In 1582, a Protestant clergyman and Oxford scholar, published a work entitled Divers Voyages touching the discoverie of America, which was a collection of first person accounts. Frobisher ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Queen Elizabeth put up one thousand pounds to help finance the voyage and lent Frobisher a 200-ton ship, the Ayde. He departed in the spring of 1576 ...