Image: ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, No.17 (1914) (14799793123)

Description: Identifier: n06ontariosessional46ontauoft (find matches) Title: ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, No.17 Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Subjects: Publisher: Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ars when we understand that clusters of huts weresometimes called villages, and that as Sagard tells us in Le Grand Voyage du Paysdes Hurons, II y a des certaines contrees ou ils changent leur villes et villages, dedix, quinze ou trente ans.—There are some countries where they change the sites oftheir towns and villages every ten, fifteen or thirty years. 14 AKCII/EOLOGICAL EKPOKT. the Neutrals possessed this splendid heritage no one knows. Horatio Hale inhis Book of Iroquois Eites is of the opinion that centuries before the dis-covery of Canada, the ancestors of the Huron-Iroquois family (including theNeutrals) dwelt near the mouth of the St. Lawrence. This assumption ofthe author may be correct, and accepting it to be so in lieu of a better, a naturalincrease of the family followed and dissensions occurred. As the hives swarmed,band after band moved westward, following the southern shore of Lake Ontario,the main body of the migrants calling themselves Wendots, known early in ^v^^. Text Appearing After Image: Petun woman ridging tobacco plants. the seventeenth century to the French as Hurons, camped on the NiagaraPeninsula. Eemaining here for a period they eventually rounded the westernwaters of Lake Ontario and in course of time took possession of the GeorgianBay forests. After many years they were joined by their kinsmen the Tionnontatesor Petuns who followed the course of the Ottawa. All this, however, is only tradition, and in it there is nothing to accountfor the migrations and settlement on the north shore of T^ake Erie of theAttiwandarons of the Huron-Iroquois trunk. Dean Harris thinks that theNeutrals were among the first to leave the main body. In his lecture on the AKClJ/l^:uLU(il(JAL HKroHJ. 15 Flint Workers he says: •Kci^^ardiiii^ thoir iiiigratioji tlicic is not even a tradi-tion, but their settlement Invond tiie most westerly of the Iroquois clans andthe fact tliat they heUl alool from the Huron-froquois lends point to an earlier;ind wholly independent flitting. It is also Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, No.17 (1914) (14799793123)
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