Loyalist and post-loyalist immigration into Canada from the United States (from around 1783-1812) established and strengthened some of the earliest linkages between Canada and the US.
The term 'Loyalist' means an American colonist who remained loyal to the British Crown, many of which served alongside Britain in the American Revolution.
In June 2016, Canada hosted the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, and the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, in Ottawa, Ontario for the tenth North American Leaders' Summit (NALS).
The main priorities of this meeting were to discuss job creation, strengthening communities, and a focus on clean economic growth for North America.
After 19 years, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes the first official state visit to the United States as the leader of the country with the purpose of announcing new pledges of cooperation on climate change.
On March 10, 2016, Justin Trudeau and his wife Mrs. Sophia Grégoire met with U.S.
Between August 20th and 21st, 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper hosted a North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello, Quebec with U.S. President, George W.
The Third Option was a policy pronouncement by Mitchell Sharp in 1972, who was the Secretary of State for External Affairs Canada at the time, which proposed that Canada should begin strengthening its own economy and culture and reduce its dependence on United States.
At the time, there was great fear over Canada's economic future and lots of public discourse of Canada being absorbed into the United States' policies.
This address, made by former President John F. Kennedy, was made in Ottawa, on Parliament Hill, in May 1961 during his first trip outside the US as President.
This was an important symbolic salute to Canada where Kennedy famously describes the Canada-US relationship: "Geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners.
The Organization of American States (OAS) is the first multilateral organization of the Americas and its purpose is to promote economic, military, and cultural cooperation among members.
There are 34 active member states, of which Canada and the US are part, and 70 states and the European Union with observer status.
Canada initially declined the US offer (from President Dwight
This is the famous photograph and digital record of Eleanor Roosevelt's speech at the United Nations General Assembly on the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) in December 1948.
This is the official printed record of Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario on August 18, 1938.
On this day, President Roosevelt was receiving his honorary degree and famously declared the United States' support to the Dominion of Canada if any other empire attempts to threaten its security.