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King George VI visited the United States from June 7 to 11, 1939, including Washington on June 8 and 9. Prime Minister Mackenzie King was in ministerial attendance during the Washington visit.
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Photo: FDR Presidential Library & Museum · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an official visit to the United States on March 10, 2016.
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Photo: Pete Souza · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On April 12 and 13, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended the Nuclear Security Summit in the United States.
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Photo: Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India · Photo licence: GODL-India · Credit & context
On November 14 and 15, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper attended the G-20 Economic Summit Meeting in the United States.
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Photo: White House photo by Grant Miller · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On a working visit on September 9, 2002, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien discussed the Iraq crisis with President George W. Bush in Detroit, Michigan.
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Photo: Not identified. Part of White House Photo Essay. · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From April 23 to 25, 1999, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien attended NATO’s 50th Anniversary Summit in the United States.
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Photo: DoD photo by R. D. Ward · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On November 19 and 20, 1993, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien attended the APEC meeting in Seattle.
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Photo: Ralph Alswang · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made an official visit to the United States from March 17 to 20, 1986.
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Photo: White House Television Office (Reagan Administration) · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau made an official visit to the United States on March 24 and 25, 1969.
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Photo: United Press International · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
On a visit to the United States on January 16 and 17, 1961, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker signed the Treaty on Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin.
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Photo: White House Photo Office · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From November 10 to 15, 1945, Prime Minister Mackenzie King took part in informal discussions in the United States on the international control of atomic energy.
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Photo: Attributed to Harris & Ewing · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s guest from March 5 to 11, 1937. He then continued his U.S. visit in Virginia Beach, departing the United States on March 20.
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Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
From April 24 to 28, 1933, Prime Minister R.B. Bennett visited the United States for multilateral economic talks held before the World Monetary and Economic Conference.
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Photo: Harris & Ewing · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Theodore August Heintzman, a German immigrant and experienced craftsman, worked in a piano factory in the United States before his own business there failed. Arriving in Toronto almost penniless in 1860, he built a piano in his daughter’s home and used the proceeds to start a factory. His company grew quickly into one of Canada’s longest-lived piano makers, selling across the country and abroad.
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Photo: Unknown author · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Hiram Walker, born in Massachusetts, was a successful merchant, distiller and grain dealer in Detroit by the 1850s. After Michigan adopted prohibition in 1855 he bought land across the river in Canada and built a distillery and mill that grew into the company town of Walkerville, later adding cattle finishing, a river ferry and a railway. He played an important part in western Ontario’s economic development.
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Photo: Unknown photographer; Hiram Walker and Sons archives · Photo licence: CC0 · Credit & context
Daniel David Palmer, raised in Port Perry, Ontario, was self-educated and interested in spiritualism and alternative medicine. Working as a magnetic healer in the United States, he promoted the theory that spinal alignment could restore health. Despite legal and financial setbacks, he wrote on chiropractic treatment and founded schools, and he is recognized as the founder of chiropractic.
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Photo: Unknown author · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn fled slavery in Kentucky and were arrested in Detroit in 1833; riots over their capture let them escape to Upper Canada, whose government twice refused their extradition. Settling in Toronto by 1834, they founded the city’s first cab company and worked for abolition and their community.
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Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Credit & context
Richard John Cartwright of Kingston, grandson of a Loyalist merchant, sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal for 37 years. He was Minister of Finance under Mackenzie (1873–1878) and Minister of Trade and Commerce under Laurier (1896–1904), and as a free trader he designed the Liberals’ 1891 policy of unrestricted reciprocity with the United States.
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Photo: William James Topley · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Stephan G. Stephansson, born in Iceland, settled near Markerville, Alberta, in 1889 after living in the United States. A pioneer farmer and self-taught scholar of Scandinavian literature, he published seven volumes of poetry from 1900 to 1920 and was ranked among the greatest Icelandic poets since the Middle Ages.
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Photo: Unknown photographer · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Simon Newcomb, born at Wallace Bridge, Nova Scotia, moved to the United States in 1853 and became a leading authority on mathematical astronomy at the U.S. Naval Observatory. As director of the Nautical Almanac from 1877 to 1897, his revision of lunar and planetary tables simplified nautical almanacs worldwide.
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Photo: Harris & Ewing · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Philip Francis Little, elected to Newfoundland’s Assembly in 1850, campaigned for responsible government and united the Liberal Party behind it. In 1855 he became the colony’s first premier under responsible government, and he advanced Newfoundland’s interests through the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States.
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Photo: Unknown author · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Jean-Louis Légaré, a fur trader from Quebec who came to Wood Mountain in 1870 and founded a post at Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, in 1880, was a trusted friend and unofficial spokesman for First Nations and Métis people. When Sitting Bull’s Lakota followers sought refuge in Canada, he worked with the North-West Mounted Police to keep the peace and persuade them to return to the United States.
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Photo: Saskatchewan Archives · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Guido Nincheri had a major impact on church decoration in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, mastering buon fresco, painting on fresh plaster, which was rarely used in North America, and designing many church interiors and stained-glass windows. Detained during the internment of Italian Canadians in the Second World War, he later worked in the United States while keeping his Montréal studio.
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Photo: Paul Provencher [2] (dead link) [3] (1902-1982) [4] · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs helped lead about 800 Black residents from San Francisco to Vancouver Island in 1858 and became the recognized leader of their community. Elected to Victoria City Council, he was the first Black person to hold elected office in British Columbia; an entrepreneur in mining and trade, he advocated for Black settlers’ rights before returning to the United States in 1870.
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Photo: Charles Milton Bell · Photo licence: Public domain · Credit & context