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Get your camera ready, the exciting Confederation Carar,An is ,coming our
way! It will be stopping at, Agriculture park Goderich, Jae 11, and will be
•• open for inspection,from 11 am, to 11.pm. The Caravan will provide you and
your family with a thrilling stroll through Canada.'s history. To preserve
this once - in -a -lifetime adventure, remember to bringyour camera, color
film and. plenty of flash bulbs. You'll . be able to photograph.Such unique
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exhibits as this one with° tiny 'figures of the Fathers of° Confederation
surrounded by the builders of Canada — trappers, Indians and settlers of
ny:ny callings. By all means, include members' of your family in pictures
like these, but here's a tip: for best results, tell them to look at the exhibit
rather than at the camera. Good shooting!
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THE GODERICH SIGNAL STAR. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1967
Caravan Here
". The Confederation Caravan
opens its one -day exhibit in God.
4 erich June llthvbringing to Can.
adians the story of the nation end
her people in a way it's never
been told before. ,
You'll know the caravan's com. •
ing when you hear its, mighty
claxon blaring out the first four
notes of "0 C.:arias:la" as- the eight
giant tractor -trailers roll, thr.
ough town to the exhibit site early
in the morning.
Because of its, size, it wil ben,
ccompanied by a police escort
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on its Way to the site. There,
the drivers will arrange the col-
orful trailers in a quadrangle,
set up the mobile regional exhi.
bits, entrance gangways and
bridges between trailers -and the
show is ready to "open.
From 11 a.m. until 11 p.m.
daily, visitors can experience the
developme.nt Of.Canada from pri.
meval times to the present.
It's not a museum or an art
gallery or a history lesson. It's
more like a time machine trip
to Visit the people of all walks
of life who lived and vw,orked,
laughed. and wept in. Canada be-
fore we.caine along.
This major Centennial Comm-
ission project took almost four
years- to produce from idea to ,
fact.
Writers laid down broad story
lines. Then some of Canada's
top artists, sculptors and crafts.'
men of many kinds brought them
to life under the direction of the
Canadian Governrnent Exhibition*
Commission.. '
-Eight identical caravans were
Sunday
produced to criss-cross the na- '
tion while the similar Confeder-
ation Train crosses from vest
to east, generally stopping at'
the larger centres -of -population.
Visitors to the show and the
.trailers — the biggest ever made
ie, Canada -- arranged in a. quad.
• rangle, with an entertainment
stage near the entrance and tow.
ering, triadetie displays inside the
formation.
The triadetics tell in sound and
light and photo the development.
of this'region of Canada. Several
of them have cranks so the vis.
itor can activate miniature shows
himself.
But the main show is inside
flit.' seven exhibit trailers. (the
'eighth provides. storage for the
triadetics.) , •
The. tales are told with still
and movie 'pictures,
mannequins that move, intricate'
rn iniature figures and scenes, re. ,
productions of full-size rooms
..and oedoor settings as well as
hundred § of artifacts.:
You experience life as it was
Confedeoration Caravan 'visitor tweaks the,
moustache of life -like mannequin, a -city slicker
crouching on a gold -rush river bank, panning
for his fortune. fps finger stirs the silt and
lived in th,e ffidian villages, a
tailor shop of towia Canada,
the go7d rush days, the Roaring
Twenties, and the Great Depres-
sion:, ••
•You see the Mingktasesand
fine silks the explorers were.
seeking When they found Canada
by mistake; tiny sculptured 'ft&
ures of the Fathers of Corded.
eration, a rifle and gas mask of
one war and bomb. fragments of
another, a stock ticker rattling.
through the '29 crash.
And the sounds of other time.s,
are all 'around you — •the Charit
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gold flecks in the ,pan, Ihis head nodding. Mud'
and miner's tools are strewn around him with
the stream babbling gently behind. -
of the voyageurs probing the heart
of a continent, the garrulous
laughter of a tavern of Upper
Canada, the puffing and clatter
o a Prairl&-bound steam engine,.
the shriek of bomb and shell in
war.
Many visitors signing the guest
book after touring the Confeder-
ation Caravan feel they know a
little more about the people who
passed this way before us.
Under manager j. ErrolJordan,
this caravan travels 1,555 miles
through. Ontario west of Toronto
and Orillia, ending at Ess'ekNov.
ember 14.
It has the shorteSt route of all
the caravans but is open to the
public the inost number of days
— 170. It is closed on 28 staff
days off, generally on Mondays.
In addition' to the caravan in
• this area, the Confederation
Train ;exhibits in Londo'n June 8
to 15, Windsor June 16 to 23, _ •
Kitchener June 24 to 27, Ham.
ilton July 18 to 25, Niagara Falls
July 26 to 28 and Toronto July
29 to August 21.
Another caravan tours eastern
and Northern Ontario. •
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Rank and file Canadians in sculptured
. araund a ditc carrying' flipires of the Fa
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, plains, Iron floorplates at entrance jiggle as though the visitor sPCedehe occasional iron screech of laboring brakes. ,
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