In 1997, Clinton bought Lewinsky a piece of Canadian art. It almost lost him the presidency

A carving Bill Clinton bought for Monica Lewinsky on a trip to Vancouver ended up at the centre of the sex scandal that threatened to have him impeached

It happened in Canada: This series, on the revolutionaries, luminaries and criminals who have visited the Great White North, was originally published in 2014

In 1923, the first time a sitting U.S. president ever set foot in Canada he made the odd decision to do it in Vancouver: A rugged, damp port city thousands of miles away from any significant bastion of Canadian political power.