Peter Cook and Neil Vallance are two editors of  “To Share And Not Surrender”.

Peter is a professor at the University of Victoria in are of pre-confederation Canadian history. His research examines the alliances forged between Indigenous nations of eastern North America and European colonies (New France in particular) in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. He is currently studying images of Native American kings in early modern English and French travel writing and their role in shaping the Europeans’ approach to intercultural diplomacy.

Dr. Neil Vallance retired in 2010 from a long career practising property law
in Victoria. In 2016 he obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Law at the
University of Victoria with a dissertation on the formation of the Vancouver
Island (or “Douglas”) Treaties of 1850–1854. He currently
undertakes ethno-historical research on Vancouver Island Treaty claims
and occasionally teaches property law at the University of Victoria.