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mm THECENTEN nisTt Visitors entering face a cavelike wall of prehistoric the Centennial symbol carved deeply The cave leads toward light that bright- and dims with the passage of time It comes from a backlit mural of the sea the land emerging from it Seagate wheel and cry and the waves qifctiy Perce Rock off the Coast where Beyond the seascape light pulsating wall niches draws the eyes to chunks re formed eons ago and waiting only man to use in making Canada one of worlds great mining nations DARK MAP GLOWS A dark map of North America glows as red shafts creep across the Bering t from Asia through Alaska and down the heart of the continent the route by the first men to reach the New arid the Indians and Eskimos A second map shows how they split up The Eskimos in the north the Haldas Iootkas and Salish on the Pacific coast Plains Indians Sioux Plains and the St Lawrence alley Iroquois Huron Erie Cherokee and Si Nations which included the Mohawk Cayuga Seneca and and the Northeast Woodland Indians Micmacs Cree and Cavewall drawings depict native art forms of the Eskimo stone of the Eastern tribes lie side of a grain box bears inlike figures a of a Plains In dian deerskin teepee carries drawings ex- tolling the artists exploits an Iroquois war shield is made of hide stretched on wood CHANTING BRAVES Light comes from two broad apertures the wall and you look through into mini ature settlements of the and North- cast Woodland Indians Braves chant and dogs bark The white mans exploration era begins with the goods from the Orient they were seeking when they found North America The masts of an exploration ship creak as you look at blue and white china of the Ming dynasty resting on silkcovered kegs and straw hampers against the wooden ribs and belaying pin of a sailing ship The cave walls have given way to walls simulating a river bed The bright blue ceiling is the surface of the water and through it protrudes the bottom of a birch- bark canoe is the sound of the voyagcurs chant MAPS A scries of eight illuminated maps in floor recesses gets progressively more accur ate through the exploration age The coastal outline of North America is Beyond the tavern photos of buildings before Canadas new governor ar- recognizable in the first by Portu- and outdoor scenes show different eras and rived La Costa in cultures from coastal fishing shanties to They revolted in and executed an A French map of shows the St Lawr- inland log houses sedate mansions to Orangeman River Newfoundland Labrador and per camps A photo of a soldier with a the Strait of Belle Isle Samuel renowned map federation The stage is set with vertical executed panoramas revolving slowly the harvests The North West Mounted Police born in of land and sea travel by mail coach skiff because of the Rebellion and to and river steamer bring order to the West are represented by battles are there in Rank and Canadians in sculptured figures revolve slowly around a disc carrying figures of the Fathers of Confederation Sculpture was done by Sylvia of Montreal and Milan especially for the Confederation Caravans and Train The red plush scats arc boardstiff the insignia familiar gear to the 7000 Cans carpeting flowered the light fixtures brass who sailed beyond the equator to three terms between and and Bennett IS the woodwork dark mahogany The steam engine puffs and pants in the distance and now and then brakes squeal of 1632 sums op aU that was known then Identifying Labrador la Newfoundland tribes Hot- ens La Nation Lake Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes without Lake Erie French map of gives recognizable shape to the Great Lakes but PANORAMAS symbolizes the defeat of the Rebels They As you leave the coach the train noises Pressures from without usher in Con- tried again in but failed was fade to be replaced by the murmur of a photo and poster Wolfe and Montcalm on the plains of Abraham as the British take Quebec in the futile attempt years also shows a massive and nonexistent later by US Generals Benedict Arnold and lake near the west coast Richard Montgomery to capture Quebec Another map of shows New Sir Isaac Brock killed repulsing the Araeri- before Acadia Canada and Cape Breton were ceded to Britain a scarlet tunic en a figure AMMUNITION The ammunition belt carries 50calibre bullets for pistol and 577 for Snyder rifle Behind is a photo of early members of the force You pass between montages of the rail- section of golden wheat sways under enlarged photos showing some- of the hun dreds of thousands of immigrants who poured westward In the nineties and to World War I Drawn by free land