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Did you know?
Nearly 9 million U.S. jobs depend on trade and investment with Canada. The U.S. is Canada’s largest trading partner, and Canada is the most important foreign market for 35 U.S. states.
Did you know?
Canada has fought alongside the U.S. in defence of our common values through World Wars I and II, the Cold War, Korea, Balkans, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. In fact, Canadian sailors, soldiers, and aviators are embedded throughout the United States military at all levels – protecting and defending our shared continent in search and rescue operations, the interdiction of illegal narcotics, providing humanitarian assistance and supporting disaster relief missions.
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Canada and the United States share the longest international border in the world, home to millions of people and wildlife from the Atlantic to the Pacific. We are also each other’s largest and most secure energy suppliers, working together to power communities and businesses from coast to coast.
- #DYK? – Canada-U.S. Relations
- Canada and the U.S. are coming up on a century of formal diplomatic relations, which were established on December 13, 1926.
- Canada’s first Ambassador to the United States was Vincent Massey, who served in Washington, D.C. from 1926 to 1930. He later became the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada – a post that is the Queen’s representative in Canada.
- Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the first Canadian to address a joint session of Congress, on February 22, 1977.
- Canada and the United States are both founding members of the United Nations (1945), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1961), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (1989), and the World Trade Organization (1995).
- Canada’s chancery at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue was completed in 1989. It is the only Embassy located on the Presidential inaugural parade route between the U.S. Capitol building and the White House.
- The Embassy’s rotunda contains 12 pillars – each representing a Canadian province and territory when the building was constructed. The seal above the rotunda entrance represents Nunavut, which came into existence in 1999 when Canada’s map was redrawn.
- 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the Canada-U.S. border.
- Every day, approximately 400,000 people and over $2 billion in goods and services cross the Canada-U.S. border.
- Canada is the U.S.’s largest customer – buying more from the U.S. than the 28 European Union countries combined.
- Nearly 9 million U.S. jobs depend on trade and investment with Canada. The U.S. is Canada’s largest trading partner, and Canada is the most important foreign market for 35 U.S. states.