Editing Expo 67 (section)

===Expo opens===
{{Main|Expo 67 opening week}}
Official opening ceremonies were held on Thursday afternoon, April 27, 1967.<ref name="Back to the Future">{{cite video |title=Expo 67: Back to the Future... |medium=DVD Video |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |location=[[Toronto]] |url=http://www.cbc.ca/canadianexperience/expo67/ |date=2004}}</ref> The ceremonies were an invitation-only event, held at Place des Nations.<ref name=Opening>{{cite news |title=Only 24 Hours Remain for Expo Opening |newspaper=The Toronto Daily Star |date=April 26, 1967 |author=Canadian Press |location=Toronto |page=48}}</ref> Canada's [[Governor General]], [[Roland Michener]], proclaimed the exhibition open after the Expo flame was ignited by Prime Minister Pearson.<ref name="Pearson Opens Fair">{{cite news |last=Waltz |first=Jay |title=Pearson Lights Expo 67's Flame, And a 'Monument to Man' Is Opened; FAIR'S INAUGURAL ATTENDED BY 7,000 Fireworks and Church Bells Mark Island Ceremonies for World Exhibition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/04/28/archives/pearson-lights-expo-67s-flame-and-a-monument-to-man-is-opened-fairs.html |access-date=April 26, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 28, 1967 |location=New York |page=1}}</ref> On hand were over 7,000 media and invited guests including 53 heads of state.<ref name="Pearson Opens Fair" /> Over 1,000 reporters covered the event, broadcast in [[NTSC#Technical details|NTSC]] Colour, live via satellite, to a worldwide audience of over 700 million viewers and listeners.{{refn|group="Note"|During the original 1967 CBC broadcast, reporter [[Lloyd Robertson]] mentioned the estimated audience numbers on air.<ref name="Back to the Future" />}}

Expo 67 opened to the public on the morning of Friday, April 28, 1967, with a [[space age]]-style countdown.<ref name=Countdown>{{cite news |title=The Little Guy Takes Over Expo – 120,000 Of Them |newspaper=The Toronto Daily Star |date=April 28, 1967 |author=Expo Bureau |location=Toronto |page=1}}</ref> A capacity crowd at Place d'Accueil participated in the atomic clock-controlled countdown that ended when the exhibition opened precisely at 9:30&nbsp;a.m. EST.<ref name=Countdown /> An estimated crowd of between 310,000 and 335,000 visitors showed up for opening day, as opposed to the expected crowd of 200,000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Computer Muffs: Busy Weekend Seen for Montreal's Fair |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fg8zAAAAIBAJ&dq=expo%2067%20opening&pg=1943%2C3629387 |access-date=April 26, 2012 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=April 29, 1967 |author=American Press |location=Spokane, Washington |page=2}}</ref> The first person through the Expo gates at ''Place d'Accueil'' was Al Carter, a 41-year-old jazz drummer from [[Chicago]], who was recognized for his accomplishment by Expo 67's director of operations Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien.<ref name="Al Carter first">{{cite news |title=310,00 On Expo's First Day |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PUQ_AAAAIBAJ&pg=5501%2C541738 |access-date=April 26, 2012 |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=April 29, 1967 |author=Canadian Press |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=1}}</ref> Beaubien presented Carter with a gold watch for his feat.<ref>Berton, pp. 272–273</ref>

[[File:Ed Sullivan-Supremes-The Happening.jpg|thumb|[[The Supremes]] (L to R: [[Florence Ballard]], [[Mary Wilson (singer)|Mary Wilson]], and [[Diana Ross]]) performing "[[The Happening (song)|The Happening]]", broadcast live from Expo 67 on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' on Sunday, May 7, 1967]]

On opening day, there was considerable comment on the uniform of the hostesses from the UK Pavilion.<ref>Berton, p. 272</ref> The dresses had been designed to the then-new [[miniskirt]] style, popularized a year earlier by [[Mary Quant]].<ref name="Gazette Miniskirt">{{cite news |title=Oh Those Uniforms: From Lamé to Miniskirt |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Tu4tAAAAIBAJ&pg=7160%2C6974114 |access-date=April 25, 2012 |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |date=April 28, 1967 |location=Montreal |page=B-19}}</ref>
[[File:Elizabeth II and Lester B. Pearson at Expo 67 (3626383).jpg|thumb|Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and Prime Minister [[Lester B. Pearson]] on the minirail at Expo 67, July 3, 1967.]]
In conjunction with the opening of Expo 67, the Canadian [[Canada Post|Post Office Department]] issued a 5¢ stamp commemorating the fair, designed by Harvey Thomas Prosser.<ref>{{cite web |title=Expo 67 |url=http://data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=(artist.A790,C790.)+Or+(null.B742.)&l=50&d=STMP&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/02011702_e.html&r=15&f=G&Sect1=STMP |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130101032603/http://data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=(artist.A790,C790.)+Or+(null.B742.)&l=50&d=STMP&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/02011702_e.html&r=15&f=G&Sect1=STMP |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 1, 2013 |work=Canadian Postal Archives Database |publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]] |access-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref>