Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Notes on Primitive Man in Ontario
As an introduction to the following notes on the ethnology and archaeology of Ontario it may not be inappropriate to devote a few pages to a consideration of the much discussed subject - Whence came the Indians? Not for the purpose of proposing any new theory, but simply to show the grounds on which claims are based by those who hold this, that, or the other view.
It is tolerably safe to assert that the great majority of those who have given the subject any consideration at all, believe the American aborigines came from Asia, by way of Bering strait. A smaller number think the migration came along a more southerly course from Japan, and others still, that many found their way hither from islands of the Malaysian group to South America and Mexico. On the other hand claims have been set up for the opposite side of the Old World as the source of population. Of these, one that has attracted much attention is based on the fabled existence of the island Atlantis, between the coasts of Africa and America, and one of the latest theories refers to a former land-connection between northern Europe and Greenland, across which the origi nal discoverers of this continent found their way, Greenland itself being at that time a portion of our mainland.
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