President Roosevelt addresses Canadian Parliament. Canadian Prime Minister W.L.

President Roosevelt addresses Canadian Parliament. Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King (right) introduces President Franklin D. Roosevelt (second from left) of the United States to the Canadian Parliament before the American President addressed this legislative body of 30,000 other Canadians on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canadian capital, on Aug. 25, 1943. At the conclusion of the Allied war conference in Quebec, President Roosevelt, the first U.S. President to visit Ottawa, warned the Nazis that 'surrender would pay them better now than later'. Left to right are: The Earl of Athlone, Governor General of the Dominion of Canada; President Roosevelt; Rear Adm. Wilson Brown, is Naval Aide and Mr. King.