Editing Expo 67 (section)

===Expo ends===
[[File:Montréal Expo 67 Site Map.png|thumb|Site map of Expo 67, highlighting 20 of the 90 pavilions]]

Expo 67 closed on Sunday afternoon, October 29, 1967. The fair had been scheduled to close two days earlier, however a two-day extension granted by the [[Bureau International des Expositions]] (BIE) allowed it to continue over the weekend. On the final day 221,554 visitors added to the more than 50 million (54,991,806<ref name="expo-67.ca">{{Cite web |url=https://expo-67.ca/en/the-film/ |title=The Film}}</ref>) that attended Expo 67 at a time when Canada's population was only 20 million, setting a per-capita record for World Exhibition attendance that still stands.<ref name="BIE">{{cite web |title=Exhibitions Information (1931–2005) |work=Previous Exhibitions |publisher=[[Bureau International des Expositions]] |url=http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=-92&m2=140 |access-date=June 4, 2007 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203740/http://www.bie-paris.org/main/index.php?p=-92&m2=140 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Starting at 2:00&nbsp;p.m., Expo Commissioner General Pierre Dupuy officiated over the medal ceremony, in which participating nations and organizations received gold and silver medallions, and over the ceremony in which national flags were lowered in the reverse order to which they had been raised, with Canada's flag lowered first and [[Nigeria]]'s lowered last.<ref name="Jackman" /> After Prime Minister Pearson doused the Expo flame, Governor General [[Roland Michener]] closed Expo at Place des Nations with the mournful spontaneous farewell: "It is with great regret that I declare that the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967 has come to an official end."<ref name="Jackman" /> All rides and the [[minirail]] were shut down by 3:50&nbsp;p.m., and the Expo grounds closed at 4:00&nbsp;p.m., with the last [[Montreal Expo Express|Expo Express train]] leaving for ''Place d'Accueil'' at that time.<ref name="Jackman" />  A fireworks display, that went on for an hour, was Expo's concluding event.<ref name="Jackman" />

Expo performed better financially than expected.  Expo was intended to have a deficit, shared between the federal, provincial and municipal levels of government.  Significantly better-than-expected attendance revenue reduced the debt to well below the original estimates.  The final financial statistics, in 1967 Canadian dollars, were: revenues of $221,239,872, costs of $431,904,683, and a deficit of $210,664,811.<ref name="BIE" />