Disappointment River Quotes

“At the rendezvous, Alexander requested the top assignment: to take over Athabasca, the company’s most important and productive department, and, while Roderic ran the business in his absence, to find a path through the continent. His fellow bourgeois signed off. Alexander was on his way to find the Northwest Passage.”
― Brian Castner, Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

“Mackenzie traversed those waters via canoe, and so I planned the same. My choice involved more than historic homage; it is the perfect slow vehicle to see the country. No noise, no pollution, no trace left of your passage, yet still able to travel far enough a day to give the sense one is making progress.”
― Brian Castner, Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

“In this golden age of discovery, nothing was actually discovered. White humans stepped no place in North America that other human feet had not already trodden. But these Europeans did leave a mark, because they did two things that no one else had. They mapped the lands, and they told the rest of the world about them.”
― Brian Castner, Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage