PHOTOS: Expo 86 kicked off in Vancouver 36 years ago – Victoria News

Diana, late Princess of Wales, has a quiet chat with Vancouver-born rock star Bryan Adams Saturday night, May 5, 1986, at the Expo Theatre in Vancouver.

The fair, featured pavilions from 54 nations, including Italy, Cuba, Australia and Thailand.

Twenty years after Expo 86 changed Vancouver to a destination point on tourism maps, both proponents and critics are looking back.

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