Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: On Filling the Gaps xiii
6. The Huron Mission and the Promise of New France 1
7. Early English And British Expeditions In The North Atlantic Theatre 19
8. King James VI/I and the Challenge of Anglo-Scottish Co-operation 36
9. The Poet Courtier: Sir William Alexander and His Charter 53
10. The Paper Colony: Charles’s Privateers and the Proxy War 69
11. The Demands of Honour and Charles I’s Unfolding Strategy 87
12. A Man of Controversy: James Stewart of Killeith, Fourth Lord Ochiltree 102
13. Mixed Motives and the Company of Merchant Adventurers to Canada 119
14. Shifting Loyalties and the Case of the Embezzled Furs 136
15. Lord Ochiltree’s Gamble and the Abandonment of Port Royal 149
16. The Treaty of Saint–Gcrmain–En–Laye and the End of a Partnership 169
17. Epilogue: Not as Strangers 185
18. Conclusion 187
19. Notes 193
20. Bibliography 229
21. Index 239