Expo 67 has come down to us through the filter of nostalgia as a unique moment of national achievement. So successful was it that it appeared to change the way we Canadians thought about ourselves. We were not the boring, sober-sided backwater of a country we thought we were. Instead, the fair revealed us to be…
Daniel Francis
Daniel Francis is a writer and historian who lives in North Vancouver. He is author of two dozen books, most recently Selling Canada: Three Propaganda Campaigns that Shaped the Nation (Stanton, Atkins & Dosil, 2011), and a columnist for Geist magazine.
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O Captain, My Captain
Under the shadows of Cook and Napoleon, Vancouver was a victim of bad timing July–August 2008
In 1992 my wife and I decided to conduct a personal commemoration of the bicentennial of Captain George Vancouver’s monumental survey of the British Columbia coastline. I had expected the province to be awash with celebrations that summer, but it turned out that the bicentenary slipped by almost unnoticed. Not by the Francis family though. Loading our two children into the…