Subject:Expo 70 Photo
From " Ed Chang "
: Ｔｏ： " Hiroshi Yamazaki Tokyo "
Dear Yamatan ,
Temperatures in Toronto have been hovering above 30 degrees C for several days , so my wife and I are staying indoors all the time except for the watering of plants after sunset .
This is the best time to browse through the December Club Home Page, and I have found so many interesting stories in the essays written by our classmates , commemorating the 30 th .40 th. 50 th. and now the 60 th..anniversaries . We have really come a long way , haven't we !
I noticed that you had inserted the picture of you and me taken in front of the Ontario
Government Pavilion at Expo70 in Osaka, with an Ontario Provincial Police(OPP) officer
standing near by. We were both young and quite good looking 32years ago.
I am attaching here another picture which you might find interesting to add in the same page or somewhere else. This is a group photo taken on the day the Prime Minister of Canada Mr.Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited our pavilion. I happened to have an unusual honor of sitting between a prime minister and a young hostess ( University of Toronto student ) ; a situation comparable to the famous Japanese proverb"Having flowers on both hands.
"両手に花” Ha,ha!
All the hostesses and hosts at the pavilion had been selected from 4th year students of
Canadian universities,and trained in Japanese language courses for 6 months . Most of them
today are holding senior positions as lawyers bankers and company executives in Canada .
The tall gray-haired gentleman on the left of Prime Minister Trudeau is General George
Kitching,Commissioner of Ontario Government Paviｌｉｏｎ（オンタリオ政府代表）. . I was working
only as his Deputy Commissioner（副代表）. . You must have met General Kitching when the December Club members were welcomed and hosted by him at the VIP room.
General Kitching was highly respected both in Canada and Holland because he was chief of
staff in the Canadian army, which was solely responsible for liberating Holland from German
occupation d uring the Second World Wa r, sacrificing 6,000 lives ,if my figures are
correct. . Even today I understand , Dutch school children are assigned by their teachers to look after the graves of those fallen Canadian soldiers to show their gratitude.
Every spring, Canada's capital city, Ottawa becomes a sea of tulip flowers sprouting from
the bulbs donated by the Dutch government. I t' s not easy to impress the Dutch people this m u c h .
Mr.Trudeau was born in Montreal in 1919, as you and I were ,and became Prime Minister of Canada before he was 50.He had studied at Harvard and at Sorbonne in Paris, and was
professor of economics before he joined the Liberal Party. He was a famous writer , a
high jump enthusiast, and a Judo black belt. His long tenure as prime minister lasted from
1968 to 1984
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