The cover of this menu is meant to illustrate how narrow the channel is for some portions of the Inside Passage. The illustration makes it appear that the channel is about twice as wide as the Prince George was long, which would make it about 700 feet across. In fact, the narrowest portion I can find is the Grenville Channel, which is 1,400 feet wide.
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rainbow trout), halibut, veal cutlets, duck, roast lamb, and an omelet.
This menu is dated August 3, so was part of the same voyage as yesterday’s menu. Entrées include Alaska salmon trout (meaning steelhead, a form ofThe back cover shows one of the rivers followed by Canadian National trains between the Rockies and the Pacific Coast. It accurately notes that CN had “the easiest grades across the mountains” as Yellowhead Pass is just 3,711 feet, well below Great Northern’s 5,213-foot Marias Pass, the lowest Rocky Mountain pass in the contiguous 48 states. Early surveyors had recommended that Canadian Pacific use Yellowhead Pass, but it decided to use a more direct, southerly route, leaving Yellowhead for its future competition.