You’d think it was a new national holiday hoje aqui no Canadá.

Mas nenhum, the occasion is simply EUA. President Obama’s first international visit to Canada’s capital, Ottawa.

There’s plenty of hoopla in the Canadian media, incluindo o Globe and Mail, o National Post, e CBC News, entre muitos outros.

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

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

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

Foto por Jurvetson (Flickr)