You’d think it was a new national holiday ここカナダでは今日.

しかし、ありません, the occasion is simply 米国. President Obama’s first international visit to Canada’s capital, オタワ.

There’s plenty of hoopla in the Canadian media, 含む Globe and Mailç´™, ザ 国民のポスト, と CBCニュース, 他の多くの間で.

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

Among the highlights — ジョン·F. Kennedy’s 1961 スピーチ to the Canadian parliament where he famously said:

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

Jurvetsonのフォト (Flickrの)