AN ARCTIC DISCOVERY.
- o—<?> VICTORIA ISLAND INHABITANTS. By Ti>lci;r;n>h..- Tivks AiwuMiition. OopyriprM Vancouver, Tuesday. Profesor Stofanson, of the American Museum of Natural History, has returned from the Arctic; regions. Ho announce!) tho discovery of a thousand white peoplo living on Victoria Island, near the McKcnzio river mouth. They aro believed to he descendants of Erickson, tho Norse chief, who reached Greenland in tho year 1000 A.D. Professor Stofanson found ton now tribes, some of which had neon Franklin. Tho tribes wore mostly of Norwegian origin.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 499, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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85AN ARCTIC DISCOVERY. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 499, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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