ABBA arrived in Canada on Monday 10 September at 18:20 on Air Canada flight 216, for their North American & European Tour. They arrived in rain.  There were not many fans at the airport but lots of journalists. They were extremely tired. ABBA immediately took limousines to get to The Four Seasons Hotel in the city. Some fans were still standing outside hoping to get an autograph. 

Their press conference at the start of the tour was held in The Four Seasons Hotel at 20:00, after their first concert which was held in Northlands Coliseum (the Edmonton indoor Sports Arena). This press conference was attended by 160 photographers and journalists from all over the world. 

ABBA received Gold and Platinum records from their Canadian record company which was actually a whole wall filled with records. 

After the press conference ABBA and their team had a party.

Broadcast information:
Some snippets were shown on CBC News, Canada on Friday 14 September 1979
Other segments were shown on the current affairs programme Today from the Prairies on Thursday 20 September 1979, CBC, Canada
The whole interview on Måndagsbörsen on Monday 15 October 1979, 21:40, SVT, Sweden with Swedish subtitles.

Archive data from CBC’s archive:
TODAY FROM , TODAY FROM THE PRAIRIES
A round up of regional current affairs items repackaged and broadcast nationally. (A) John Robertson of CBC Winnipeg reports on the born again Christian movement in Winnipeg. He speaks with Anglican Church Arch Deacon David Crawley, United Church Reverend Barry Morris, psychiatrist Dr. John White, and several people involved in the movement. Footage includes a group of young men holding a prayer meeting in their home and shots from It's A New Day, a Winnipeg-based Christian show. (B) A report by Christopher Walmsley on Swedish rock group ABBA and their reasons from choosing Edmonton as the site for their first North American appearance. (C) Sue Johnston reports on the construction of the Calgary Zoo's new pre-historic park. (D) Drake McKew reports on the destruction of the sixty year old Marshall Wells Alberta Company Limited building in Edmonton. (E) A report on the first Canadian Pugwash Conference held in Saskatoon in the summer 1979. The conference focused on the danger of nuclear holocaust. Includes interviews with former Canadian Ambassador to the U.N. Dr. George Ignatieff, Research Director of the Canadian Institute of the International Affairs Professor John W. Holmes, University of Toronto Chemistry professor John C. Polyani, Executive Director of C.I.I.A. Jacques Rastoul, Foreign Service Officer Geoffrey Pearson, U.N. Ambassador William H. Baron, and the Canadian Pugwash Conference Chairman William Epstein. Includes footage of 1957 international meeting of scientists in Pugwash, N.S., Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein reading their manifesto against the use of scientific discoveries as weapons to a rally in 1955, footage of nuclear bombs exploding, P.M. Trudeau speaking at the U.N. on disarmament, brief comments by U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Andrey Gromyko, U.S.S.R. Also listed under the program number 75-2-3110-9014.
PROGRAM TITLE: TODAY FROM
EPISODE TITLE: TODAY FROM THE PRAIRIES
BROADCAST DATE: 1979-09-20
FORMAT: MAG Magazine shows
DATELINE: NTW
LENGTH: 01:00:00
HOLDING: D-164144
D-164144

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