In 1948, someone took a cruise to Alaska about the Canadian Pacific’s Princess Norah and collected this menu along with several others that I’ll present in the next few days. The Norah was one of the smallest CP steamships in Alaska service, as it was only 250 feet long compared with Princess Louise‘s 317 feet, the Princess Kathleen‘s 369 feet. Only the Princess Maquinna, which was 12 years older than the Norah and scrapped in 1952, was smaller at 232 feet.
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The unpriced menu offered what amounts to a six-course meal: hors d’oeurves of the day, soup, Alaska salmon, salad, entrées of lamb’s kidney saute on toast, boiled ham, prime ribs, or stuff capon with potatoes and vegetables, and dessert.
The back of the menu has space for “Autographs” and is dated (in pencil) June 17, 1948. More than two dozen people including both crew and other passengers signed it, some of the passengers noting that they lived in such places as Juneau, Los Angeles, Pitman NJ, Portland, San Diego, Santa Barbara, St. Louis, and Tillamook.