{"id":31103,"date":"2016-09-12T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31103"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:38:03","slug":"harris-william-richard-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/harris-william-richard-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris, William Richard (Dean)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/William_Richard_Harris.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55341 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/William_Richard_Harris.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>William Richard<\/strong><strong> Harris <\/strong><strong>(1847-1923) <\/strong>was Irish by birth but moved to Canada at an early age, where he became a Catholic priest, eventually becoming Dean of St. Catharines Church in Toronto. His many interests included history and anthropology, which led to a compilation of some of his lectures being published as <em>Prehistoric Man in America <\/em><strong><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">1282<\/a>]+<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He believed in pre-Columbian contact with America by Europeans, citing the Italian historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori, who showed that Brazil wood was a taxable commodity at the Port of Modena as early as 1306! <sup>[p.109]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In the final chapter, he discusses the existence of Atlantis, quoting both classical and modern authors. He concludes with his belief that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic with the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cape-verde-islands\/\">Cape Verde<\/a> as its remnants.<\/p>\n<p><sup>[1282]+<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/prehistoricmanin00harruoft\/mode\/2up?view=theater&amp;q=muratori\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/prehistoricmanin00harruoft\/mode\/2up?view=theater&amp;q=muratori<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Richard Harris (1847-1923) was Irish by birth but moved to Canada at an early age, where he became a Catholic priest, eventually becoming Dean of St. Catharines Church in Toronto. His many interests included history and anthropology, which led to a compilation of some of his lectures being published as Prehistoric Man in America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,29,4853,28,58,4854,4855,4852,4851],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-azores","tag-brazil-wood","tag-canaries","tag-cape-verde","tag-ludovico-antonio-muratori","tag-modena","tag-toronto","tag-william-richard-harris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66758,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions\/66758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}