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Display pavilions during the 2010 Winter Olympics
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During the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, several governments have chosen to create display pavilions to market their regions to international and other visitors, in the style of a World's Fair List Corporate pavilions * LiveCity Yaletown - Acer, Coca-Cola, Panasonic, Samsung * Canada Pavilion (the federal government of Canada) - located at LiveCity on Georgia and Beatty streets Canadian provinces and territories * Alberta House and Plaza - located on Robson and Beatty streets near BC Place, will hose business-to-business and cultural events * Canada's Northern House (shared between Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut) - located in a former Toronto Dominion Back West Hastings Street. * CentrePlace Manitoba - located at LiveCity Vancouver on Cambie and Georgia * Saskatchewan Pavilion - located at Concord Pacific Place on False Creek it features a 6-story "video dome" Others * Four Host First Nations Pavilion (the Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh) - showcasing First Nations culture. Located at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. * Place de la Francophonie - located on Granville Island, sponsored by the Fondation canadienne pour le dialogue des cultures (Canadian Foundation for Cross Cultural Dialogue) and the Fédération des francophones de la Colombie-Britannique (Francophone Federation of British Columbia), a free performance venue featuring French-speaking performers, a part of the cultural Olympiad See Also
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