You’d think it was a new national holiday oggi qui in Canada.

Ma nessuno, the occasion is simply Stati Uniti. President Obama’s first international visit to Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

There’s plenty of hoopla in the Canadian media, compresa la Globe and Mail, il National Post, e CBC News, tra molti altri.

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

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

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

Foto di Jurvetson (flickr)