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v fe ft I 5 i v Star from the dark fear of a World War I trench under bombard ment Confederation Caravan visitor slip through a beaded curtain into the garish light and frantie pace of the Roaring Twenties and try out some dance steps to the hits of years ago from a victrola Quiz Where did the first people In Canada IT What medical scientists made what Ira- come from portent medical discovery during the When did Jacques land In What Roaring Twenties now called Canada What followed the stock market crash Where did he first land of What were the first traders who came Who was Prime of Canada North America looking for ing the South African Name two early Instruments of navl- I World War What Is la what year did the battle of the Plains dllllWS flg of Abraham take place opuaoew j In what war were the soldiers promised uienjM four guineas and a land grant JS What British jutted Into Oregon ooissajdaa ailL before the boundary was established at Ontario The roasroads of Canada snaps to lilt in moving mechanical contrap tions cartoons and words in the towering displays set up outside the Confederation Caravan The arranged Inside the quad rangle formed by the eight trailers are pyrarakJshaped structures of tuning joining together brilliant red and orange triangles of fibre glass and clear plastic Photographs of Ontarios people and ac tivities ire printed on the fibre glass by the same method the RCHP use in fingerprint ing inside the structures are the hustle and mobility of Canadas most populous prov ince si men spring into action and miniature machines clatter and clank Here la mala street the Freeway far two father of Confederation MILES Its 510 miles of concrete from Windsor to the Quebec border are changing the pat terns of population of living of commerce for onethird of Canada people Try the game Grab the bandies Get the ball over the Photographs recall what passed for roads here in the days when the Freeway wasnt even a dream the old log corduroy road a morass In spring and fall and an axle- breaker in summer the plank road smooth and modern in the Gay Nineties but doomed to die with the cheap trees that made it possible And the cars are the Ike Brooks steamer Gait Petrole tec trie todays sports cars sipping around the racetrack FLYING MACHINE Cartoons rotated by a handle recount the tale of another inventor Sarah Terwilliger and her flying machine When Sarahs religious sect announced the world would end prepared to fly to the next world with a pair of silken wings She stood poised for flight on her bal cony and the world DID end for Sarah Her foot slipped her wings failed and she plunged to her death Other cartoons highwire cross ing Niagara Falls gilder biplanes bi cycles with wings Visitors can crank a handle setting in motion a machine that transports goods to market by railway truck boat car and production Canadian Display and Exhibit Co Ltd of Dogs yelp and Indians chant as the visitor to the a miniature encampment of Plains Indiana on a Prairie Confederation Caravan peers through a glowing slit into river bank It Took Three Years To Produce Planning and production of the Confed eration Caravan displays took about and a half years The Centennial Commission conceived the idea of the caravans and the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission a branch of the Department of Trade and Commerce was appointed to supervise that he Is crossing byways of history rather than following a straight line designers have not fried to create a travelling museum nor have they tried to i the parallel In which two cities did the Fathers of JO Confederation meet to draw op their si MRU rami am iitu plans in Name the first four provinces Con federation It What land transaction In ISO enabled Canada to spread from sea to sea Who was the financier who drove the last spike of the Where did this happen and when ji What rebellion was one of the causes of the birth of the North West Where did Canadian soldiers go to fight a war What scientific development by a gov ernment botanist helped the Prairie farmer IS- What wa the boUnlCs name pmia wh I 8BJO PJOT ifuuis it 0 am assquna won won uMojairBio 8 jo 6SH 9 oq ajassad E V5JsTaH plane Another machine la all bobbing heads and hats of consumers nurses farmers miners welders lumberjacks housewives Theres a photograph of Toronto Harbors 143foot giant Atlas crane North Americas largest capable of lifting up to tons AUSTERE The austere facade of the Toronto Stock Exchange the largest centre for the buying and selling of corporate securities In Canada is pictured beside photographs of the frantic trading operations on the exchange floor Other figures read newspapers watch television communicate by telephone While thousands of Canadians from the other nine provinces flock to Stratford for the Stratford Festival each summer