Union Pacific’s 1927 Summer Tours booklet says that tours to the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Canadian Rockies were “described in a separate booklet.” This is that separate booklet. Although the front cover says only “Alaska,” page 2 adds the Northwest and Canadian Rockies.
Click image to download a 4.8-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet.
The booklet actually describes only one tour, which went from Chicago to Portland to Tacoma by train, then spent two days in Mount Rainier National Park and a day each in Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver (taking Canadian Pacific steamships between these cities). This was followed by a three-day Canadian National steamship voyage from Vancouver to Skagway. From there, passengers took the White Pass train to Carcross and a White Pass steamboat trip to Tagish Lake.
The tour then took the steamship from Skagway to Prince Rupert, where passengers caught a Canadian National train to Jasper. After two days there, the tour went by train to Winnipeg (where they spent a day) and then Duluth (over CN subsidiary Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific), where it caught the Chicago & North Western back to Chicago.
The entire tour cost $391.71 including a lower berth on trains, hotels, and meals. This is a little over $6,000 in today’s money. Passengers could save about $23 ($300 in today’s money) by sharing a lower berth.
People can take a pretty similar trip today, but they would have to take the Empire Builder to Seattle and an Alaska ferry from Bellingham to Skagway. The White Pass Route still runs trains to Carcross, though only five days a week, but it no longer has steamboats on Tagish Lake. The Alaska ferry stops at Prince Rupert, and from there a less-than-daily train goes to Jasper, connecting with another less-than-daily train to Winnipeg and Toronto. Getting back to Chicago would require going to Toronto and then taking a VIA train to Windsor and an Amtrak train from Detroit.