| THE THOUSAND ISLANDS BRIDGE President Roosevelt opens the Thousand Island Bridge assures Canada of US protection. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6382 |
| Catalog #: | 255146 | |
| Clip Number: | 255146-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 38/69 | |
| Timecode: | 01:44:21 - 01:45:47 | |
| Location: | USA and Canada | |
| Year Shot: | 1938 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEREMONIES: Grand Opening CEREMONIES: Honors, Honary Degree ENGINEERING: Bridges, Suspension LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: King, Mackenzie PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) | |
| Description: | THE THOUSAND ISLANDS BRIDGE. America-Canada bridge opened by Roosevelt & King United States of America (USA) and Canada. President Franklin D Roosevelt sits in an open car with Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King. They both hold one side of a pair of scissors and snip through a ribbon across the new Thousand Islands Bridge between Canada and America. They are driven over the bridge at the official opening ceremony. Roosevelt makes a speech on a platform in Canada, "This garden spot of nature, this bridge stands as an open door. There will be no challenge at the border. There will be no guard to ask a countersign. Where the boundary is crossed the only words must be "Pass, friend". " Applause. Roosevelt is made a Doctor of Law by the Canadians and in ceremonial robes makes another speech, "The dominion of Canada is part of the sisterhood of the British Empire. I give to you assurance that the people of The United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire." Cataloguer's note: I love Roosevelt! Old database record states British Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy is in this item, but I cannot see him. | |
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