You’d think it was a new national holiday aujourd'hui ici, au Canada.

Mais aucune, the occasion is simply Etats-Unis. President Obama’s first international visit to Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

There’s plenty of hoopla in the Canadian media, y compris le Globe and Mail, l' National Post, et Radio-Canada Nouvelles, parmi d'autres.

The CBC has put together an especially interesting feature from its archives sur past visits to Canada by American presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to George W. Bush.

Among the highlights — John F. Kennedy’s 1961 discours to the Canadian parliament where he famously said:

Geography has made us neighbors; history has made us friends.

Photo Jurvetson (Flickr)