All eyes were on an island in New Brunswick on this day in 1966 as President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson met to lay the cornerstone at Roosevelt-Campobello International Park. The Park was the site of FDR’s famous summer home and is the only Presidential museum located on Canadian soil.On that historic day, Mr. Pearson and LBJ also signed a special agreement which is still in effect. The home and lands remain jointly administered by both governments and remain a monument to the unique relationship between the U.S. and Canada. That our two nations united to celebrate the life and legacy of a President, outside of his home country, is a remarkable testament to international cooperation.Over the years, FDR visited his Canadian home often. The only sad note is that it was at Campobello that he came down with polio. This did not lessen his love of the beautiful, tranquil island and he even continued to visit his Canadian summer estate during the Second World War.[caption id="attachment_580327" align="alignleft" width="275"] Franklin Roosevelt's New Brunswick home[/caption]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.