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National Geographic : 1941 May
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New Brunswick Down by the Sea Photograph by Associated Screen News. Ltld. The Stars and Stripes Flank the Flag of Canada at the Door of President Roosevelt's "Summer White House" Here near Welshpool on Campobello Island the Chief Executive has enjoyed many holidays on Canadian soil. The President's mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, has a summer home close by. Many people from the United States have vacation residences on the cool and craggy shores of Campobello, Deer, and Grand Manan Islands (page 606). Note yacht model in window at left. ing advantage of the absence of his ambitious rival, Charles de la Tour, to attack and cap ture Fort La Tour, massacre its garrison made up of his own countrymen, and carry away La Tour's wife to die in captivity. The fog sweeps down and blots out the picture. When it rises once more, the fort is gone, but in the harbor rides at anchor a fleet of sailing ships, from which are disem barking a company of men, women, and chil dren with their goods and chattels. The Loyalists have reached the end of their jour ney. Saint John is a convenient point from which to explore New Brunswick. With the aid of a map issued by the Provincial Government we gleaned the information that New Bruns wick produced such luxuries as lobsters and Buctouche oysters, salmon, trout, shad and smelts, venison, wild geese and woodcock, as well as excellent potatoes, and such other com modities as gypsum, coal, antimony, timber and pulpwood. From the chart we worked out what proved to be an attractive and very inter esting ramble around the Province. It involved a trip down the coast to Pas- samaquoddy Bay and the island of Grand Manan. Then we would come back to Saint John and go up the river to Fredericton, the Provincial capital. Again returning to Saint John, we would follow the Fundy shore to Chignecto Bay and the Nova Scotia boundary. Finally, we would travel north-through a part of the Province that has been populated by Acadian French for many generations to Chaleur Bay and the Restigouche River, where New Brunswick meets the French Canadian Province of Quebec. That was the plan, and experience proved that it was a good one. If you will study the accompanying map (page 597), you will see that we kept pretty well to the coastal regions and the valley of the St. John. There you find most of the people of New Bruns wick, as well as its most striking physical characteristics. The interior of the Province, from Frederic ton north to the Restigouche, and from the upper St. John east and southeast to the Miramichi and the Richibucto, is an almost uninhabited wilderness, a real sportsman's paradise. In this rolling and heavily wooded 599
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