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Campobellokăm′pōbĕl'ō, island, 9 mi (14.5 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, in Passamaquoddy Bay, N.B., Canada, just off the coast of Maine. The island passed to Canada by the Convention of 1817. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a summer home in Welchport, the main settlement, for many years. It is now preserved in Roosevelt-Campobello International Park.
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- Passamaquoddy Bay
Passamaquoddy Bay, inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between Maine and New Brunswick, at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Most of it (including Campobello island) is within Canada's border. New Brun...
- Fenian movement
Fenian movement or Fenians, secret revolutionary society organized c.1858 in Ireland and the United States to achieve Irish independence from England by force. It was known variously as the Fe...
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882–1945, 32d President of the United States (1933–45), b. Hyde Park, N.Y. Through both his father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, he came...
