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4 The Great Fire Canoeses 79
5 Progression and Betrayalal 99
6 Steal of Empire 133
7 Canada in a Swallow-Tail Coat 179
8 The Reckoning 203

PART II QUEST FOR A NEW EMPIRE

9 On the Trail of the Arctic Fox 231
10 Killing the Competition279
11 The Nascopie Chronicles 295
12 Northern Gridlock 315

PART III MERCHANT PRINCES

13The Lords and the Good Old Boys 351
14 Trans-Atlantic Blood Feud 381
15 Canadian At Last 423
16 McGiverin's Run 465

PART IV Farewell TO GLORY

17 Young Ken 491
18 Disaster and Deliverance 529
19 Last Lord of the Bay 557
Epilogue 578
Acknowledgements 589

APPENDICES

Chronology 602
Resource People 610
Chapter Notes 616
Bibliography 640
Illustration Credits 664
Index 670
 PROLOGUE

To be a Bay man was like belonging to a religious order that now only
bottles brandy but had once touched the hand of God.

THE PRIORY AT THE DON BOIS in Essex, northeast of London at the far side of
Epping Forest, is more than six centuries old, and feels it. It was, until
the lands of the Roman Catholic Church were taken over by the state,
occupied by a devout brotherhood of Benedictine monks. Its floors slope
towards lopsided windows set three feet deep in stone alcoves; carpets are
worn thin from generations of pacing; the air seems stale and heavy, though
the visitor senses not so much decay as the weight of history.
The onl~ functioning monument to the priory's original purpose is a crypt,
below the main vestibule, that leads into an underground passageway