Vancouver International Festival

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL was a summer festival of music, THEATRE and film launched in 1958 as part of the provincial centennial celebrations. The Queen Elizabeth Theatre opened in 1959 partly to house the festival, which brought a wide range of international talent to VANCOUVER. "Nothing of the kind on this continent surpasses it in scope and objectives, and it has drawn world attention," wrote Alan Morley, a journalist, in 1969—the same year that the festival was discontinued for...

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