More Princess Marguerite Menus

Yesterday’s lunch menu pictured the Princess of Vancouver but was used on the Princess Marguerite. Today we have breakfast and dinner menus from the latter ship. The breakfast menu is the only one with a date, but they were from the same collection so I’m pretty sure they were from the same trip.

Click image to download a 325-KB PDF of this menu.

The breakfast menu is the simplest of the three, being just a card. Yet it offered as many entrées as the lunch menu. These are priced between US$1.90 and $2.50 or about $12 to $16 in today’s money.

Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu.

The dinner menu has a cover we’ve seen before on a 1951 dining car menu. I guess RMCP formal uniforms didn’t change enough in two decades to warrant a new photo. The menu has one more entrée than breakfast or lunch — nine instead of eight — and is priced slightly higher for similar sounding items. The most expensive meal is prime rib at $4.75, or about $31 today, while least expensive is an omelette for $3.00 or about $20 today.


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