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Jean Drapeau
Gave the city a metro, a world's fair and an Olympic debt that took thirty years to pay.
Life story
- February 18, 1916 · Montreal
Born in Montreal - October 1954 · Montreal
Elected mayor on an anti-corruption platform - October 14, 1966 · Montreal
Opened the Montreal Metro - April 27, 1967 · Montreal
Opened Expo 67, the most successful world's fair of its era - July 17, 1976 · Montreal
Opened the Summer Olympics, whose debt was paid off only in 2006 - August 12, 1999 · Montreal
Died in Montreal