grants spread Hes a city slicker seeking his fortune in across the virgin Prairies from Eastern the Yukon gold rush His sluice drips mud Canada from Britain from the United and more is splattered on his picks and States and from continental shovel bowler hat striped shirt red vest Europe Bavarians Russians and gold watch chain Even his fingernails Austrians mountain A fullsize figure crouches on the bank stirring mud and flecks of gold in a pan now and then glancing up at yonv CITY SLICKER fight on foreign soil in Behind a ROARING large photo of them heading into battle In Another abrupt division between eras South Africa awaits beyond the beaded curtain leading out Beyond that Boer War a Prairie of the Roaring Twenties a stock ticker and pagewide newspaper headlines out the crash of The good times vanish the Great De pression covers A skill bleaching on the dead Prairie soil A the British Columbia jutting down into Oregon and Quebec are dirty cans at Heights in French waybuilding period pictures of surveyors The Centennial symbol collects a new Canadian militiamen and British regulars trestles tracks engines construction boss color turquoise for Prince Edward Island ArrowsmiuYs British map of shows hurling back the Americans at Chateauguay William Van Home financier Donald Smith in vast Hudsons Bay Co holdings and in the Fenian raids into the Maritimes later Lord Strathcona driving the last Photos show the first six Prime Ministers spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway on Sir John A MacDonald Nov 7- at Craigellaehle BC Alexander Mackenzie Sir John A wooden ramp between tracks above Abbott Sir John Thompson way to the swaying steel Sir Mackenzie and Sir plates joining two railway coaches and you Charles Tupper before the parallel became the A Canadian railroad map of marks Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces the Northwest Territories as part of Canada and the stretching coast to coast The final map is actually an aerial photo of Canadas land acquisition the manmade He in the St Lawr ence River the site of Expo 67 LAVISHLY Heaped lavishly on a trappers wooden sled is the wealth the explorers found pells of ermine squirrel raccoon fox A movie screen brings the shouting and tumult of battle alive a HMS Shannon captures the US frigate Chesapeake off Boston Harbor The pace slows and the noise subsides as you approach the Confederation Chamber between waits lined with photos and paint ings of the Confederation conferences and Quebec City in 18M and in London to draft the British North America Act in The chamber itself is the lighting subdued on its crimson walls and royal blue carpet Four wall plaques honor the original bear mink Above a beaver pelt lies taut four provinces joining Confederation a stretching board Spilling from a bee Ontario Nova Scotia and New treasure chest are the goods the Indians wick wanted for their furs mirrors beads But your attention goes immediately to knives axeheads crimson a spotlighted podium Stark wooden ribs support a crucifix representing the missionaries who poured in confederation from the old World seeking a harvest of sculptured miniature figures human souls of the Fathers of Confederation white around Etched on a waU are the routes and toe lived here in names of early explorers Cartier Cham- farmer trapper In- plain La Salle Joliet Marquette LaVerend- housewife at market and child at play enter an sleeping car One berth is An Short Enfield riflo is the prop made up for a cork sun helmet with bronze maple leaf rye Hudson Vancouver A message scrawled on a rock as it still is on the Pacific coast says Alex from Canada by land 22nd July 1739- Navigational instruments complete the exploration era a crossstaff used to mcas- V In an antechamber hang the crests of the provinces that joined later The first Prime Minister Sir John A stands silhouetted against an engraving of the Parliament buildings live Centennial symbol appears with only four of its triangles filled in purple for Quebec the altitude of the sun Champiams Ontario blue for Nova Scotia and astrolabe a sextant and a binnacle green for New Brunswick CIVILIZATION of the rest of Canada begin The early trappings of civilization be- Canadas come apparent as you walk into a Quebec rritory and after purchasing Use tailor shop of the early with its polish- vast of the Bay Co pine floor elaborate dresser travellers Memorabilia about the railroad era ln- chest rich laces brocades cIu a letter from Sir John A and velvets and flickering iron lantern to a Montreal friend pointing but the The sound of horses hooves bells and s railroad to the west coast because- shouting draw you