Scenes from Ottawa's 1st U.S. presidential visit since 2016

U.S. President Joe Biden is in Ottawa Thursday and Friday for meetings, to address Parliament and attend a gala dinner.

He is the first sitting American president to visit Canada's capital since Barack Obama in June 2016. Biden came to Ottawa later that year, toward the end of his time as vice-president.

These in-person visits have been rare since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic more than three years ago. A U.S. president stopping by is one of the more high-profileand disruptive foreign dignitary visits to the capital.

Here's what thisvisit looked like.