This Guestbook is for those who were VOLUNTEERS or WORKED on the EXPO 86 site, your comments are appreciated.
Please Add your comments to this guestbook - subject line - EXPO VOLUNTEER GUESTBOOK - Giving - name, email address, general location of where you are from, which pavilion you were with or project you worked on and your experience of it all.

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LeeAnn Kostyniuk Coquitlam.British Columbia lkostyniuk@hotmail.com May 6, 2006 12:03:36 AM PDT	I worked at the Canada Pavilion. Daycleaaner I truly had a blast at the Expo 20th Anniversary Reunion Party. It was so nice seeing some of the People I worked with for those 6 months. Expo was not only a special time for the Provience of B.C., but for all who worked it as well. It was a time of great pride for a job well done, and pride in our great provience as well. It is something I will never forget. Hearing the song’s and the dignitaries speeches was like I stepped back in time to that wonderful summer of 1986. Thank’s to all who worked so hard to put the party on for us. Thanks for all your work on this awesome site. It is so great remembering thing’s you forgot until you saw the photo’s and video clips.
Linda and Breezy Dunlop White Rock, British Columbia dunlop3@shaw.ca May 2, 2006 6:32:44 AM PDT	Roundhouse Volunteer My Father, John Dyck, worked as a volunteer at the ROUNDHOUSE. He was 69 years old. Now, if my math is right, he's 89! Dad lives in White Rock so it's too far for him to come at night. As his dignitaries! his daughter and grandaughter are coming tonight to represent him and to take videos so he will be able to relive EXPO 86 from his armchair! Dad has a plaque from Jimmy Pattison thanking him for the work he did. The plaque hangs up in Dad's front room where he shows it off to everyone who visits. No, He wouldn't lend it to us to bring to the reunion! Thanks so much for pulling this together.
Ken Porterfield British Columbia kenp@telus.net Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:02 PM	Allan, I will be going to the reunion party. I am 76 years old so look for white hair. I will be wearing the G.M.sweater and G.M. cap because I worked for G.M. I would like to talk to you about what I can share with you. I have a great collection of Expo lapel pins and some other items including most of videos that were available. I will be happy to share things with you. Regards Ken Porterfield
Dietlind Bratengeyer British Columbia brtngyr@shaw.ca Apr 21, 2006, at 10:01 PM, PDT	Allan, I presume you will have most of the published stuff. I worked with Expo in the administration before Expo opened, so my perspective is different from that of a visitor. I mostly remember the struggle to get the show on the road (i.e. I have a copy of a letter that complained about the slow pace at the Vancouver airport customs and excise office and suggested: "As a solution, so visitors would have everlasting good impressions, I suggest we utilize our unparalleled marine engineering expertise to tow the entire Expo Site to Sea Island and declare the area a duty free zone. This would at least enable visitors to enjoy Expo whilst waiting clearance into B.C." Oh yes, everybody had an opinion then! And it was no fun going to work and dreading every morning the headlines of The Province, shredding the projected Expo to pieces every chance they got. I don't know whether Mr. Pattison ever read the letter of encouragement from a seventeen year old kid from Chase, B.C., written after Mr. Pattison got publicly pelted with egg. The young fellow expressed his admiration for the calm way with which Mr. P. dealt with this insult (and mess). And he promised Mr. P. his vote, should he ever want to get into politics. Talk about groundswell support! Well, it is all "water down the river" now! Regards, Dee
Leona Vancouver, B.C. onlythenonie@hotmail.com Apr 8, 2006, at 4:27 PM PDT	Thanks for the site!! I worked at the Bavarian Gardens at Expo 86 and had a wonderful time! Would love to reconnect with friends.
Grace Harpe Vancouver, B.C. graceharpe@yahoo.ca April 6, 2006 9:05:49 AM PDT	It was my first volunteer job in Canada. I was fortunate enough to see the whole Expo Site for free because I was volunteering every weekend. I have tons of memorabilias, passport of every pavilion and pictures to prove that I was a part of the Expo 86.
Jane Wyndlow janerulo@telus.net Feb 6, 2006, at 11:30 PM Fashion Optics Expo 86	What a great site!! I worked at Expo 86 in the Red Zone and this is an awsome way to take a walk back in time. It is amazing what you forget. I was 18 and my brother and 2 cousins all worked at Expo. My brother worked in Grounds in the Yellow Zone and my cousins worked in the Saudia Arabia Pavillion and the BC Discovery Pavillion. What a great time it was!! All those people! All the colour, all the memories!!!! An experience never to be forgotten!! Thanks for the painstaking effort of making such a beautiful walk in the past!!!