through a door to the United States government Is resolved road and the next century do anything short of war to get the West- WaU pesters cajole men to right territory Yankee in the War of promising a RAILROAD four guineas oa a land grant at On his promise of railroad British the end Columbia threwiin in a A advertising the Kings Head after Manitoba The Centennial Inn beckons you off the street and into the W grows with an orange triangle for ManiV raucous gaiety of an Upper Canada tavern too brown for BC fireplace and lanterns flickering warmly photos snow brilliant sporting gun and powder horn over Riel and his halfbreed Metis fearful about Photos show idle men perched on top of railway boxcars going to anywhere but here or lining up for soupkitchen handouts A crudelylettered sign says No Men Wanted A photo shows the angry a development by government employed in turmoil trying to organize botanist Charles Saunders gave them the hunger march from Vancouver to Ottawa weapon to extend Canadas granary far- Newspaper headlines again mark- the flier and farther north Marquis wheat sharp division between era- The depression which matures In only days vanishes as guns flare anew fit Europe soon to be joined by war in the Pacific SYMBOL THUNDER The Centennial symbol sprouts a yellow World War Hs fleets of saturation bomb- triangle for Alberta and gold for era thunder overhead in photos in The Prime is A 500pound bomb Is poised to join others Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Robert whining down on a distant city represented Borden 191120 takes the leaders mantle by art aerial photo In the floor and soon the guns of August change the All around are photos of the bomb dam- world and Canada forever the war on land and sea the house- Immigration stops expansion stops and wives in the munitions factories all boys march off to fight the war to end framed by jagged bomb fragments all wars A huge photograph of a Toronto the drone of the planes are streetcar turned into a recruiting station wall of ilreni and the cramp of looks almost gay exploding Its decorated with flags and The war oyer me Centennial symbol officers drum up bnsIaeM In front and a sign gains another color deep blue for saysj Tree Trip To Step Aboird y land Id Louis St Laurent takes charge But the gaiety vanishes along with the of the country followed by John chivalry of earlier wars when you brush and Lester Pear- past a grey and gritty army blanket used as a door and find yourself in a World War I Immigration and industrial expansion trench Mud is everywhere bring Canada from the war to today through the duckboard flooring slice of pipeline for the Western oil smears the clips and rounds of ammunition boom forms an archway to the present the empty mess kits and bullybeef tins the Pictures of oil storage tanks and a refin- mask and rifle even the rusty cor- cover the of the arch iron thereof CATWALK The floor becomes a catwalk over a blue I GRIMY TRENCH pool Fuel pipes rise from an atomic reactor And the sound of war almost shakes the In die insulation of a heavywater grimy trench Shells shriek closer and The exhibit represents the atomic power closer drowning out the rifle and machine- plant it Chalk River and Canadas role is gunfire the worlds chief supplier of uranium Above From waist to ceiling the walls are piled wfehU Canadas space satellite to with sandbags and through rifle apertures late this year you catch glimpses of desolate No Mans a of hexagonal photographs Land under toe intermittent flare of distant stretches along one wall showing today scenes color stretches of Prairie wheat the mills and machines of industry white- coated scientists and researchers at work ballet dancers and artists faces flash by we diplomats athletes j gun and exploding From the of war ye step Into the and of the Twenties Honkytonk music Wares from a vic- chandeliers rotate reflecting blinking on and off advertisements for and Jackie Amiture Canada helping other nations Coogan mufflers is Illustrated by pictures of Canadian drug A coat hangs on one rae supplies ready wall and a potted palm stands in a wicker overseas Colombo plan volunteers a basket dian serviceman on UN olernB fc sys Bock arnlliar wndroark beeswax candles oak set weir future after Canada bought the plains to general own of nhlpborne dramatic presentation of and plates a copy of from the Hudsons Bay Co in to spread land and at the entrance to the Confederation Caravan the light oat at their re Photos of tocVUera the leaders sir Frederick Banting sod Dr Best of tomorrow are While young is a vial that alive world Centennial Prime Masters take the stage last thing Ken tm