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Teddy Roosevelt’s Vice President, Charles Fairbanks, made history on this date in 1908 when he spoke at Quebec City as Canada, the UK, France and the United States celebrated the 300In traveling to the walled city, Fairbanks became the first Vice President to officially visit Canada while holding office. And, it would not be until 1923 that a sitting American President, Warren Harding, would officially travel to Canada.
“The eyes of the western world are upon this historic city,” Fairbanks said that day in his official remarks. “Three hundred years is but a brief period in the history of Quebec and all of Anglo Saxon America. Here has been written an interesting story. Here have been witnessed the victories and defeats of war and the blessed triumph of peace.”
“We have no rivalries except in the ways of peace,” he continued. We neither covet the other’s territory. We rest upon a common frontier more than 5,000 miles in length. It is crossed and re-crossed by instrumentalities of commerce which tended to strengthen our neighbourly ties… We have faith to believe that our flags, which grace this historic occasion and which mingle together and salute each other upon the Plains of Abraham, will never confront each other in conflict upon either land or sea.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
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