President John F. Kennedy took time out of his schedule on this date in 1963 to celebrate Canadian-American relations. Though he could not attend the May 24, 1963 dedication ceremony for the new international bridge in person, he did record a speech to be played at the ceremony.Thanks to the work of the staff of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, you can hear the President’s remarks at this link.caption id="attachment_618490" align="alignleft" width="511" The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge crosses the St. Marys River between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario/captionArthur 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.