Expo 86 Exposed Vancouver’s Secrets – Vancouver Real Estate Market

by Maggie Chandler on May 9, 2011

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If you want to get an idea of how much Vancouver has changed in the last quarter-century, drive north across the Granville Bridge. Look to your right, and you’ll see a forest of highrises — none of which were there 25 years ago.

The biggest single catalyst for the dramatic change in the city was Expo 86, a small transportation exhibition that morphed into a billion-dollar world’s fair attended by 22 million people.

Vancouver had been one of the world’s great secrets. But Expo 86 let the secret out.

The old Vancouver punk music promoter, Bud Luxford, has a saying: “We invited the world, and they didn’t go home.”

Which brings a big laugh from former B.C. Premier Mike Harcourt, who was mayor of Vancouver during the fair.

via vancouversun.com

So much going on in the world these past 2 weeks we missed the 25th anniversary of Expo’86 which opened in May 1986. Vancouver invited the world!

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Gerardo Perez May 9, 2011 at 3:17 pm: Indeed Vancouver is a great city. I really enjoyed my visit a few years ago. The people in this beautiful city enhances the beauty and the atmosphere of the place.

At the other end of this great country, we find another fantastic and evolvimg cosmopolitan center. Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) from easte to west Canada is a beautiful country and from Toronto we cheer and hope Vancouver brings the Stanley Cup to us this year. Cheers!
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