented over a million square yards of field and got in there and planted sod . The second year , they were able to take some off and actually do landscaping , so that gave the sod a year to get established before the opening of Expo .
There were , of course , some areas that couldn ’ t be done right away and they planned on doing them in the spring of 1967 . But the winter of 66 – 67 was extremely harsh , and they had a lot of winter kill in the fields , so they had to truck sod from Toronto to Montreal to get the stuff down before we opened the gates .
Between 1963 and 1967 , DCL support for Expo included :
• 712 contracts coordinated , for a total value of $ 140 million ;
• 2,671 change orders coordinated , for a total value of $ 26 million . This involved screening more than 10,000 temporary dockets with $ 34 million in debit change orders and $ 8 million in credit change orders ;
• 226 Treasury Board and Privy Council submissions prepared and analyzed ; and
• 40 reports submitted to Treasury Board covering contracts awarded under the authority of pre-approved Orders in Council .
BREAKING NEW GROUND DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION CANADA
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