students from Ontarios mobile community travel to the Other provinces particularly Quebec Rotating postcards express the feelings of these students involved In the student exchange Toronto was the major contractor The trac tortrailers themselves were built by At Industries Ltd of Calgary PRODUCTION CHIEF Chief of production for CGEC was Ivan Herbert a Canadianborn film maker who Joined CGEC two and a half years ago The Confederallon Train and Caravans project was his first assignment Tom Spsukllng of Toronto was design co ordinator and Peter Englishbora graduate the Ontario College of Art waa the designer exterior graphics on the huge trailers were done by John Arnold of the and Mr Arnold and Peter Vincent a bo of created the triadetie structures erected outside at each stop Figures In the handoperated machines of the were designed by Mr Arnold and Mr Vincent and were made by Yvonne DIceman of Ottawa While the caravans touch on the same MACHINES subject matter as the Confederation Train translate a history textbook by their db- the design Is handled quite differently plays The caravans on site will be parked In- Rather they have tried to involve the a quadrangle so that the visitor will feel visitor in Canadas history i v i mm m I l l l mm J l 1 J if IBBBBBJ lift if- 1 1 I ssal bawl L i 5tIi II a a r am d tf a- fe t T U Story Outside The exteriors of the eight tractor- trailers of the Confederation Cara van have their own story to tell As the caravan takes Its story of Canadas past and present across the country people en route are able to catch a preview of the exhibits inside Hie graphic designs were conceived by John Arnold of the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission producers of the caravans for the Centennial Commission The word Cauda Is emblazoned in letters an taw aide trailers and the ward CeadederaUaai the eighth Tne graphic sides which face the trailers are BRIGHT The first trailer in bright yellows and oranges depicts the ships which first fefiS travelled our waterways a Viking ship with fullblown sails British French frigates eastcoast fishing vessels and an Indian war canoe The next trailer shows the leaves of Can- rowan tree birch maple western white pine maple oak elm and west- hemlock using deep forest green and paler leaf green On the third in and dark shades of an flsai Urgemouth bass great pace grey treat Bad Rust and sand colors are used on trailer four to illustrate early Canadian agricul tural impternents a gram binder Confederation Caravan visitor the moustache of lifelike man- a slicker crouching on a goldrush river bank panning for fortune His finger stirs the silt and gold flecks in the pan his head nodding Mud and miners tools are around him with the stream babbling gently behind A are Is The rmsttic gaiety of the Resiling Twenties comes to a jarring halt as newspapers and a chattering ticker tape aboard the Confederation Cara van tell of the 29 crash soon to be followed by the Great Depression One of highlights of the Confederation Caravans is also the heart of the historical displays A sculpture in bronze treated to a pale green reminiscent of the roofs of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa waa created for Confederation Train and Caravans by Sylvia a Montreal artist iiow studying in Milan Italy She was the winner of a competition held by the Canadian Government Exhibition vator hay raka and plough RED A panorama of Canadian activity and complishmenta appears on the fifth in pur ples and reds Silver Dart the Ural airplane of the British Empire to take to the air children wading in ocean waters a cowboy hockey players skiers a highway a towering Darkpanelled railway coach on the Confederation Caravan is of a kiwi apartment block that carried thousands of immigrants to the Western plains Iron floor- On the next a bluegreen i trailer a Cock plates at entrance jiggle as though the visitor is walking between two of Canada geese are la flight coaches The ear picks up the yclack of wheel on track the fast Trailer sevens dark and light blues show I Commission producers of the train and caravans for the Centennial Commission Lefkavitss original sculpture Is Ihe Chamber of train exact replicas are to each of the eight In the centre of the sculpture is a I lionary platform on which stand frockcoated figures the 38 Fathers of Con- V federation CIRCULAR I Around the circular platform another rotates slowly at a lower level KBaflal all 186701967 On It are figures of the of Canada Wiled when the British North America Act came into force July farmers busi- IT women children kilted Scots from he hunters and trappers from he northern woods of Quebec and Ontario m World War II brings the heartstopping thunder of the saturation the whine of wind through the fins of a bomb aimed which Is carpeted in rich blue and walled i in are the bronze crests of Canadas rV