We’ve previously seen a 1952 menu with an elevated view of Active Pass, which is a narrow channel CP ferries once passed through on sailings between Vancouver and Victoria. This menu shows the same channel from almost sea level.
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Princess Marguerite or Princess Patricia, sister ships built in 1948. Unusually for a Canadian Pacific menu, this one also has a photo on the back cover showing the Princess of Nanaimo, a slightly smaller ship built in 1950.
The ship on the front cover is either theThe menu itself was used on the Princess Louise, an even smaller and much older (built 1921) ship used in Alaska service. While most other CP Alaska steamship menus we’ve seen have photographs of Alaska on the inside cover, this one tells how Active Pass received its name (spoiler: it was named after the first ship to pass through it). The back cover tells about the Marguerite, Patricia, and Nanaimo ferries that used the pass in 1956.