President’s Holiday

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7250, 1 September 1933, Page 3

President’s Holiday

OF CANADIAN ISLAND When Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt spent a brief vacation this summer at his home on Oampobello Island, It was the second time a President of the United States had visited the dominion in his term of office. President Harding, shortly before his death, visited Vancouver, B.C. Mr Roosevelt's brief stay in the dominion called to the attention of many Canadians, who never before had heard of the place, tbo romantic story of Campobello—a small island between the coasts of Maine and New Brunswick, with settlements of fishmen and a little colony of wealthy Americans who acquired the greater part of the island from heirs of the original English owners in 1884. The settlement of Campobello—named in honour of Sir William Campbell, then Governor of Nova Scotia, was undertaken in 1766 by Captain William Owen, of Glensevcn, Wales, a gallant British naval officer, to whom the Government of Nova Scotia in 1765 made a grant of land which included that island. Captain Owen and three newphews organised a company of six teen persons, mostly Livepool merchants, and fulfilled their obligations of settlement. The orginal Owen died in 1788 bnt the island remained in the family for another century. . In 1884 the Owens, sold their Campobello property to an American svndi cate headed by Janies Roosevelt, father of the present Prensident. As a boy the President spent-happy summers on the island, and so it was natural that on a sea-going vacation ho should return to the simple and unspoiled report he knows so well.