it upset many regulars and tourists.<\/a><\/p>\nBarriault wanted his documentary to present the history of the complex and also highlight some of the personal memories visitors to Crystal Palace made over the years. <\/p>\n
Jean-Marc Boudreau, one of the 20 people Barriault interviewed for the film, said he remembers every trip to Crystal Palace feeling like the best day of his life as a kid.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can very vividly remember going as a kid with my cousin and we’d go on the train 40 times in a row,\u201d said Boudreau.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen fast-forward to working there as a teenager and you see the same thing, like you see kids riding the train 40 times in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Crystal Palace opened in February 1990. In 2014, Cadillac Fairview Corp. announced its closure. (CBC)<\/p>\n
For Barriault \u2014 who grew up in Moncton \u2014 Crystal Palace brings back fond memories of birthday parties, weekend visits or March Break excursions to the theme park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Simpler times when I had no worries’<\/p>\n
Those memories also resurfaced for him during a difficult time in his life.<\/p>\n
After attending his first filmmaking class at the Toronto Film School in January, he got sick and spent five weeks in and out of the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He had to have surgery for complications related to pneumonia and then doctors found a cancerous tumour in his lung.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings just kind of felt like they were spiraling out of control in a way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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The original Crystal Palace included rides, games, a science centre, a gift shop, restaurants and a hotel. (CBC)<\/p>\n
From there, Barriault had to drop out of film school and move back to Moncton in preparation for a bigger surgery to remove half of his lung and the tumour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you’re in the hospital and when time is standing still, you always reminisce on, you know, your childhood, and one of the big things for me was thinking about Crystal Palace,” Barriault said. <\/p>\n
“Those simpler times when I had no worries and I was just a kid.”<\/p>\n
In July, when his health was in a more stable place, telling the story of Crystal Palace through film started to become more real.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Barriault’s film, See You at the Palace, debuts on Wednesday and dives into the world of the now closed amusement park, Crystal Palace. (Submitted by Park Barriault)<\/p>\n
He put some calls out on Facebook and Reddit to see if people would be interested in participating and the response was overwhelming.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt made that much of an impact on their lives, whether they worked there or went there or worked in the cinema or worked in the gift shop,\u201d said Barriault.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the film ready to go, Barriault will show it to the public on Nov. 20 and 21 at Tree\u2019s Tees, a vintage clothing store, in Moncton.<\/p>\n
Then, he plans to do an online release on his YouTube channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t want it to be something that’s held from people,\u201d said Barriault. \u201cIf you went there, you should be able to see it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should be able to relive that nostalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-290925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Parker Barriault moved to Toronto in January 2025 for film school, but quickly ended up in the hospital with health complications. During that time he started thinking about his childhood memories of Crystal Palace \u2014 the subject of his new documentary. (Parker Barriault)<\/p>\n